any therapists on here?

by bigdreaux 38 Replies latest jw friends

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  Twitch

  If you doubt me, next time someone asks a "should I have sex/marry/fire/hang-glide/sing/preach/format/wear/work/eat/dangle" sort of question, just watch the answers tumble like seagulls at the flencing knife.

  Damn, I guess I'll have to go elsewhere for real advice. Is there another forum for help in such matters?

  Someone once told me the value of therapy depends on how much you pay for it (ie free advice isn't worth a damn). But I was told this on the web,....lol

  Someone also told me once that most intro psych students are there to understand and fix their own problems. The graduates have real issues, lol. From my limited exposure to psychologists, I might agree except for the fact the pros don't shoot down prospective clients. Unless they themselves get a kick out of it.

  I've known psychologists who are theists and those who are atheists. Had a problem with them until I realized it wasn't about which one of them was right, it was about what was right for me. Then things began to click.

  Then again, if I believed everything people told me, I'd still be at the hall.

  LOL
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  Anony-Mouse

  Psychology is fun.
  
  I have an invisible Psychology degree, wanna see?
  
  
  
  
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  bigdreaux

  are you kidding me mouse? the brain isn't complicated? wow.
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  Bumble Bee

  If it's something you are seriously considering, why don't you make an appointment with a career counsellor? It's definately something worth exploring.

  Good luck!

  BB
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  free2think

  I'm a complementary therapist, is dat de same ting?
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  bigdreaux

  bumble bee, my friends mom is a therapist, and she said she'd sit down with me and decide what course to take.
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  Anony-Mouse

  I havn't run into any situation where a sane person's actions couldn't be explained, with enough information of course :P .
  
  
  Maybe I'm being egotistical in suggesting I'm any good at it, but I think I am!
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  Lady Lee

  Hi

  I got your PM a couple of days ago but this is the first time I have been able to log on long enough to post something. I will answer your PM here in case others are interested.

  First, if some opf you have seen the videoyou saw the video. It wrongly states that I am licensed. I'm not.

  Because I clearly knew what I wanted to do when I graduated, all my profs in college and university allowed me to specialize and choose topics around some form of abuse (back then I was interested in mainly sexual ause issues). That was great for me.

  I took cources in Human Sexuality in both Psychology and Sociology. In a History of Psychology I wrote a paper on Virginia Woolf and how incest shaped her character to the point of suicide. For a Philosophy course on Ethics I wrote a paper on JWs and the blood issue (actualy a topic in the course textbook). For a course in Relgion course on Death and Dying I wrote a paper on how disfellowshipping is a form of social death. For a course on Speech I gave 3 speeches about various forms of abuse. For a Social Service course on Family Dynamics I wrote a paper on the impact of incest on the family.

  I did this with almost all of my courses. Later it was the best thing for me. I got the experience of looking at problems from different angles. y the time I graduated college I had a pretty good idea how different aspects of one problem had many sides to it.

  There was, however, a real gap in fitting spiritual abuse (as in cults), fit into the issues important to Sociology and Psycology. I ttook a while for me to realize the issues were the same just on a much bigger scale - groups of people rather than individuals. Sociology touched on the group part but the overlap to Religion. Relgion dealt with many issues but finding courses that deat with cults was non-existent (1985-94)

  I would have loved a course that allowed me the freedom to blend the various fields of study.

  After I graduated I had the opportuntiy to be a guset speaker in various programs nursing, med school, (both about treating incest victims), Management/Group Dynamics (cults or high control groups) Social Service, (family dynamics, medical issues, etc)

  Sometimes I had to be very creative to help me address what I thought was important if I was to work with abuse survivors and also meet the criteria of the course - like the paper on Virginia Woolf (when I told the prof that I wanted the write about her and groaned - not another -- until I explained the paper wa about how abuse affected her life and writings - his ears picked up with that one and he OKed it)

  If I was to start over or go back to do my Masters, I would try to focus on the study of group dynamics of sociology, and psychology, as well as religion and perhaps anthropology. There is definitely more info on cults than there was back in the late 80's to early 90's but it all seems to be on the side of religion. I would want to do more study of the powerful role religion plays in both individual and group dynamics.

  If you decide to go for it make sure you have the room to research your interests knowing what your goal is. You can't do it with every course or even every paper in a course but the more you research the areas you are interested in the better you will be to do the work you want.