I am a vegetarian MD and I encourage my patients to adopt an animal-free diet to manage their chronic medical conditions and reduce inflammation. Sadly, very few follow that advice and generally ask for a pill instead. Keep looking for medical and mental health professionals that appreciate veg*n diets! We are out there!
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f her! i had a therapist mock me when i wanted to be vegan when i was 14, even looking in a book to see how much protein broccoli had or something. she was a nasty piece of work. find someone else. therapy is all about finding the right person to listen to you AND speak logically/helpfully. i've gone through about 6 of them and found the best one!
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Some people see a beautiful thing and they want to destroy it. The thing makes them feel ugly, so they act ugly.
I went the doctors 2 days ago because im anemic and needed iron tablets, the doctor asked about my diet and i told him im vegetarian and he rolled his eyes.. aha. Ive also been accused before of not eating, just because im skinny, when infact i eat an awful lot! There are some nutters out there calling themselves professionals, and your counsellor had no right to say that to you, if she thinks you are unhealthy then she should have given you a good, balanced and healthy diet to follow.. that includes various food groups.
Im sorry to hear of your losses, and i wish you well.
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Things like these really discourage me from trusting any "professional" advice...
I haven't because counsellors are only supposed to give dietary advice if it relates specifically to your condition eg when I was getting treatment for panic attacks they assessed my use of known triggers such as cigarettes, alcohol and caffeine. They also got me to look at eating breakfast, which has really helped.Originally Posted by tamara1
Anyway, I would consider that to be inappropriate advice and yes counsellors can make mistakes and are not meant to be perfect, but it just sounds like the one you described is self absorbed. Many many many counsellors/nurses/social workers etc are people who are basically ****ed and decide that the way to solve their own problems is to help others solve theirs. These people can still be very good at what they do, but if a counsellor is too self absorbed they are going to relate everything back to themselves like this person has.
However, if you are overeating due to grief it is likely that you will hear something about addressing diet. But I wouldn't think they'd be discussing that in the first session unless you indicated that you felt it was very important to lose weight.
Last edited by adam antichrist; November 7th, 2009 at 08:57 PM.
She has no right to be giving you diet advice, anyway.
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I wouldn't call that "advice" anyway. Seriously, any counsellor wanting to treat emotional overeating with "the cabbage soup diet" or any other kind of bull**** should just STFU.
Recommending that clients who suffer from emotional overeating need to go on a diet (even if it's the oh-so-good Weight Watchers program) is just wrong!
The problem with shrinks is that you never know if they are saying things to you just to see what your reaction will be.
Haha, true!
However, when it comes to dietary issues I'd rather place my bet on ignorance than on wanting to test the patient. Too many of my colleagues are just ignorant idiots with a high resistance against (more or less new) information when it comes to weight and food issues, be it a psychiatrist or a surgeon or a dermatologist.
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