All the rotten apples

I’ve found from personal experience that there are .. a lot.. of rotten apples in the mental health field.

Put together, those experiences, and others I’ve read about...are very offputting for me to seek “help”.

When the “help” actually harms more than helps. For those of us who were “raised” by disrespectful, abusive people ..then reaching out for “help” as we “should” we find more of the same..

It reminds me of a cottage I rented. It was full of fleas

Later on I phoned the old witch to complain. She said “you brought the fleas with you”



I do not trust “people”.

I wish I could move to a place where ...

But “people” are everywhere

I feel like deleting this (if I could move on from being me then I would.)

Thankfully, I've met fewer rotten apples in mental health. Regrettably, even the "good" apples have been little help.

I wish I had better insight into remaining oneself while detaching from the agony of being oneself.

in my experience, "good" apples, are so difficult to find (mental health or otherwise)

world we live in, I guess

we can't change where we live

I've found that being able to ask for recommendations has helped. Obviously you have to know who to ask and it's not a guarantee, but if you have local friends who also have mental health issues with whom you can discuss the matter, it might be worth asking them who they see (or if there's anyone they've had a terrible experience with who you should avoid)

Local support groups are also a great way to find people with similar issues who might have recommendations.

The Mental Health field still has such a long way to come. Not enough workers, underpaid, and to many clients needing help. I have found it helpful to do as much research possible on my own issues to aid in my treatment. I do think there should be more wrap around treatment between psychiatrists and therapists. There just needs to be better help before the client gets to the point of needing to go to a hospital and then also for long term care after a client leave the hospital or leaves a specific practice. I have had psychiatrists that I have stopped seeing and never received any follow up calls making sure I was ok and still getting the medication I needed.

My advice would be to be very assertive with the professionals you are working with. Knowing as much as possible so you cant be pushed around. Never take a med without doing research on it and getting other opinions.

I am by no means cured of my psychiatric disorders — and some are not even under control — but my experience has been that the majority of mental health professionals have been very good and wise and kind in their specialties. They saved me a couple of times.

I’m having a hallucinatory return of an old adversary just now. I see my shrink/therapist Tuesday.

Not sure about you, but I need people in the mental health fields. I have felt much more compassion in the mental health fields than in the physical health fields. So many times I’ve been knocked out, cut upon, and awakened in surgical ICU without meeting the surgeon. And he pops in at 7 the next morning with a 5-minute explanation of his experience and findings. It’s a big ugh to find an empathetic cardiologist than psychiatrist.

I think that there are more bad eggs in a pool of physical health specialists than in psychiatric fields.