Real Life Bad Therapy Sessions That Were Very Memorable

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A mental health “professional”—I have a hard time viewing him as such—told me that I couldn’t have male friends. This is apparently because mixed gender relations always mean there are romantic inclinations.

Basically, girls and guys CAN’T just be friends, so all my problems were because I didn’t have enough female friends. I held my tongue and kept myself from asking about how this would work, since bi and gay people exist. Instead, I told him that I was asexual, so it wasn’t like it would matter.

He then proceeded to “mansplain” that I wasn’t asexual, because he has had other patients who thought they were asexual, but they all changed their minds eventually. Story credit: Reddit / skinnyribs

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