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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

Yeah even I'm a beautiful girl and I was just laying here an hour ago thinking how much I want to have sex right now but the problem is when there's nobody compatible around to have sex with. That's the problem.

Edit: added the word compatible.

[–] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 8 points 2 days ago

My boss told me this is due to the skills shortage.

[–] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 251 points 4 days ago (12 children)

This is obviously fake and gay™, but PSA: if something similar happens to you IRL, it's not therapy being useless, it's therapist being an asshole and genuinely harmful to their patients.

[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 48 points 4 days ago

Yeah OP should say "1 therapist is useless".

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 33 points 4 days ago (5 children)

The problem is you don't know if your therapist might be an asshole before speaking to them.

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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 66 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I think I can see what went wrong here. The therapist is probably trying to disrupt their internal narrative but hasn't established the baseline trust. Confrontation can be important in therapy. Sometimes, people can get the idea that their agency doesn't matter, that they are just the sort of person who doesn't get to (lose weight/have sex/get that job/etc.) and part of a therapist's job can be to get the patient to break down that belief by questioning it, but if they haven't established the necessary trust with the patient, it just comes across like a trollish comment on the internet, a random attack from a stranger who might not only not be doing it for your best interest but even to be hurtful for their own amusement.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

it's green text; it's more made up than an r/aita and r/tifu post combined.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 5 points 1 day ago

Greentext means it was written by an ignorant person, not necessarily that it is false.

The problem is that it's bad fiction.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is the only sensible response I can see in the whole comments section. Lot of replies from people who think a therapist’s job is to cheer you up with a wholesome pep talk and send you on your way.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 3 points 2 days ago

Sometimes a pep talk is what you need. Sometimes it's a harsh reality check. The quality of a therapist is partly determined by their ability to know when one or the other is needed.

[–] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Context and tone are so important in therapy. I had trouble with a new counselor because she was far more challenging than my last one, who was more about building my confidence. She kept pushing, lightly, until I defended myself — I told her that suffering isn't a competition and how I feel is valid — when I realized she was trying to get me to own my emotions when I was almost disassociating. She's better than I initially thought, and she treaded that line very well.

[–] MortUS@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago

it just comes across like a trollish comment on the internet, a random attack from a stranger who might not only not be doing it for your best interest but even to be hurtful for their own amusement.

And Only time and repetition will be able to tell if it's in good faith or bad faith.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah the "you didn't really try" can be super dismissive from a stranger. Or it can be a positive message like "you are stronger than you think" coming from a friend. But I don't think even coming a friend you'd get that, when you are down the hole.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

Yeah, and I think the better way of phrasing such a thing is "you're defeating yourself before putting in a good external effort."

I remember being young, a virgin, and struggling to get laid. And yeah I really thought I was trying, but it was more like I was trying to try. I wasn't chatting people up, I wasn't going out, I wasn't socializing much at all, and when someone literally fell into my lap hitting on me I pushed her away. I was dealing with my own mental issues and while I wanted to get into a relationship or even just laid, those issues stood firmly between me and actually trying. Hell, it had turned out I had been hot the whole time.

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[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

i wish a lady would interrupt my narrative with her baseline trust.

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[–] ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world 80 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Therapists with specialties seem to dislike it when their client doesn't fall under that umbrella. I had a therapist whose specialty was child sexual abuse. I told her I didn't experience any and she defensively snapped "Are you sure? Maybe you don't remember it!". I did not stick with her for long.

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail and stuff

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 31 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"are you sure it's that you just weren't a hot enough kid? "

"how does it feel to know your parents/relatives didn't find you sexually attractive enough to abuse you? "

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[–] anubis2814@lemmy.today 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing makes someone feel safe and heard like a therapist completely unable to comprehend that something considered socially embarrassing is possible. If you have a friend like this, heathygamergg on YouTube is making some amazing dating videos and thinks helping someone date is something simple every therapist should be able to do. Maybe not quickly but as he put it, a 5 year goal so you aren't as desperate

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[–] whitecollarcry@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

skill issue huh, shame

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

therapist is offering to suck his dick and he's just not getting it

[–] deathbird@mander.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

That's the gay part. Fake: man goes to therapy. Gottem.

[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 86 points 4 days ago

be me, formerly professional-level troll on WoW forums

my golden days are long gone, sadly

lightbulb.wav

what if I used all my experience and mastery to earn a living?

gonna open a therapist office

MFW I'm the worst therapist in the world and morons come and pay me to ask them why they are still virgins at 28

they always go home sobbing

[Insert some pepe]

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Therapist are like toothpaste. You keep trying another one until you find one that you like.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Most people would say shoes ..

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (13 children)

I just switched to a new toothpaste.

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[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 43 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Literal definition of "incel".

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Such a shame it got commandeered, even if it was inevitable from the start

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[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (4 children)

That's totally how therapy works.

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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So green text got a shitty therapist and needs to get a new one. Pretty normal, really.

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fake- anon talks to girl

Gay- anon goes to therapy

[–] Soapbox@lemmy.zip 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would have assumed they were religious before asexual. I've known many people who were virgins until they married in their late 20s or early 30s.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 25 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I fucked so many good christian girls (and boys) up the ass in high school.

They all got married as virgins too.

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[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 25 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Between the lines, I think OP's therapist might think they're cute.

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