Thread for Things That Made You Frown Today

[Suppressed Poet]

You misunderstand what a therapist does (and in possibly related news, how endoscopies work). Unless they are also a psychiatrist they do not prescribe medication, in the same way that a physical therapist can't prescribe you pain killers unless they are also a medical doctor.

I would wager your objections to therapy are 100% religious (albeit not having anything to do with Christianity), which is why you have concocted these obviously flawed rationalizations.

I used therapist in the general sense, but yeah good point.

Nope - not religious. I have two real experiences with therapy as you describe it. I had to sit in an Al Anon class at Hazelden for a week (family member suffers from alcoholism). I just sat there and heard a bunch of whiners cry and kept quiet. Absolutely hell on earth. The second was a relationship therapist, who pointed out I was a big arogant asshole in my failed prior marriage. While it was 100% true, that's not what I wanted to hear at the time. And in all fairness, my former titty bang wasn't exactly a saint either. I guess that one did kind of help a little after the fact. I'm less of an asshole than I was then. The PC isn't a great representation of how I really act / seem to the outside world.