XPost: sci.psychology.misc, alt.support.depression   
   From: ckraft@SPAMTRAP.west.net   
      
   On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 21:57:55 +0200, ProfQ    
   wrote:   
      
   >marcia wrote:   
   >> On Oct 2, 9:31 am, ProfQ  wrote:   
   >>> Hello, I guess you get thousands of e-mails, so I will be patient for a   
   >>> response. A Counselling Psychologist (MSc Hons) says I am a   
   >>> "pseudo-intellectual with delusions of grandeur". I have taken this as a   
   >>> personal affront and an insult, but it has also made me think that   
   >>> perhaps these academics have a modicum of intelligence beyond my own,   
   >>> and he may be right. Personally, I would prefer to take the word of my   
   >>> plumber or electrician over his, and disregard his malicious comments   
   >>> with the contempt they deserve.   
   >>>   
   >>> I am not interested in counselling. I merely wanted to share this with   
   >>> someone and obtain an objective response.   
   >>>   
   >>> Thank you.   
   >>   
   >> What kind of objective response? I don't see any questions in your   
   >> post.   
   >>   
   >> If you think the psychologist is FOS, that's your prerogative. Get a   
   >> second opinion from another psychologist, psychiatrist, plumber or   
   >> electrician if the issue is important to you. If not, remember the old   
   >> adage, "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never   
   >> hurt me."   
   >   
   >Thank you Marcia for your kind response. I did not ask any questions,   
   >you are correct, and since my writings do not appear in these groups, it   
   >was certainly unfair of me to ask a group like this for an assessment of   
   >a paragraph. I do feel that psychologist is FOS as he is my brother in   
   >law and all my inlaws on that side of the family are FOS. It was unfair   
   >of me to expect anyone to answer that, but I was hoping that someone may   
   >have given me an academic response ... you see ... it's like this. If   
   >one person says he's FOS and the other thinks he isn't, ... that type of   
   >scenario.   
      
      
   I'd say you are wrong for going to a councilor with whom you are in a   
   family relationship.   
      
   What goes on in the counseling session should stay there, and what   
   goes on inside the family should stay there as well (if only)   
      
   Mixing them is looking for trouble.  Find someone else, you might get   
   an objective opinion.   
      
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