Why is it that psychologists are the craziest muthafuckers to work with?

[graywarrior]

Damn!

[xmas74]

1. Try dating one.

It's even worse when they leave the office.

[KitchenWitch]

57. No kidding

when I was in my early twenties, I dated a psychologist almost twice my age. Talk about mind games...

[xmas74]

60. "What do you think?"

was a popular comment of his. Then, if I expressed my opinion, there was the headshake and the look of "wrong answer" from him.
Lots of mind games and most of them quite subtle.

[XemaSab]

2. How do you tell the staff from the patients in a mental hospital?

The staff have the keys.

[Redstone]

4. No joke: I almost spent the night in a mental hospital because of that.

I was visiting a young lady, and the staff didn't notice me there until an hour after closing time...one of the staff looked into the room where we were sitting, and asked me why I had a coat next to me (implying "you're not going anywhere")...fortunately, I knew one of the nurses there, and she came by and straightened out the misunderstanding just as I was gettig ready to make a break for it.

Redstone

[XemaSab]

6. Nice one!

:rofl:

[xmas74]

7. I worked in a mental hospital for five years.

I'll agree w/ you on that one.

[XemaSab]

8. My mom worked in mental health for around 10 years

and HOLY COW she had some FREAKY co-workers.

She had a dude who set fires, she had a lady attempt suicide out of the blue, she had a compulsive liar...

THESE WERE STAFF MEMBERS!!!! :scared:

[xmas74]

9. I worked w/ dealers,

kleptos and many others.
And yes, they were the staff.

[Nevernose]

28. Stephen King: We're all crazy...

But those of us not in mental intitutions are better at hiding it.

[Redstone]

3. Because they hang around crazy people all the time and it rubs off?

Just guessing.

Redstone

[Ellen Forradalom]

11. Or they're drawn to the profession

in an attempt to deal with their problems?

[philosophie_en_rose]

19. Bingo!

I think that there are a lot of therapists with good boundaries and healthy professionalism. However, there are also a lot of so-called therapists that are drawn to therapy for selfish or even bad motives.

Such as trying to solve their own problems through clients, projecting their issues onto clients, being absolute quacks, and other poor qualities.

[Deja Q]

24. And if that was true, surely the client would be paid $125/hr instead?

:rofl:

[Left Is Write]

5. I have no idea. My brother-in-law is a psychologist....

I find him strangely normal.

[NMMNG]

10. I work in mental health

Some of the staff are as "crazy" as the people they are providing services to in my experience. And really, there are a good number of staff who are being treated for mental illnesses--or need to be.

I've also found that in the field of developmental disabilities, it can be hard to tell the staff from the clients at times. One of my former supervisors had a saying: "We hire and serve people with mental retardation". And he wasn't too far off the mark with some of our employees. :scared:

[Ellen Forradalom]

25. Nothing wrong with being treated for a mental illness

It's the "should be" that's worrisome.

[NMMNG]

54. I never said there was (and those who claim there is infuriate me)

I was merely stating a fact.


It's the "should be" that's worrisome.

That depends. I fully advocate for personal choice when it comes to treatment of any illness or disorder. Some of the people are merely annoying when untreated. Then there are those who are more than annoying and are disruptive and even dangerous at times. Fortunately they eventually are taken off our hands.

[skygazer]

12. I spent a week in a nuthouse once

And I can assure you that the people in charge were crazier than we who were locked up. I was there because I'd been found by my best friend out in an old cemetery with a loaded .38 and a hunting knife. I had blood all over me from slashing my arms and legs and was banging my head against a stone crying when he dragged me off to my doctor who sent me to the nuthouse. ~sigh~

The loony doctor in charge told me that my only problem was that I was addicted to marijuana (because I told him I smoked occasionally to relieve stress - I was in the middle of a severe bi-polar episode). :wtf:

I immediately called my friend and told him to come get me. "These people are crazier than I am," I told him. :scared:

[graywarrior]

13. I witnessed a psychologist on total freak out mode over something

that happened last Friday. She's STILL ranting, raving and spitting all over the lunch table. Get over it already.
Must be the full moon.

[Midlodemocrat]

14. Well, I don't think I am crazy.

But, then again, I'm not currently practicing.

[Orsino]

15. Because they specialize in...

...getting us to reveal what we most desperately try to hide, by sheer persuasion.

If an unarmed bank robber tried to talk the guard into opening the vault, we'd call him crazy, too. Even after he succeeded.

[Benfea]

16. Why is this surprising to you?

What do you think motivates them to become psychologists or psychiatrists in the first place?

[graywarrior]

17. Coz their nutz.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

18. YYYEEEAAAHHHH!!!

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

[graywarrior]

20. I need to make another donation so I can give you a heart

[Crazy Guggenheim]

21. Awwww. Thanks buddy!

:popcorn: :popcorn:

[graywarrior]

23. Welcome. You are cool.

[Jade Fox]

22. They go in to the field...

because they are looking for help themselves.

A cliche' perhaps, but untrue?

[noonwitch]

58. There's some truth in it

I'm a social worker and lots of people in my field are in it for the same reasons. Not everyone, but plenty.

[sendero]

26. My theory...

.. is that psychologist and psychiatrists are folks who are crazy, know they are crazy, and get a degree to try to figure themselves out.

[DemoTex]

27. I'm married to one. Top in her field (I/O).

She is great! PhD from Georgia Tech, and partner in a multi-million dollar world-wide consulting firm. Former president of SIOP (Society of Industrial and Occupational Psychologists), which is Division 14 of APA (American Psycological Asociation). Former board member APA. Member Georgia Tech Board of Graduate Curriculum Advisors. Etc., etc.!
National Academy of Sciences. Editor of two I/O journals. She is not crazy. And she certainly is no MoFo! Eh?

Mac

[DemoTex]

29. Hmmm. Stopped that thread.

Eh?

[graywarrior]

42. Can you get her to come work at my agency?

[jrandom421]

30. Because...

they have gone into the field, searching for the answers to their own problem, and have awakened to the fact that they have all this schooling that they can't use if they don't become psychologists, and still don't have answers to solve their own problems.

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[Crazy Guggenheim]

33. I/O is different from a Psychotherapist.

:popcorn:

[DemoTex]

35. Indeed, Sir Crazy ...

Gastroenterology is different from psychiatry. Both take MD degrees. Both take specialty training. So are the sub-specialties in psychology. Ask the astronauts. Some of my wife's I/O professors at Georgia Tech in the mid-70s helped put the men on the moon.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

37. But most Psychotherapists are still as nutty as hell.

:popcorn:

[mdmc]

59. I wonder what his wife would say if she saw his postings here?

very odd, indeed.

[mdmc]

34. (that reply was to the OP)

your wife sounds like the real deal.

Would you ask her why my psychologist would eat his dandruff during my session?

ps- what is an I/O?

[DemoTex]

38. Sorry, she doesn't do "sessions."

She bills Fortune 100 companies by the hour from places like Warsaw, Bangladore, Moscow, etc.! She works on big statistical bases, not individual dandruff-eaters. Sorry. That is your problem, my friend.

I/O = Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Look it up.

Mac

[mdmc]

56. Industrial psychology

those are the folks that say, "get rid of the health plan, and put up an inspirational posters!"

Ask her why a professional individual would do this. She can pretend that it is 27 out of 100 therapist, if she needs to.

[DemoTex]

61. Wrong, friend!

You are so wrong!

[Justpat]

32. I don't know. But they are.

My fist husband was a psychologist. He was one of the craziest men I have
ever met. The marriage lasted a grand total of two months. Then I had
to run for my life and my sanity.

[PassingFair]

53. Your "fist" husband?

Now THAT'S what I call a Freudian slip, Old Broad!!!

[swag]

36. Because they understand that the pose will get them quick, noncommital sex

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[swag]

43. Great.

[DemoTex]

45. " .. quick, noncommital sex .."

Explain what you mean, please sir. You have gone way over my line. Know what I mean, Vern?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

46. Of the ones who get in trouble that's what the issue is. The other is

drugs.

[swag]

47. This is a lounge thread.

And I was joking. Sorry you didn't like my joke.

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[realisticphish]

40. We're not

:shrug:
talk to the engineers and philosophy majors if you want fucked up coworkers...

the vast majority of psych majors that i've met (including myself) are just interested in understanding how the brain works...

plus, we tend to be liberal :D

[graywarrior]

48. Simmer down people or I'll call in a psychologist.

[DemoTex]

50. I've got one in-house.

Know what I mean, Vern?

[graywarrior]

51. Sounds like she made the right choice.

[Robeson]

55. Usually, 'cause they are co-dependents themselves....

...hence the need to save everyone.