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Originally posted by valkyrie
That sounds like an exceptionally closed-minded thing to say, and I wonder how you formed such an inaccurate impression of psychiatrists. I agree with everything HotDamnImAPhiMu said, and I'll add that the point of a psychiatrist isn't to "act like they care" but to diagnose and treat you, just like any other doctor. Would you not seek treatment for cancer because your oncologist is paid to "act like they care" about your treatment?
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It's just the distrustful part of me. I could never trust them, especially at the cost. Just how I am. As far as physical stuff goes...that's something that can be traced and solved and physically manifested to me. But someone saying to me that my depression is because my dad didn't love me enough or some crap just wouldn't fly with me. I'm not saying that physchiatric treament doesn't have merits, of course it does, but just not for me.
And as far as the kick ass chicks I met on my Outward Bound trip...they just showed me that being ridiculous and happy was easy if you just took things one step at a time and took the time to look around and realize that there's a whole world out there for me, and there's life after high school. It changed my perspective on life (dangling from a rope about 500 ft above a canyon floor does that to you...after the initial panic you look around and go..."This is REALLY COOL!") . And I really look at that as a metaphor for my life so far...while things might really suck and really be terrible, there's so much out there that you can look at and go "This is REALLY COOL!" even though it sucked and took hard work to deal with.