Good 2 Talk in Mullingar

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  Wayne S

  :: 24 February 2018 00:20:41

  I went for a few sessions here back in 2015. I opened up to the guy about various issues I had. I had issues with school as a child. I was a social outcast, bullied, and had serious issues with my school work in regards to my English skills. I was an extremely slow reader which made it impossible for me to keep up with school work. This became very defeating. I expressed my issues a lot but was often dismissed as being "perfectly capable". This caused a lot of psychological issues for me in life. I quit school at the age of twelve having rarely went or participated in work for years prior. I also spoke to him of how I was involuntarily admitted to an adult psychiatric unit as a minor where the treatment was degrading and counter-therapeutic. I was forced to take unsuitable drugs which caused rapid weight gain despite having a serious eating disorder which was neglected by those in the services. I had told the consultant psychiatrist of my issues starving myself in my early adolescence, which lead to me going from obese to anorexic in a period of months because nobody in the health services wanted to help me with my weight. Despite numerous pleas to be taken off the medication and crash diet attempts while medicated he refused to take me off the medication. I ended up starving myself for months after the treatment. I told him of the difficult psychological issues and thoughts of suicide which this caused. Anyway, during our very next appointment he tried suggesting that the issues I had opened up about (e.g. finding it difficult to trust people) were cause by another non-related event in childhood (something which had no permanent effect on me). We planned on having another appointment but he had to canceled and ignored my mother's text messages thereafter. Also, when I told him of how I was physically restrained for unjust reasons and even held over a toilet while I defecated despite having full control over my facilities (something the staff of the hospital later denied doing) while hospitalized, and my family referred to as "knackers" for defending me, he suggesting that they were "just trying to help". In 2016, another man there, Pat, arranged an appointment to see me. I only attended to discern why the other an had stopped showing up and had no intention of continuing sessions as I was disheartened and felt let down. Pat insisted that I come up stairs to talk to him. I made it very clear to this Pat that I did not want to speak to him about what was going on in my life but he was persistently asking questions and trying to pry information out of me. The previous sessions had left a bad impression on me. I was very uncomfortable. It was extremely difficult enough for me to put trust in someone to begin with after what happened to me under the care of the HSE, as I had made clear that this caused trust issues to the previous man I had seen. Pat told me that he would have to break our confidentiality under certain circumstances with one of them he listed being if I was suicidal. Why he then asked me if I was suicidal and expected a serious response I do not understand. It's clearly someone who's not interested in mental health services who was destroyed by such services as a minor would not want to open up about when those services can be directly attributed to such thoughts. I also mentioned that I was diagnosed with "Asperger's syndrome" or "high functioning autism" (nobody in the services seemed to be able to give me a clear answer on which I had). He asked me what I knew about autism claiming he didn't know much. When I told him I didn't know much he told me that it meant "f*** all". To switch from knowing little about it to being able to tell me with authority that it meant "f*** all" was a bit bizarre. He also spent far too long talking about the importance of handshakes and put way too much meaning behind them. Handshakes = "f*** all" too. I would not recommend this service.