By ryuken23 - 14/02/2012 19:16 - United Kingdom

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
I agree, your life sucks 29 072
You deserved it 2 928

Same thing different taste

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MED_1984 7

As a counsellor/therapist myself, what happened is not appropriate. She needs to be reported to her supervisor or governing body. That way she can get appropriate support that she needs to ensure that she is helping clients, not putting them in an awkward, unprofessional situations that could actually do harm.

It seems like a lot of you aren't realizing how inappropriate it was for his therapist to do this. While it's true that sometimes it's difficult to control ones emotions, his therapist should have excused herself and left the room instead of breaking down in front of the OP like that. The OP shouldn't have to pay his therapist to listen to her cry about her problems, it's really not how it's supposed to work. The therapist obviously needs to take a leave on absence to get herself together before returning to counsel other patients.

bubo_fml 10

Most therapists are arrogant, elitist hypocrites anyways...Just look at Fraiser & his twink-of-a-brother, Myles!

#93, I agree with you to an extent. In my experience, therapists have caused more damage than they have prevented, but I am sure that that is not true of everyone - again, that's just my PERSONAL experience.

HannahWho 8

Yes, because we should take scripted shows as an example of realistic, down to earth everyday life.

The OP is right, his time with his therapist is time meant to be about him and the therapist should not have made it about them.

I never met a psych major back in college that wasn't messed up in the head and only trying to fix themselves.