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Originally Posted by just_some_girl
I find it strange that a therapist would say something like that. Without hearing it in context it's hard to say, but it seems rather flippant. Besides, we know that depression can affect anyone, even those who have good jobs, friends, and relationships. People who from the outside look like they have the 'perfect life' and 'everything going for them' have still been known to kill themselves. Suicidal depression doesn't just affect the poor & lonely & single (although, being poor and lonely and single doesn't help matters, I gotta say...) and not everyone who's poor or lonely or single is suicidal. You have to be happy inside. Psychologically balanced. No amount of money can buy that, and you can't put it all on someone else (eg; a spouse) to 'save' you, either...
It's one thing for a therapist to agree that you're not in a very good situation or that she wouldn't like to be in your shoes - it's quite another for her to say if she were you she would want to kill herself. I wouldn't find that kind of comment helpful, and I think I'd have to tell her so, personally... like, shouldn't your T be getting you to look to the positives, or be helping you find that ray of light or hope or whatever to get you through these hard times? She should be encouraging you to hold on, not give up. IMO.
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You've pretty much summed up my thoughts. That why I find her comment bizarre in some ways, and it makes me question her own mental stability.
Maybe she's depressed herself and she's expressed her thoughts to me?