Today, I had an appointment with a psychotherapist. I was feeling very depressed and was telling her how I felt no one cared about me. Her phone rang and she left me mid-sentence to take a call about her new BMW. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I made an appointment with a therapist because lately I've been feeling alone and like no one cares about me. I waited at her office for about forty minutes before the receptionist informed me that she must have forgotten about the appointment. Even my therapist stands me up. FML
Today, I went to therapy. I started talking about my childhood and my life. By the time the session was over my therapist was crying. FML
Today, my girlfriend left me, saying she'd started to appreciate herself more with the help of a therapist. That I paid for her to visit. FML
Today, a therapist told me that I was too depressed to attend his depression group meetings. FML
Today, I realized it's been over a month since my last therapy session. My therapist canceled on me and never got back in touch to reschedule. FML
Today, my psychiatrist of 6 years suddenly and out of nowhere told me I need to see someone else. She gave me the equivalent of the "it's not you, it's me" speech. Actually her assistant told me via email. I basically got broken up with by someone I was paying a lot of money to talk to. FML
Today, I tried therapy to talk about my problems without feeling like i am harassing anyone. After messaging a therapist for over 2 hours, I felt way better and finally understood. It turned out I'm in such a bad mental state that I'm a danger to myself and others. Police were called by the therapist. FML
Today, after breaking down in front of my therapist over some really sensitive issues, she decided to also break down. Not about my story but about her own life. I'm not being paid to comfort and console my therapist. FML
Today, I reduced my psychologist to tears. FML
Today, I finally convinced my mum to take me to a psychologist. As soon as he sat me down and asked me how I was doing, my mum burst into tears and went on a rant about how her life is terrible and she regrets everything. I was asked to sit in the waiting room. She used up my whole hour. FML
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SaintJimmy 0
One of my friends has a T-Shirt proclaiming that they take the 'the' out of psychotherapist.
Mr_Eated 0
Totally out of line. Her phone should be off during a session. I'd let her know that you would appreciate her full attention during sessions, as you're paying a lot of money for it.
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CH33RL34D3R 0
Silly rabbit! BMW>You! XD but seriously..FYL =
mileycyruslvrrrr 0
i don't think therapists are really supposed to answer their phones unless it's an emergency call. so unless one of her patients stole her bmw, then that's just really rude. find a different therapist. i went to this one lady and somehow we got on the topic of abortion, so she showed me pictures of dead babies. i never went back. but now i have a good therapist, so go find another one. also, try reading overcoming depression for dummies. i just bought the anxiety one, and it's interesting and has a lot of good shit in it so it might help. and whoever said that no one else cares is wrong. i don't know many people who care, but i know a few. so you don't have to pay someone to listen, but therapists do help. well, the good ones help at least. and whoever said depression is your mind telling you something is wrong, being depressed and having depression are totally different. anyone can get depressed over anything and that's normal. people with depression have a chemical imbalance and their brain isn't producing enough serotonin. if he is depressed because of something that happened, he probably just needs someone to talk to and some new friends or something. but if he has depression, he probably needs medicine to help with the imbalance, and then he will still need to be in therapy too.
Jadian 4
^ This.
7man 0
thatz cold
MamaC_fml 0
Find another therapist, and report her to your local therapists group, the Better Business Bureau, and your insurance company. See if you and your insurance company will work together to refuse her bill for her lack of service - I'm sure neither you nor your insurance company want to pay for obviously crappy treatment, and you deserve better. After all, you've taken the first big step in wanting to seek help - there are too many people with depression that don't.
midnight_rain 0
Fake... I'm a therapist, its against our code of ethics to do shit like that. Either sue that bitch, or get a life and stop posting lies on FML
imeverywhere 0
i care. : )
jmeg_fml 0
wow guys, chill out. so the therapist answered the phone about her new car. that's important and a big investment, and it probably was ok for her, in that situation, to take that call. if OP feels like her therapist having other important matters in her life means that the therapist doesn't care about her, then that might be an issue to be addressed in therapy too.
TheIrishJaneDoe 9
I generally wouldn't mind my therapist taking a short call during my session; if, say, she was waiting for an estimate from a mechanic before okaying the repair. I would mind, however, if it was an especially difficult or intense session, as it seems the OP's was, and she wasn't sensitive to that. Then again, I'm in therapy because I put everyone's needs before my own. So this comment might earn me a gentle scolding.
nahnotafake 0
I am also a mental health professional. Entirely against our ethical code and not how we're trained at all. Perhaps a fake. Or someone who brings down the field a notch.
ozymandias_fml 0
YDI for not growing up. So you are boring. Big deal.