Nono... Kathy! :o(

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It's okay Laurie...as I said in my p.s. to you...I've met you and know you

don't have a mean bone in your body...I really do know this about you

Laurie.

I have some real experience with what can happen with the " so-called "

knowledge in the wrong hands and how it can ruin people forever. I also

know that there are some really good professionals out there, I have one

that I see. I worked at a homeless shelter and also some really bad things

happen when people end up the wrong hands, and what happens in the right

hands.

I know from your previous notes to the list (as I said before) that you are

very happy with the professional you see as I am with the one I saw.

Really Laurie, I just wanted you to know that I do see the benefit and hell

they can cause. I was referring to the way some delve into your life and

try to make problems appear where there aren't any, how they take what they

learned in school and don't apply practicality to it; using catch

psycho-babble terms that they memorized from books (ie: " and how does that

make you feel? " , " what do you see as the envious part of your feelings " ) and

how they sometimes use their patients as guinea pigs with their treatment.

Not caring about the person they're treating; nor seeing the person as a

person, only caring about their own school of thought and how many people

they can get in and out of their own office. Guess that's why this

profession has the highest suicide rate...

Kathy

Nono... Kathy! (

I didn't mean for what I wrote to make you feel as though I was calling

" you " sad. Gosh, heavens Kathy, that's the very last thing I want to do is

insult you that way. I am so very very sorry!

(Bear with me here, I am trying to think of how to say this the right way.)

Psychologist are trained to analyze your perceptions of the world as you see

them, and to try to help you see things in a better way. All our answers

are within us. They are our mirrors. They aren't all tiny Freudians or

Skinners. Personally, I thought Freud was the laugh of the classroom.

Maybe he had some kind of point to his theories, but, I think he was quite

looped! Now you go on to say that your therapist is great. Well, I guess

that is a good thing then. I read your statement and it made me very

defensive towards my therapists I guess. I would hate to have anyone think

of her that way because she's a psychologist. Then again, she doesn't

conduct herself quite the way others do, and she has said that herself. So,

maybe I hit the jackpot and got the " special " one. I have been to one

psychiatrist years ago. I can recall the MD side of him coming out opposed

to the 2 psycs that I have seen.

Anyway, I am starting to ramble here. I wish I knew how to take back what I

said. The part that I thought was " sad " was the fact that it seemed as

though your thoughts were so against psychology that you wouldn't see the

benefit of it. Because I feel it is a very helping profession. Oh God

Kathy.. i feel as though I have said something really bad...

I am sorry. ((

Laurie

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