Poll: Does Anybody Go To A Shrink?

[Uncreation]

I have been to a psychologist for almost a year, but i stopped about 3 months ago. It was ok.

 

[Savvz]

Went to a psychologist once and 20 minutes in he said I should see a psychiatrist. Second appointment with the psychiatrist tomorrow and I should be leaving with a bag full of happy pills.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I do pretty fine...I just get highly paranoid about my GF.

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IMO, You don't have to test trust. That defeats the point entirely.

Just thought I'd step in and give my unimportant opinion there. Cheers.

For me, testing something like trust is important. I mean, it gives a real sense of how much you trust them (not how far you trust them, how much). Because, if you've never had a reason not to trust someone, you could honestly trust them with your life, but that trust might be incredibly fragile. They could make one mistake (late for a movie or something) and that trust could fall apart, whereas you could only trust someone to be there when you need to talk, but you trust them so much that when they appear to have made a mistake (they might have accidentally let it slip that you like peanut butter, jam and vegemite sandwiches or something) you also trust that there was no ill intent or anything. But yeah, just difference in opinion I guess.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Went for several months when I was in middle school... Stopped going because all we did was argue about pointless stuff...

Mostly about whether or not WWE Raw had reruns, which they don't, they have recaps, not as exciting as seeing it "Live"... Not to mentioned I enjoyed watching shows about the supernatural... which made them believe I was actually seeing ghosts/aliens in reality... So they were not very helpful...

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I saw a psychiatrist and a psychologist. Didn't help, because I never felt obligated to tell my psychologist anything, and I wasn't going to become a slave to a pill peddler.

Maybe that last bit was a bit melodramatic, but the point still stands.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I used to. It was a psychiatrist I think. went three times. First was cause I was having autistic like symptoms, so they sent me to basically what amounted to a woman that taught me how to be more social.

Second time was cause my mom thought I needed to go cause she thought I was regressing, when really I was just being selective of my friends and my associates.

Third time was court appointed, because I had a provoked aggressive streak and it was either that or juvenile hall time, and that just wasnt happening. The lady there said I was Disturbed, but Functional, so I'm too sane to be crazy and too crazy to be sane, but I dont need anyone watching/worrying about me snapping.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I do pretty fine...I just get highly paranoid about my GF.

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IMO, You don't have to test trust. That defeats the point entirely.

Just thought I'd step in and give my unimportant opinion there. Cheers.

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I guess I should ask, how does one actually test it? I was thinking that trust cannot be tested, you simply need to spend time with someone building it. I dunno, I seem to think that testing it doesn't make sense. In my mind it's one of those things that's either there or not, and cannot be measured.

Well the main test of trust is doubt. When you go to yourself "I had doubts, but my trust in you was greater than my doubts". It tests trust by weighing it against opposition. So the amount you trust someone (as in, how much you trust them, not how far) is equal to the strength of the doubt that can break it.