Series premiere of Shrinking

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A grieving therapist starts to break the rules by telling his clients exactly what he thinks. Jimmy has lost his wife and wants to try a new approach to his loss, but it is unclear how this will help others

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[oncourt]

I understand that it is important for us in therapy to come to conclusions ourselves, but sometimes I wish my therapist would just say things straightforward to me, TELL ME WHAT TO DO

[xorogueox]

Damn I was the opposite. I kept asking for tools to stop being an anxious mess and her advice was just like, “don’t worry about it!” Lady, I’m here to see you because all I do is worry. About everything all the time.

I was very much outside of her scope of practice (her focus was working with holocaust survivors), I should have searched elsewhere for care, but you know, insurance dictates who you see 🙃

[oncourt]

Advising anxious people to just "don't worry about it" is terrible advice under any circumstances, that sucks ):

I hope you get to see someone who's more aligned with what you need in the future. I did start therapy because of my anxiety and even though sometimes I want to understand things in a more direct way, she did help me a lot

[progression]

Late to this post, but wait.. she told you to not worry when you have an anxiety disorder AND she works with holocaust survivors?? Who has allowed this person to be near any of you?! Get her license revoked, tbh.

[xorogueox]

Yeah lol, she was like “what you’re doing is ‘Catastrophising’ so try not to think about it!”

“It” being all of my irrational anxieties. Before seeing psych I would just sit on the floor in the evenings trying not to cry because I felt like I was dying, or my dog was dying, or my sister was going to get sick. No one was sick or anything, and rationally I understood I wasn’t dying but like… that’s anxiety, right?

Anyway, thank you Prozac! Therapist may not have helped, but It was night and day what one little pill can do.

[iamalreadyinuse]

Watch Stutz on Netflix

[oncourt]

🤨 Will do