Did seeing a Psychologist ever help anyone here? Or am I wasting money?

[frankfrank]

YMMV. I know that it was of great help to me during adolescence. My guess is that I would most likely not be alive now (or, for that matter, even as far back as 20 or 30 years ago)...or I would possibly be in prison.

I also know other people who were helped greatly by therapy.

And I know other people who were NOT helped by it.

 

[Taralen]

When I was in high school, I went through therapy and was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome.

Ok fine, according to these doctors and psychotherapists they consider me on the Autism spectrum, but I think I do just fine and I don't think I'm mentally ill. I think I'm a normal human being who in my position is justified to feel negative or abnormal connotations to certain gateways.

With therapy, I would prefer to talk to someone who can relate to me. Like how veterans would like to talk to people who understand why they feel the way they do. I would like to talk to someone who supports the LGBT culture. Most therapists I talked to were homophobic and or racist and I couldn't connect with them.

There was this one therapist who I really liked, she was this butch lesbian who I connected with a lot. But she later got relocated to another facility and I was given several other therapists who did not speak english that well, who were homophobic, and I could tell couldn't understand my struggles.

But anyways, I refused to take the medications, and I wasn't having thoughts of harming anyone, and they said I no longer have to go to therapy, and I didn't. I graduated HS just fine.

I do have a close family member that does go to therapy and she seems to enjoy so.