From 2007
Sorry I have been away from the blog for a couple of days, but it was a long busy weekend and I have not had time to come bless you with another blog post. (That is kind of cocky huh?) Anyway, this one will probably be short and sweet, but it is definitely something that needs to be addressed. The topic of today is counselors and their lack of "real" knowledge.
I remember back in my high school, we had guidance counselors. Now while they were good for school subjects, they were very unqualified in other subjects. Why are there only one or two counselors in a school anyway, and what are they worth if they cannot help you figure out your problems?
Teenagers mostly visit these school counselors, while adults see shrinks and counselors for other things as well. It seems today EVERYONE is seeing a damn counselor for some reason or another. Just tell me why though? What can they do that you could not do on your own besides write a prescription for a "happy" pill for you to drown out your problems? That is not fixing them.
Now some people do not take the pills and merely talk about their problems. I can talk to myself instead of a shrink just sitting there listening with no insight. No one on this earth knows everything either, so what if they have no experience in your problems area? How are they going to help you?
Take drug addiction for example. They always told us we could go to our school counselor with such problems. That is a bunch of crap really. Most of these counselors that they hire have not been through drugs or drug addiction, so who are they to tell you what is right and what is wrong? All they have is facts they have learned in school. That goes for other things besides drugs as well. How is a counselor going to talk to a rape victim, when they have never been raped themselves?
My question is would they let an English teacher teach Spanish if she did not know a lick of Spanish? So why are they letting these counselors, for adults and kids, be qualified to tell us how to deal or fix our problems with no knowledge on the subject? Why, because they have a degree from college where their parents paid their whole way and they never had to struggle with any "real" people problems.
Even in the newspaper I see these advice columnists like Dear Abby. Are you telling me that Abby can help a crack addict with recovery, or tell a blind man how to cope with his loss of sight, or anything like that? No! She has not been through it and has no authority on the subject.
These people are getting paid for knowing nothing. Does that make any sense at all? If I was a drug addict for example (actually used to be), I would rather go to a person who is a recovered addict to help me get past my drug abuse. He has been there and done that, so to me that is credible. He knows the ups and downs, and has beaten the problem himself. If I was a rape victim, I would want to go to a person who has been raped and learned to live with it because she is credible as well. These are the real counselors to see when you have a problem, not a Dear Abby or school counselor that knows nothing but books.
Now I know there are some out there like I describe. I seen one the other day who talks to youths about gangs, and he is an ex-gang member. Now that is EXACTLY who should be talking to them about gangs. He has lived it and seen the problems it can cause and is trying to keep these kids away from them. They have people somewhere who have been through whatever you are going through to help you; you just have to find them.
Just stop going to these shrinks, school counselors, or writing Dear Abby to solve all your problems. These people are fake and have no knowledge of many of the problems that people come to them with. I know drunks on the corner downtown that could counsel you better about life then these fake healers. All you have to do is throw him some change, and he will change your life. You think I am kidding? Go downtown and find one, he knows it all. He's been through all this shit.
Wisdom in a subject does not come from books or classes, it comes from living. I am not saying to stop studying and do your homework, but the best lessons are learned from living. A real counselor is someone who has really "lived”. So while you go to these shrinks or write in to Abby, I will be downtown taking a sip of liquor with old Willie there and hearing about how life really is. I will be getting my counseling from someone who has lived it, not read it. Life's my counselor, what about you?
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