<p>I went to my first counceling appointment today, and already hate the woman. My goodness, I've never met a more redundant person in my life. She's annoying and obnoxious, and half the time I was having a hard time getting in my answer. She's relating everything back to my dad's death, when that isn't what's up. It's ****ing me off. </p>
<p>I know I should give it a few more appointments but I can see this as being hell already.</p>
<p>Not to get into your private life, but why do you need a therapist? I wouldn’t go to one unless I had some kind of court order. :)</p>
<p>I had a therapist back in 9th grade because my mom thought I was going to start selling out. (and I totally wasn’t gonna!) The guy just nodded his head and said “yes,” even though I didn’t have much to say.</p>
<p>There is no such thing as a good therapist. FYI.</p>
<p>I’ve yet to meet a counselor who wasn’t annoyingly redundant.</p>
<p>I have super high anxiety issues and things from my past that I haven’t dealt with that tend to haunt me.</p>
<p>Plus, my teachers all agree it would be good to get me tested for a learning disablity or two, and without the counselor’s word, the school won’t do it.</p>
<p>It’s really none of the school’s business…is it?</p>
<p>And your teachers have no right to tell you that you possibly have mental problems.</p>
<p>What kind of crazy school do you go to?</p>
<p>I talked to the teachers. I have been having a hard time with my work (Not the difficulty of the work, it’s hard to explain actually.) and have had several breakdowns at school. I’m seeing about getting tested so I can get a 504 plan to get extended time on tests/projects.</p>
<p>Been there done that.</p>
<p>Although the idea of a therapist seems good in theory, I’m not sure how effective seeing one would be. Wouldn’t it be uncomfortable discussing personal things with them?</p>
<p>I honestly don’t care. Confidentiality rights are nice since I’m neither suicidal or planning on doing harm to anyone else.</p>
<p>I hated my therapist too. I begged my parents for a new one. My brother is a teacher and he has to assign a lot of his students to therapists, since he’s working in DC public with I guess “special needs” children. They’re not the regular kids, but by special needs I don’t mean exclusively below 85 IQ or whatever. What I’m trying to say is my brother thought she sucked too.
Now I just don’t go. It was pointless anyway, especially because the person I had the issue with didn’t believe in therapy and I refused to talk.</p>
<p>Okay.</p>
<p>So, my mom has forced me to see a therapist since I was six. I’m now 17. I’ve had several. Why you may ask? My mom wants to improve our relationship. Yeah.</p>
<p>Anyway, I generally would have to agree with the statement about them being obnoxious. Especially with the kids on this forum who are generally smart kids, it may seem like you’re talking to an idiot. There are definitely are more bad therapists than good ones. Sometimes it seems they just care about getting paid. </p>
<p>However, there are some therapists I have met that are totally chill. They’ll listen to you and give you input. But that’s hard. If I was you, I’d make appointments with about 5 therapists (like 15 minutes) to get acquainted, and then make a decision.</p>
<p>The best therapist may be like a best friend, except you don’t have to worry about your best friend carrying around your baggage. Also, sometimes therapists will be able to give you a perspective that is not biased as one would be if they were your friend. Either way, whatever works and keeps a person safe and happy, ya know? :)</p>
<p>^ I love that idea, and I’d love to do it, but getting my mother to set up this appointment (EG Make sure our health care works right, that the payment plan works for her, that it’s close enough for my mother’s taste since I can’t drive, that they don’t charge to much for my mother’s taste with health care accepted, etc.) was hard enough. I’d do it myself, but my mom can be a ***** about this, even if they accept our health care with a fairly good co-pay and what-not, she won’t accept it. </p>
<p>Actually, there was a specific place/counselor I wanted to see, but my mom wouldn’t call. She’d only go by what my idiotic guidence counselor suggest. (The woman could walk off a cliff without noticing.) Because remember children, adults will always no best, no matter what you say and/or would perfer and feel more comfortable with. </p>
<p>I don’t want to tell my mom I’m already done with it, and that I can’t stand the woman after all the work I did to get her to call, but I really don’t want to go back. I should just suck it up a few more times and make sure though.</p>
<p>Yea, it seems like there are too much uncontrollable events to focus on getting back on track, but now is a good time to focus solely on what you want. Maybe you don’t even need a counselor. You can look up information on colleges, study skills, and tests yourself and only request forms and materials from your counselor. Yup… it’ll take lots of discipline. </p>
<p>Anyway, your counselor sounds lazy. She forces you to think about things you can’t control, and does nothing to help you move on. You ought to give her the cold shoulder and show how successful you can be w/out her help. :-)</p>
<p>^ No, that’s C4.</p>