For example, if a child was mad at their parents, the psychologist could pretend to be the parents and engage in a little role-playing. So the child would talk to the psychologist like they are their mom/dad. What kind of therapy is this called?

I’m undecided between an anesthesiologist, a flight attendant, a psychologist, or a divorce attorney…Which job is "Better". Please if anyone is currently anyone of these what are the pros and cons of each job.

I was diagnosed with major depression in 2000 and borderline personality disorder but several therapists have said they don’t think I have this disorder. Therapy has been sporadic due to therapists moving on or not being able to afford it privately. Late last yr I was given public funding to see a private psychologist & just as I am making progress they are cutting that too possibly due to a crisis nurse who had forced me to go to public hospital to be rehydrated and told a nurse private information about me and defamated my character in front of other nurses and the public. They are now withholding my notes so i dont have proof and are treating me with ongoing disrepsect. In dec I became suicidal and rang up a crisis hotline asking for help, the police came, spoke to my local crisis team and then mocked me, leaving with the knowledge I was highly suicidal and consequently acted, waking up in ED they just chucked me in a wheelchair as my left foot was totally numb and left me in the ed waiting area. I called an ambulance then next night and was left for over 6hrs b4 being discharged to my GP. They ordered me off the premises while I was trying to organise a lift home, then up at the top hospital a security guard came up and asked me to leave. I was not doing anything dispruptive, just waiting for the duty manager who had said she would be down to see me and didn’t bother phoning me to tell me she wasn’t coming down then asked again to my humiliation to leave by a security officer. I now get really shaky, sweaty and on edge every time I have an appointment I have to go to at that hospital. Last time I took a health advocate with me. I’m wondering if I am suffering PTSD as just the thought of an upcoming appointment there is bringing on the same symptoms. I have no support from my community mental health team except a ph call from the keyworker I was assigned once a week which never lasts more than 2mins max. I feel like I am living on the edge all the time, and that my father got away with physically, verbally emotionally and psychologically abusing me and one of my brothers as well as violently abusing my Mum throughout my childhood and young adulthood. I just feel soooo lost and am always on the verge of tears, and feel like no-one really cares.:O( I also have a history of being bullied by my family, then my workmates now my mental health team and they are telling me I have had heaps of mental health input over the years which is not true, and was totally invalidated when in my latest crisis the crisis nurse totally negated my physical injuries got a 2nd degree burn to my foot in hospital (DRS fault!), and other foot totally numb from 4th dec, 2009 (which were only recent ones) citing that others cope…..and that all I do is complain….. because when I was new to the service I made a complaint about the psychologist from the local mental health team as she called me a coward, told me all her own problems and told me I was stupid for crying over having to put my 16yr old cat down, and did not tell me I had borderline personality disorder which was told to me during a mediation…….I have had enough of feeling like I am worthless and walking around and round in circles………..HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My psychologist wants to do it with me but I think it’s bull. I don’t want to do it.

She is still insisting we do it. I don’t take it seriously. I’m depressed but I don’t think that this is going to help. I don’t want to do it but the court has mandated that I get therapy.

I’m 16 years old and just recently started going to a psychologist as my mother (a gastroenterologist) deemed it necessary after i finally spoke to her and my dad about the horrible anxiety i was experiencing. Firstly he suggested Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, but that didn’t really work for me. Now we’re trying Acceptance and Commitment therapy and i was just wondering, for all those others with anxiety out there, have any of you tried this method? How has it helped? Or what else have you done to help you to cut back your anxiety symptoms? Thanx in advance.

My ex husband and I have been squabbling lately and we’re meeting tomorrow with our childs psychologist. I can’t trust a word he says anymore and I would like to take a tape recorder in with me.

Should I make it known I have a recorder or should I hide it? Will the doctor be ok with it? I feel like he will be more civil if he knows he’s being recorded.

Here in China we have had an earthquake. Whenever there is a crisis, especially in the United States, there is usually some interview with a psychologist who gives some kind of advice to the interviewer on what people should do to withstand the crisis. Would it be better for the psychologist to simply broadcast psychological counseling directly?

We are not active members in a church but we need some help and are short on $$$. A lot of Church’s don’t have a set price and only take donations. Were as a psychologist you have to pay a set co-pay every time. But I also want the best help we can get. if anyone has any ideas please let me know! Thanks.