Positive feedback for AskMe from therapist

March 20, 2007 7:47 PM

"I am in therapy, and my therapist has agreed with me that Ask MeFi has resulted in some really intelligent and meaningful answers before." Nice feedback for AskMe.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen to MetaFilter-Related at 7:47 PM (30 comments total)

Ask MeFi has resulted in some really intelligent and meaningful answers before

Once, twice- maybe even three times.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:57 PM on March 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

Therapist gives thumbs up? Oh, Validation!
posted by nj_subgenius at 8:03 PM on March 20, 2007

That anonymous fellow really ought to see a doctor about that, right away.
posted by Dave Faris at 8:06 PM on March 20, 2007

my therapist has agreed with me that Ask MeFi has resulted in some really intelligent and meaningful answers before.

Ah, but is s/he a doctor, or a lawyer? The distinction matters.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:12 PM on March 20, 2007

My therapist is a doctor and a lawyer. But she doesn't know about Metafilter.
posted by nursegracer at 8:19 PM on March 20, 2007

Holy shit. All the better, I guess.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:22 PM on March 20, 2007

man, the billable hours must just roll in.
posted by boo_radley at 8:46 PM on March 20, 2007

I got yer therapy right here.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 8:53 PM on March 20, 2007

Someone needs to get their medical license taken away.
posted by Falconetti at 8:58 PM on March 20, 2007

IM IN UR SHRINK PROMOT'N UR WEBSITEZ!
posted by blue_beetle at 9:06 PM on March 20, 2007

some really intelligent and meaningful answers
like:
"...see a therapist"
"I don't want to sound .....but you should really see a therapist", and
"seriously, dude, you need to see a therapist"
posted by bunglin jones at 9:14 PM on March 20, 2007 [1 favorite]

What has Sean Connery got to say about this?
posted by cortex (staff) at 9:38 PM on March 20, 2007

Next week: Stephen Hawking thanks local panhandler for his very creative and provocative theories about time travel.
posted by gsteff at 10:52 PM on March 20, 2007

They're just completing the feedback loop - we feed them patients with any and all issues, and they feed us a kickback. You didn't get your check?
posted by Rhomboid at 12:07 AM on March 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Once I was on a walk and I passed the house my therapist lived in. Her car was in the driveway. A gold Saab, with that one license plate frame. I walked faster.

Lady, I can't imagine how bad it would suck to be recognized by a patient on the intart00bz. If that were not the case, I would spin this instance as Anon evangelizing our services to a likely customer. Can you imagine it: "I have a client who needs to name his cat but is paralyzed by fear of failure and problems with his cat name access query... no meds kthkbye hope me hivemind...."
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 1:24 AM on March 21, 2007

Ask Metafilter: Really Intelligent and Meaningful Answers
posted by Happy Dave at 3:04 AM on March 21, 2007

Why is it that every time I see the word therapist, I now mentally parse it as the-rapist?

Thank you, Steven Colbert.
posted by psmealey at 3:51 AM on March 21, 2007

then you owe us 120 dollars
posted by matteo at 4:07 AM on March 21, 2007

an hour
posted by matteo at 4:07 AM on March 21, 2007

/summoning snark @300/hr

Paypal is cool.
posted by bardic at 4:36 AM on March 21, 2007

Umm, for those of you who have context deficiency, the therapist did not unilaterally recommend AskMe to the patient. Most likely anon was printing out past threads to show the therapist, who smiled in the how-nice-you're-helping-yourself-through-the-internets kind of way.
posted by Saucy Intruder at 4:49 AM on March 21, 2007

ScamTherapistFilter: I can't get my therapist to shut up. He keeps discussing AskMe and MetaTalk threads, saying how much he would like to have img tag back and, more recently, dissecting every little comment dios makes. The worst is, he bills me for those hours!!!

You think I should change therapists?
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posted by micayetoca at 7:53 AM on March 21, 2007

My therapist told me I should Ask Metafilter. HINAM
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 8:01 AM on March 21, 2007

Anon is going off us a bit now, though, I fear.
posted by flabdablet at 8:19 AM on March 21, 2007

Anon is going off us a bit now, though, I fear.

Eh, not whole lot of going off, since ikkyu2's advice is pretty much in line with the rest and he seems to be reacting more to the bluntness and 'presumptiveness' of it (in a "you don't know me!" way).

And since he's quasi-admitted to not being able to read social signals all that well, the whole 'great trial' thing probably soured him from the start.
posted by CKmtl at 9:41 AM on March 21, 2007

Must be tough advice to hear, overall; between ikkyu2's "Stop taking yourself so seriously" and markovich's "Nobody DOES like obese people, and you know it, so deal with it", I'm surprised he bothered to come back at all. I'd sit in the corner and sulk for days.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 11:31 AM on March 21, 2007 [1 favorite]

Instead of the two-week stint, each AskMe question should cost a dollar to ask. Best answer(s) get reimbursed accordingly.
posted by phaedon at 3:07 PM on March 21, 2007

Yes, but the person who made this comment isn't our doctor and wasn't talking about our situation, so I'm afraid we can't use this advice for ourselves....
posted by acoutu at 3:39 PM on March 21, 2007

Why is it that every time I see the word therapist, I now mentally parse it as the-rapist?

Thank you, Steven Colbert.

That jokes predates Colbert at least as far as Benny Hill, probably farther.

(still a good one, though)
posted by drjimmy11 at 8:38 PM on March 21, 2007

The first version I heard involved a buggy auto-hyphenate routine. You can make anything painfully geeky if you try.
posted by nebulawindphone at 4:00 PM on March 22, 2007