ALICExSINx Wonderland
When I was there, they didn't allow you to change therapists which is ridiculous to me, like what kind of mental health facility doesn't allow you to change therapists if yall aren't clicking??? My psychiatrist there was wonderful but my therapist and I just didn't click. Multiple times I would come in and she would ask me if I gained weight even though I told her a few times it made me uncomfortable to hear her ask that. Also she would ask the same questions almost every session even though I would say, "we've been through this" and she would say someone like she doesn't recall. So sometimes some sessions just felt the same. Not only that, but I never left those sessions feeling better than when I went in. Never. I either felt exactly the same or so so so much worse. I asked the front desk to change my therapist and they said no and then my next session my therapist confronted me asking why I wanted to change her and I felt so uncomfortable and anxious and I just said I don't feel we click and she said, "well we don't change therapists here so anyway...". My psychiatrist understood me and tried to convince the people there to change my therapist and they just wouldn't. Eventually I had enough and I left and went to another mental health facility. This one is so much nicer, so much more welcoming and I have the freedom to switch therapists, no questions asked, as it should be. Sometimes I look back on my time at St John's and realize how miserable I was before changing facilities. Also when I was there last, that was actually my second time there because I was forced to go as a teenager. And that therapist told me I was living in a fantasy land just because I wrote poems/lyrics and dreamed of being in a band. She refused to read my poems/lyrics even though I opened up in them way more than I did to her.