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Jul 30, 2014, 09:17 AM
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Member Since: Jul 2014
Location: US
Posts: 3,154
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This also sounds very much like the way I act... Some of it sounds very much like things I have done.. other parts are what I think, but don't express to anyone.
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Michael seemed to have much difficulty with being the patient in the doctor-patient relationship. He also did not seem to tolerate the one-sided nature of psychotherapy and eventually said, “I think I'll go and see a different therapist, one who doesn't pretend to be perfect. I've been to better shrinks than you and they didn't just listen, they also shared about themselves. You act like you're a princess and like you don't have any problems. In fact, they say that shrinks are the most mentally ill people out there. You act like I'm the mentally ill one. I'm not mentally ill.”
Michael also had difficulty in a social skills group, which was affiliated with a local hospital program and something he learned about through an advertisement on the radio. Even though joining the group was Michael's idea, he was reluctant to go because he was not convinced that he truly needed help with his social skills. Once in the group, he became more distressed and complained that he did not belong there. He became blameful and complained, “I can't believe you thought that the group would be a good idea for me. I can't believe you think I'm like them. They all have big problems...they're really messed up and I'm not at all. This makes me think that you don't know what you're doing.” He attended several more sessions with the therapist's encouragement, but reported that the other group members didn't like him. Eventually, the other group members told Michael that he acted as though he was “better than all of us.” Michael told them that he essentially felt that this was true and that he was leaving the group. The other group members did not seem upset by this news or ask him to stay. Following his exit from the group, he continually sought an apology from the therapist for thinking “that I was all screwed up like them.”
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