tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post113683050319374861..comments2024-03-19T14:44:41.142+00:00Comments on incurable hippie's musings and rants: Psycho-babble or Psychic Healing?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-1137008307415882322006-01-11T19:38:00.000+00:002006-01-11T19:38:00.000+00:00If you need therapy, talk to one of your friends -...If you need therapy, talk to one of your friends - that's if you have one who's a good listener. Therapy is all about what you say, not what the therapist says.<BR/><BR/>If you want real healing try Shiatsu. It's amaaazing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-1136888713459707462006-01-10T10:25:00.000+00:002006-01-10T10:25:00.000+00:00Psycho-the-rapist - hah!I recently took a counsell...Psycho-the-rapist - hah!<BR/><BR/>I recently took a counselling course at my local college, and the people there seemed to be on the course for two reasons, becasue they wanted to help themselves (ie for their own mental health) or they wanted to help other people.<BR/><BR/>It is quite probable that after the initial passion to 'do good' has waned the passion to 'make good' becomes more important.<BR/><BR/>Interesting post.TPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00483648212124828160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-1136881610422679042006-01-10T08:26:00.000+00:002006-01-10T08:26:00.000+00:00"Of course, [therapists] are making a living doing...<EM>"Of course, [therapists] are making a living doing this - if someone is paying your mortgage, it's hard to actively try to lose that income - but ethics should be paramount, not secondary to a therapist's finances."</EM><BR/><BR/>You don't often find car mechanics having this problem though... come in with a clutch that needs changing, come back to find your carburettor* has mysteriously cracked.<BR/><BR/>(*No, I don't know what one of these is.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-1136844520869000772006-01-09T22:08:00.000+00:002006-01-09T22:08:00.000+00:00Anything of interest I might want to say on this w...Anything of interest I might want to say on this would probably breach the political correctness which NHS confidentiality enforces *lol*. But I'm intrigued by the way the author sought therapy for not having a cat. I was fairly out of it when I got mine, but all it took was a trip to the local animal shelter...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6584420.post-1136839927116195522006-01-09T20:52:00.000+00:002006-01-09T20:52:00.000+00:00I think money may be a big issue in all this. I ha...I think money may be a big issue in all this. I had a very positive - trully life-changing - experience with an NHS therapist and whilst I shall not claim to be the most sane person in the world it did solve my particlar problem and I have been <I>mentally healthy</I> since.<BR/><BR/>However, in the same way that folks who go for cosmetic surgery tend to go back for more and more procedures, when the individual must pay for any given medical treatment, the culture will encourage them to do it again and again.<BR/><BR/>In the States where there is no NHS, there is often talk about people being encouraged into all sorts of procedures, drug regimes etc which are of dubious benefit. But from the medical professions perspective, why not? <BR/><BR/>Within the NHS, there are of course forces other than the best interest of the patient, but it is not such a coldly capitalist model.<BR/><BR/>Nobody ever comes to your door and says, "Well I had come to sell you some new windows, but it looks like you've already got perfectly decent ones that will last you at least another ten years or so."The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.com