I recently came across a few posts where individuals were struggling with how to resolve romantic relationship issues, how to approach opposite gender or how to get over a breakup.
I was wondering if this is so common, what part do you guys struggle the most with? and what kind of suggestion/advice (generic, obviously) would you want from a clinical psychologist?
I'm a die hard fan of Khaled Hosseini's work. If I ever get chance to reread a book for the first time it'd always be The Kite Runner, has and will always be my go to book.
However, I can't let go off the western influence on his writings. The way he portrayed Afghanistan and to some extent the culture looks whitewashed.
Growing up in Pakistan, I used to hear how Pakistan's in a bad state because of Afghanistan, but when I read Khaled Hosseini I fell in love with Afghanistan with its beauty.
As I grew up, read more of history and of culture I started feeling weird about some pieces of his writing.
How US saved Afghanis from the atrocities (A BIG LAUGH), how a religion made life difficult for afghanis (it was the extremist, not a religion that did that!) and again the continuous depiction of savior complex in americans that would never ever go away!
I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki was a horrible book in terms of what the psychiatrist said. Any person with a bit of sympathy and empathy would have said better things than that
As a psychologist I would never understand how a psychologist was able to give therapy. And no doubt the therapy went awful because it wasn't therapy it was just a bad attempt by the psychiatrist to talk. Its a pretty simple and basic rule to not send the client back with the problematic thought. It needs to be adressed right away and a good insight is to be given at that moment, so that it can be addressed in the future sessions as well.
I can rant all day about how awful the psychiatrist was.
What are some of the myths/concerns you would love to get sorted by a clinical psychologist?