My psychologist eats things out of his hair in session

[mdmc]

Good weekend DU!

I used to see a psychologist on a weekly basis. Sometimes, my psychologist would play with his hair. He would "pick" something out of his hair, examine it in his fingers, then eat it. So very bizarre.

He did this more than a couple times...

What do you make of this, DU?

[skygazer]

1. Your psychologist is a gorilla

It's as simple as that. Consider yourself lucky - the last shrink I saw informed me that I needed to "put my problems in god's hands."

I'd rather have the gorilla.

[Skittles]

2. ok that is just f***ing disgusting

I would not take advice from that yahoo

[beam me up scottie]

3. That he was related to

Wolfie the comb-licker?

[ladjf]

4. If you didn't walk out instantly, you really need help.

Your Dr. is a sick man, not to mention ,too gross to be tolerated.

ladjf, MSW

[mdmc]

12. I thought that he may have done it on purpose,

as part of the treatment...

[Glenda]

15. If that was part of the treatment... what was he trying to treat?

Your phobia of lice eating?

[MichiganVote]

5. I'd say you bought him an expensive dinner

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Your psychologist is in need of a good shrink.

:hi:

[Jamastiene]

7. Sounds like a typical shrink to me.

I once had one that wore pajamas and furry slippers to our sessions. He was a guy too. I have always said and will always say that shrinks are crazier than the people who get sent to them. And that's just what I make of your story. I've had a thought of starting a web site where people JUST tell stories of how crazy their shrinks are. There's something interesting about that phenomenon. I've been through tons of shrinks and they all seem pretty much to be the biggest nuts out there, even nuttier than I am. Nuttier than me? Now that's an amazing feat.

[-..__...]

8. By coincidence, have you been scratching your scalp a lot?

[rug]

9. My psychologist pulls things out of his ass during a session

and expects me to buy it.

[autorank]

10. Bad form indeed, at least he didn't pick anything else.

[sakabatou]

11. Ew

Just ew.

[jdj]

13. that's O/C behavior.

god that is freaky.

I had a friend who did cocaine with her Dad and his friend all the time and the friend would pick his scabs and eat them.

So either that shrink is an obsessive compulsive, or maybe he's gone on drugs or something.

[Floogeldy]

14. Transference

YOU were the one eating hair thingies.

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[Dookus]

16. I think shrinks are all crazy

I saw one for awhile who was definitely nuttier than I am. He was married, with like 6 kids, and all he wanted to talk about was where I went and what I did as a gay man - and my reason for seeing him had NOTHING to do with being gay.

Then he started talking about having been to bars I'd been to and the like and I realized he was trying to come out to me. It was disturbing.

I found a counselor I liked a lot better - she wasn't a doctor, but she helped me talk things out in a few months and then it was over. But at least crazy gay married doc could write prescriptions...

[BlueIris]

17. I've known some pretty MESSED UP shrinks, but

for the official record, the ONLY MD-holding members of the medical profession I've had good experiences with, and I mean, these people were EXCELLENT, were psychiatrists. The one I saw when I was nineteen TOTALLY saved my life.

[Dookus]

18. oh, I don't doubt

there are good ones. But my own experience, combined with stories from many friends, make me think the profession has more than its fair share of nutjobs.

[SoCalDem]

19. I didn't know Paul Wolfowitz moonlighted as a shrink

:P

[Robeson]

20. psychologist are like any doctors or like any mechanic....

...or like anyone in any job. Some are good, and some suck. The biggest problem is, is that they, like doctors, are looked at as God-like figures, when the fact is, they are just workers at a job. As I said, some are good, and some are bad, like anything else.....

Also, a lot of psychologists I've met, are co-dependents themselves. Thats why, I would think, they've gotten into that profession. They want to help and save everybody. But that aside, I also know a lot of people who were helped by good psychologist, who without their help, would have gone over the edge...