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Offended:
Although I find it distasteful, the website itself, that is not what I am  offended by. What is offensive is bringing it here, displaying it here, your website, along with your signature. At the least, I find it an indelicate way to introduce yourself.
You lack credibility to me. I find it hard to believe you didn't think it wouldn't bring comment.

Offended:

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Now how about the *actual content* of my original post? Or did you even read it? Not that it matters. I'm not here to debate people.
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The fact we haven't moved past yout signature and website ought to clue you in to something. It negates any credibility elsewhere...

And I did address it in the first post, dig deeper. Have a more discerning eye.

AnotherVoice:
I thought displaying the sig. file and site link was distasteful and tacky. Like the other person, it wasn't the content (live & let live I believe), but just the fact that it was displayed.

I also wondered if it was an attempt at free advertising, because the site has a paid membership area.

Anyway, you've removed them now, and so maybe it is just time to move on from things.  

If you don't care then fine, but in future you might want to be more careful about it if you want to avoid these kinds of problems.

Anonymous:

--- Quote from: TruthSeeker ---At this point, I would describe myself thusly: I strongly believe in truth, in treating people around me the way I would like to be treated, and doing my best to contribute something positive to the environment around me, in the naive hope that it might get passed along to others and maybe even come back to me eventually (you know, good karma).
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Then it's good that you removed that link because it wasn't going to help anyone. Maybe you can explain your motives in putting up such a link since common sense says would only be upsetting and provocative.


--- Quote ---I called this individual and left a message to be called back. She called and talked to  my father, who presumed to speak for me (as he tended to do) and told her that I wasn't interested.
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A therapist is not supposed to talk to anyone except the person who left her a message. Talking to your father already broke confidentiality. She has boundary problems. I hope you found a better therapist.

bunny

Anonymous:

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--- Quote from: TruthSeeker ---I called this individual and left a message to be called back. She called and talked to  my father, who presumed to speak for me (as he tended to do) and told her that I wasn't interested.
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A therapist is not supposed to talk to anyone except the person who left her a message. Talking to your father already broke confidentiality. She has boundary problems. I hope you found a better therapist.

bunny
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Interesting. I had never thought about it in those terms (of course, that incident occurred nine years ago). She was leaving a message for me (actually, she was returning my call). Generally speaking, when I try to reach someone by telephone who isn't available and end up leaving a message, I tell the person on the other end who I am, who I'm trying to reach, what I'm calling about, how I can be contacted and when I'll be home or available. It never even occurred to me that even that much information (i.e. what I had called her about) could be considered a breach of the therapist/client relationship (of course, I was not yet a client of hers at the time, I only had inquired about making my first appointment). But given the world we live in today, for example, how easily realtors can get in trouble just because of the way they phrase something to a customer, that doesn't surprise me at all. Unfortunately, I never did find another therapist, unless you count the psychaitrist I've seen more recently whose answer to everything seems to be "take a pill." (Am I correct that in general terms, *psychotherapists* mostly deal in "talk therapy" and *psychaitrists* or MDs primarily deal with the medical side of things?)

I've felt very uneasy with this psychaitrist, who I mostly deal with for my prescription (only one; I've resisted his suggestions to get me to take more drugs). The first time I went to see him, I told him I had been reading about ADD (attention-deficit disorder), which I'd been told I had when I was around five years old (at that time, it was commonly known as "minimal brain dysfunction"). I had read a few books on the subject and felt like a lot of the symptoms and characteristics they described (for instance, in the book "You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid Or Crazy") were things I'd been experiencing for years. I was quite intrigued to read that medicine could help with a lot of these issues. Just like the night my friend referred me to my therapist nine years ago, I thought this was a rather "unconventional" idea, I'd never tried it before and I had no reason to think that it would or would not help me, but I was willing to give it a try. I looked this guy up on the recommendation of the mother of a woman I was dating at the time (which raises some credibility issues, given some things I experienced with her and her family later, but that's a whole other story; for the record, the woman I was then dating was sufering from manic depression). It turned out his office was less than a mile from me in the hometown where I had grown up. He'd gotten a glolwing recommendation, and I'd been told he had been very helpful in discussing things and talking things out, and getting to the root of her issues...but when I went to see him, there were a couple of "red flags," and he basically asked me a few questions and then prescribed the stuff for me. I thought that just seemed too easy, and I was uncomfortable with his tendency to suggest I should take more drugs. I mentioned this to the woman I was dating at the time and to her mother (who was an RN) and the mother seemed to become very indignant, telling me I should not question what my doctor says because he is an expert in his field and that's what I'm paying him to do, and I should trust him...just remembering that, I'm thinking of how the woman I was then dating was taking about a dozen prescription drugs a day...it was a seriously messed up situation, but that's a whole other subject altogether. The guy seemed like a "quack" to me, but as I said before in my original post, since I have been on the stuff, it seems to be helping, so I'll count my blessings. In terms of really sitting down and seriously talking about what's going on in my life, though, the guy's useless.

Have a great day.

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