I went to therapy once and it was awful.

I went to therapy again and it's now something I look forwards to. That first guy just sucked.

Because theres lots of bad therapists out there that pollute the field and give it a bad name.

There are absolutely good ones too, but they are very hard to find under the best of conditions, much less when you are at the lowest of lows and desperately searching for a hand to pull you up.

I've also ended up in that hole. Desperately reached out for help, and found a therapist who was glad to take my money, hinted at disbelieving science, and ultimately spent every session fluffing their own ego and not discussing my issues at all, until the end of the last session, where she finally realized i was there and said "oh, btw, you'd just get better if you stopped being a heretic and accepted god already"

Its hard to self advocate when you are at the lowest of low, much less try to go through all the headache, paperwork, cost and hastle of starting over again with another one who could be just as bad.

And even if you manage to find a good therapist, Theres a chance that the technique/approach they use might not mesh with you and help you. So now you have to find another therapist, thats good, and uses a different technique.

Its really fucking hard to do at your absolute best mental health state, much less at your deepest and darkest.

I literally just commented on the other one (the oyster-pearl comic) about my own betrayal. I did say how it shouldn't discourage someone from going, but that it just sucked to experience that

Therapy is awesome and has helped me more than I can put into words. A bad experience should never stop you from trying to better yourself, even if it makes you a little more cautious for a bit

In this comment section, we shall say: Therapy is amazing! And it's given me motivation to find a therapist again (cause I've been putting it off since I moved)

Dinosaur battles!

Quite often when I hear or see a joke I think a bit further than the surface level and ponder how that joke reflects on the image of someone in real life. Sometimes the answer is 'not good'. The same goes for things other than jokes, so it always makes sense to consider how things you encounter may affect you

When a joke isn't funny, all thats left is the material that makes up the joke. This joke wasn't funny to me, so I just see the "therapist wants to kill you" bit, which is doubly unfunny. Crazy how subjective comedy is :3

It may just have been a bad match. What he said was very generic but I couldn't help myself but transpose it into a religious speech. It could have worked if he was also talking about religion. And it creeped me out. Maybe a smart thing would have been to tell him, but I chose not to go back instead.

But yeah, I hope it's working for some other people because to me, it felt like someone was trying to get me into a pyramid scheme.

I was already a geek that used internet to escape reality nearly 30 years ago. That part hasn't changed. He wanted my to do it physically. Like, join the local Esperanto club or something like that.

And as much as he may have been right, sometimes what matters most is how it's brought up and said. It felt like he was trying to convince me to "go join them!", or more accurately "come join us!". As if it was a cult and the only natural thing to do. Just like society makes me feel in general.

What are you, a therapist?

Do we need to bring back the /s?

For some predators, cruelty is the delightful show they get with their dinner.