higher power

Another one was a 12-step grad who crossed me when he started preaching about his higher power. i asked him not to mention his higher power to me any more. i guess i didn't do this respectfully enough. something about the way i said it cut through his professional facade and he flashed. "do you realize," he said, "that you're talking about something that saved my goddamn life?" i felt bad on a basic human level and apologized, but i also couldn't find any way i could continue seeing him after that.

I don't think those guys were bad shrinks, they just weren't the right shrinks for me. and i'm loath to participate in any enterprise to discredit practitioners of psychiatry and psychotherapy, or to persuade people not to look to them for help. to do this is to disrespect a huge community of people who have been helped or are being helped by going there, and to do a disservice to people who could be helped but won't be because their fear and prejudices are bolstered by mischievous enterprises like yours.
-- Anonymous