Pet Peeves: My Psych Professor.

Quotes from my Psych professor:

"Generally speaking, 99% of miscarriages are the mother's fault"
"If you want forgiveness, get religion. That's why 'depressed' people get spiritual"
"It's stupid to take or prescribe antidepressants. They don't work. It's just your brain telling your body it's working. If you want to get better, cognitive therapy is the ONLY way to go"

I can sit through just about sit and listen to anything with an open mind. Maybe I'm going overboard. But I feel like the above quotations speak for themselves. I cannot stand my psych professor in the slightest bit whatsoever.

I can overlook the religious remarks made. I'm a firm believer in God, but I don't expect everyone to feel the same way. However; the other two quotations, and especially the first, are getting under my skin the most.

Let me tell you, Mister Psychology Professor, that neural tube defects, particularly spina bifida, is caused by a lack of fiber in the mother. It happens within the first 4 weeks of pregnancy and the mother doesn't know she's pregnant until or after then because the at home tests don't register the hormone levels until then. So the damage is already done. TELL ME NOW how it was my fault that my son died? Tell me how not planning for a baby, but finding it a surprise, and not taking the prenatal vitamins BECAUSE I wasn't planning for another baby- makes it my fauly? Maybe it's my fault that I didn't plan. But I don't want to plan. I like the surprise. Oh Lord, you just got me started.

And tell me now... after the death of my son-- something I DO feel is my fault because I chose to terminate the pregnancy since my son wouldn't live because he had anencephaly-- after falling into a deep depression, lying in bed for weeks, not taking care of my 1 year old, leaving it up to my husband to do all the work. Tell me how I wouldn't be prescribed an antidepressent. To at least get me OUT of the bed and into cognitive therapy. Then, not ONLY did my son die, but 2 months later to the date my mom dies too. So, tell me how I wouldn't try the anti depressents because I needed SOMETHING to keep me going until the therapy kicked in.

As far is religion is concerned, I won't even touch base on that one. But you will lead a very sad life after this one. I pitty you.

He likes to hear himself talk. I get the fact that college class lectures are supposed to be full of the instructor talking. But you'd have to sit there to understand what I mean. He thinks that because he's got Dr. infront of his name, that means that he's write about absolutely everything. He's not a M.D. and certainly can't sit there and tell me that anti depressents don't work and my son's death is my fault.

AH! And the only reason I'm sitting through this class and not withdrawing is because 1-I need this credit. 2- I'm not the one that paid for this semester, so I'm not going to throw the money out the door when I'm making perfectly acceptable grades. 3- I'm not going to let him run me off.