Whenever I say forever afterward's I go harder then ... Never worked for me.
I learned to lie to dr's because of their subjective opinions. Learned to keep cetrain thing's unspoken as I suck at lying. And off course I hope they don't look in my eye's. Most cover up's and lies are easy to spot. Dr's do it to and therapist's. My EX- home dr, is that a GP in the US. He is real good, he fucked me up big time. And I don't know if he is playing dummy or is a dummy?
But the near future will maybe reveal his true, overpriced, origin. After my ex is ok of some surgery I am picking up were I left. Making a appointment with him, to determine his act.
I wil be taking a friend with me, as chaperonne, just in case I wouid want to bash him. Selfprotection!
Honestly, while I won't say it is 100% necessary to be a good "addiction therapist" that you have had past addictions, I'd say that if you haven't your opinion is going to be limited, and that IMO probably most of the best addiction counselors are going to be those who have used drugs themselves, and while this guy was like 60 so I can't 100% say for sure what he was like when he was young, I am going to go out on a limb and say that I am pretty sure the guy's experience with drugs is probably limited to "that one or two times I smoked pot in college" and "the few times I drank a bit too much with a friend" LOL.
There's no way this guy has ever used real drugs or knows himself what it is to have an addiction.
I mean, it is possible IMO to have not used drugs and still be able to help those with addictions, but you are certainly going to be at as disadvantage because of that fact alone IMO and have to learn that much more in order to be able to help people.
I'd say that it's probably easy for someone who has never done drugs in their life to say that someone who has substance issues should be able to easily and definitively say "I am going to quit all drugs forever right now."
An addict would probably at least understand that that is a very difficult thing to do.
Also, even IF I quit drugs forever I will ALWAYS be of the opinion that EVERY SINGLE drug should be legal if you are 18 years old and taking it in the privacy of your own home and not driving a car, and it's really important to me that if I am talking to a drug counselor about this shit that they agree with me.
I mean, not that it is necessary to have that opinion to help someone with addictions, but if you don't AT LEAST agree that marijuanna should be legal and that people should not be doing actual prison time for drugs and that most drugs do have helpful uses when it comes to expanding one's consciousness, then we are not going to get along.
And I am pretty sure he's NOT of that opinion cause when I told him at one point that that was my opinion he gave me a look that seemed to mean to me at least that he doesn't think most drugs should be legal.
I mean, every drug can be abused and can ruin lives, but all those same drugs have beneficial uses and have opened different people's minds in helpful ways, and I'm even going as far to say that the very worst drugs like Meth and Heroin can AT LEAST like 0.000001% of the time have a SMALL beneficial effect on the user, even if the other 99.99999999% of their experience with the drug has absolutely destroyed their lives.
There is no single opinion in life that I feel more strongly about than the idea that every adult should have the right to put whatever they want into their own body so long as they are not hurting anyone else, and also that drugs, by and large, even despite how much damage they can cause, are 100% necessary for mankind to understand it's own universal mind, and that by and large, mind altering drugs are something which it is VERY important that they exist, if despite the damage they can do.
Whenever I hear that anyone is not of the opinion that at least SOMETIMES a lot of mind altering substances can be beneficial and that at least SOME of them should be legal I pretty much gag with repulsion.
That was another thing he said at one point/another reaction he had to something I said in my last visit: I forget what I was trying to explain, but I was referring to "recreational drug use" in order to make a point that some drug use is purely intended for fun by the user, and that some is used either to self medicate or to try to expand one's mind.
And when I said the phrase "recreational drug use" he sort of smiled and said "I don't know what you mean by that."
I mean, how could you NOT know what recreational drug use is or that on some level there is a difference between someone who consciously takes a drug just for fun, or someone who takes it to self medicate or even to try to expand their consciousness??!!!
Like, almost all my drug use, other than my prescribed meds, is recreational, BUT, there have been rare times I've used substances for certain points.
For example, I've used both Dexadrine/Adderall/Vyvanse and Kratom to help me do academic work because they have helped with my concentration, and actually, in the case of Kratom, to open my mind to new ideas.
I teach English as a Second Language to foreigners, and I remember one specific time I was writing a lesson plan and I was just super stressed and couldn't think straight and needed to come up with ideas for how to teach an interesting class and felt like I had to stop for the day cause I was so frustrated.
Then I thought to myself "I bet if I take Kratom my mood will improve and I will start to think more creatively and won't have to stop for the day and will come up with some good ideas."
Well, I took Kratom and instantly I was no longer stressed about writing the plan and because of how good I felt my mind just relaxed and opened and I was able to think clearly and come up with a really good idea for a class activity that I might not have come up with otherwise.
Then of course there are the times I know I am just self medicating cause I feel bad, but there are also times I have taken Phenibut and/or Kratom to loosen up my muscles and improve my mood and performance when doing the pretty grueling physical therapy exercises I have to do for my knees and neck due to the injuries I've had from doing martial arts, and they work a charm.
And lets of course not forget that many people use psychedelics to help them think about issues they are confronting in life from a different angle and help with depression and anxiety.
I can GUARANTEE that this idiot psychologist would have had ZERO understanding that any mind altering legal drug can have anything other than a "recreational use" and just thinks they are all bad and do nothing but mess people up.
I mean, what else could he have meant when he said he didn't understand what the term "recreational drug use" means?
What an idiot.
I'm glad he let me know he was incompetent so I didn't waste any more time with him.