Reply To: I "Fired" My Therapist

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I have decided to never ever go to therapy again, unless the therapist is an ADHD-expert of some kind.

In early 2012, I was diagnosed with depression. (This was before the ADD-realisation.) The first counselor (not sure how to translate the Swedish word “kurator”) I met told me to take a walk outside between 10-2 in the day and to immediately stop writing about my depression online.

Called her answering machine and asked to be transfered to someone else the same night.

Counselor number two was into codependency, and decided that that was my problem. It really wasn’t. I went a few times, but the last time I didn’t have the energy to engage, and he was kind of put off byt that. When the next appointment came I cancelled due to a migraine or something and never got a new one. Which was just as well.

After that, I was put into group counceling. That was kind of nice, but only because I got interested in some of the other participants’ problems. Some others bored me to death. This one man kept whining about how the roof of his house needed to be fixed, which drove me mad.

Right now in Sweden, CBT (Cognitive behavioral therapy) is the magical answer to every imaginable mental health issue. I don’t believe in it, and especially not for me. On my angrier days I think of CBT as therapy for the large masses who cannot think for themselves. (Hope I don’t offend anyone now!)

 

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