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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
My session lasted all of ten minutes since I walked out before she could come up with a response.  I will probably get a new shrink from the practice, but who gives a crap.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
People are starving all over the world while others waste enough food in a year to feed a small village for 10 years.

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ORIGINAL: stella41b
I don't know what to advise here, other than suggesting that extreme caution perhaps should be taken around root vegetables.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Today was my second of two sessions every week with the Psychiatrist, here after referred to as shrink lady.

Shrink lady has been trying for months to get me to explain why I have a devote dislike for the human race in general, although I do make exceptions, and most of them happen to be members of these boards.

I finally decided, because I was in one of those moods, to explain why that is so.

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ORIGINAL: jlf1961

Today was my second of two sessions every week with the Psychiatrist, here after referred to as shrink lady.

Shrink lady has been trying for months to get me to explain why I have a devote dislike for the human race in general, although I do make exceptions, and most of them happen to be members of these boards.

I finally decided, because I was in one of those moods, to explain why that is so.
So, I said:
"The reason is simple, after spending time wondering around this rock and seeing what humans have a nasty habit of doing to each other, and I am referring to more than just war, I decided sometime ago that the majority of the human race really is a waste of space.
People are starving all over the world while others waste enough food in a year to feed a small village for 10 years.
And of course we have those holier than thou bible thumpers who claim that cancer, aids, poverty, drought, plague and everything else they can think of as punishments from heaven, when a number of these same bible thumpers are screwing around on thier wives, or worse.
Finally, there are these wonderful psychiatrists and therapists that have just as many if not more mental hang ups as their patiants, such as a certian young shrink with 36 c cups who goes braless wearing silk shirts and keeps her office ac set at sub fucking artic.
And, in truth, she probably needs some guy to screw her silly so that she isnt such an uptight bitch of a tease."

My session lasted all of ten minutes since I walked out before she could come up with a response.  I will probably get a new shrink from the practice, but who gives a crap.


Now, for all those people who have totally opened their mouth and spoke their mind in the most undiplomatic way possible, this thread is for you.  This includes military types who found a way to tell their CO he was the biggest asshole on the planet in such a way the CO couldnt figure it out until it was way too late to do anything.

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ORIGINAL: SummerWind


Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays....

jlf - A few suggestions.....go visit a group home for people with Autism and observe what the volunteers and low paid staff do for a day.  Do the same thing at your local orphanage, hospital burn unit and aids clinic.

Volunteer yourself for Habitat for Humanity, a soup kitchen or Meals on Wheels.

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ORIGINAL: LaTigresse



Pure and simple, I am an unsociable bitch at times.

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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire
stick to smart-ass wisecracks and harassing you...

oh the JOY of it all

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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire

Ok, while I don't think that what jlf said to the therapist was right, I have a question that sort of relates to the OP.

If someone is living quietly by themselves, minding their own business and keeping to themselves, knowing they don't really like people, why do we expect them to get therapy and change? To "make happy" and conform to society's expectations? I'm not talking about the psycho killer who goes postal at the mall eventually, or the cult holed up with more arms and ammo than the local national guard that thinks everyone is out to get them but that quiet person 20 miles out of town that prefers their solitude and animals, is unfailingly polite and quiet when they do come into town, that type.

I don't mind admitting that I'd rather spend time quietly at home with Lumus than go out to a club or bar. I also have very few close friends, though I know quite a few people. It's just the way I am. (Don't snicker too loud, holly, I can hear you from here!)  So why do we think that people need to change if they don't like people? Unless they're a danger or a threat? Then I could understand....

Ideas? Thoughts?

"The more I know about people, the more I love my cat." - bumper sticker

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ORIGINAL: LadyRainfire
Edited for clarification (I hope.) That a person would seek help if needed (or wanted) to deal issues they may have. Or attend court-ordered therapy as required. However, as I've seen in the past personally, I've talked with one counselor who I went to deal with one issue and this therapist kept wanting to get off on other issues that she wanted to talk about. They weren't bugging me but she insisted that they just had to be and I needed to talk about them. She didn't like it when I kept saying that they weren't bugging me, that I had gotten over them.

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly
we all are, LaT...
It is human nature that we isolate even though so many try to deny it. Think of what i dub "wounded animal syndrome". An animal that is wounded will isolate. Our wounds, either physical or emotional cause the same reaction. And a "wound" can be something as simple as feeling overwhelmed, needing down time, etc.