For those who see a counselor

[vif859]

Does your counselor/therapist listen to what you want to work on and how you want to go about things, or do they try to say that either because you are under 18 or that your brain "isn't fully mature" that your opinions don't matter

[Syvelocin]

It's hard to speak for every therapist because they're all different. I've been with professionals who are the latter and I've been with professionals who consult you on the former. TRULY good doctors will do the former, but I'm afraid there are a lot of shit people in this career field.

Pretty much why I decided at thirteen to study psychology: to be what all those therapists failed to be for me as a mentally-ill adolescent.

[Mortal Coil]

I'm fortunate enough to have a therapist who takes my opinions and thoughts into account, but I do have experience with those who don't. It sucks.

[tubanic]

Yeah I went through a few months of only seeing really crap school nurse types
But if you insist enough, you can eventually see someone proper who treats your problems as an illness and try hard to cure you
I can never forget how frustrating it was to go through five different therapists and they all say it's just cos you're a teenager and everyone goes through this and it's just hormones...

[Ryhanna]

The therapist that I'm seeing now is good. She listens to my thoughts and takes how I want to work through my issues into account, and she'll also put forth her own suggestions. The first therapist that I saw was very set in her ways and didn't seem to care much about me. It was quite frustrating, and it honestly only made my issues worse.

[vif859]

I've never had a problem with therapists talking down to me. My issue was that when I did get counseling, we got sidetracked onto general conversation as opposed to what we were supposed to be talking about a lot of times.

Or maybe since I sought couseling for Asperger's they thought that was helping, but it wasn't because I never had an issue being social with adults, only other kids

[YouMeAtSykes]

The one I saw used to just ignore what I said and say what they thought was wrong with me even thought didn't know me, but I'm sure they're not all like that