It's probably onions.

[Bereta_Eder]

ECT I think is forbiden and thrown in the dustbin unless it's a terminal case

last century

when I said walk the change is that new habits are formed by doing them.
Depression is a disabilitating disease indeed so you can't just say **** you lazy ass to Lorizael and I understand. However that's the way it's done. Once you get there...

[Bereta_Eder]

Plus a female psychiatrist is a terrible idea for your situation

[Lorizael]

Plus a female psychiatrist is a terrible idea for your situation

No transference or any other psychoanalytic bull**** has occurred during the course of my therapy with her. She's hot, and that's sometimes a little distracting, but I am not in any way obsessed with my therapist. (She is not a psychiatrist.)

[Bereta_Eder]

I wasn't even thinking about that

[Lorizael]

Then what's wrong with a female psychiatrist?

[Bereta_Eder]

It is not bad per se. It's bad for you.
Not bad. I mean not optimum.
I don't have time now, I'll try to respond a bit later

[Bereta_Eder]

Ok, in short and with of course saying that that's just my opinion (right),
there's a dynamic that evolves between therapist and therapee?
Gender role in thisplays an important part.
You are in a situation where you have put Lorizael down and are just pounding and pounding him.
You're ashamed of breathing.
You're scared and ashamed of the most basic, inocent things.
As said, you're conditioned to keep beating up yourself without mercy.

And there's clearly a difficulty in developing close intra personal relationships, including the tandamount, the relationship with a particular other.

My concern is that the dynamic that needs to be formed in order to escape the abovementioned diffuclties and particularly the last one between a male therapist and you cannot be easily formed (and in your case impossible to form) with a female therapist.
And nope the scientific approach (apart the fact that psychoanalysis (and not that bull**** shortlived and inneficient cognitive approach) isn't even a hard science) doesn't overcome gender (so easily)

[Lorizael]

I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about. My therapist teaches me skills--in particular, skills for how to cope and skills for changing how I frame things. The closest we get to a "dynamic" is stuff like... she understands my sense of humor pretty well, so she knows how to prod me gently.

[ricketyclik]

Reflect upon the Serenity Prayer.

[kentonio]

Seems to me that my ex getting married wrecking me pretty well disqualifies me for a relationship. Any potential girlfriend would be rightly put off.

Not necessily. I ended up with a girlfriend once when I was inconsolable over an ex (first serious girlfriend) that she knew all about, and fixing me seemed to appeal to her. Women are strange sometimes.

[DaShi]

I'm honestly not sure what you're talking about. My therapist teaches me skills--in particular, skills for how to cope and skills for changing how I frame things. The closest we get to a "dynamic" is stuff like... she understands my sense of humor pretty well, so she knows how to prod me gently.

The proper phrasing is "...a very particular set of skills..."

[Egbert]

Either moast of you idiots have AAHZ on ignore or have not been reading my poasts the past 3 months, but let me state again that AAHZ has defeated the same insanity that Lori is struggling with now with lettuce and cheese on top. AAHZ CERTIFIED and 5150'D. And I won. AAHZ defeated that shit. AAHZ KNOWS how to defeat that shit. Yet you listen to people like Pchang. Makes AAHZ a little mad.

AAHZ knows how to help Lori. Yet Lori only knows AAHZ from 2007 and has no idea that he defeated a disease that puts most people on the streets and addicted. Either listen to AAHZ or fail.

That's really your only options at this point. Therapists wont help. Medication MIGHT help.

AAHZ WILL HELP. Your move, nutslaps.

Past quoted so those, who have AAHZ on ignore, can read it.

It is worth reading, particularly in the context of this thrade.

[ZEE]

lol I drank 9 beers before I poasted that.

Still all true though.

[Lorizael]

Not necessily. I ended up with a girlfriend once when I was inconsolable over an ex (first serious girlfriend) that she knew all about, and fixing me seemed to appeal to her. Women are strange sometimes.

Well I've got plenty of other negatives to push away that one woman deranged enough to want to fix me.

[The Mad Monk]

"Are you...Spade?"

"..."

"I never know how to answer that one..."