I knew Dr. Johnson for many years. I also know, and know of, other doctors who worked with Dr. Johnson . They all basically said the same thing about Dr. Johnson, which is that he has anger issues, and that he is arrogant and uncaring. When I was a patient of Dr. Johnson's, another therapist eventually got Johnson to refer me to someone else. Years later, I learned that this other therapist believed that Johnson had ""badly damaged"" my life, and he said Johnson was a ""terrible therapist"". When I began seeing Dr. Johnson, I was a child. After I began seeing Dr. Johnson, my grades dropped drastically, and I began getting into trouble in school. I also became very depressed. When my mother told Johnson about my grades going down, he told her ""It's normal for a child's grades to go down when they first start therapy."" That's not true.He made it up. But my parents trusted him. Sometimes during my therapy sessions, he would tell me about, and put down, other patients of his. He is also very anti-gay. He put down, and made fun of, his gay patients during my sessions. Dr. Johnson also likes to cuss, and talk about sex, in front of his child patients .He will bring up adult sexual topics in front of kids, without the patient having brought up the topic first. When he talked about sex, he often used words that you would expect to hear from a truck driver. He used words like ""f*ck"" ""screw"" ""t*ts"" and ""prick"". He often said really strange things during my sessiobns, that had nothing to do with anything that I said or did. When I was in high school, he told me a story about an adult male patient of his who couldn't get an erection. I don't know how a story like that is relevant to the life of a high school age girl. He told me many stories about his patients sex lives.He regularly talked about his personal problems...his ex-wives, his kids, problems with his patients. My parents paid thousands and thousands of dollars to this man over the years, so that I could sit there and listen to him talk about his problems and make his weird comments. He could also be verbally abusive to me. He would say things to me like ""Can you get that through your thick skull?"". On one occassion, I was taking antibiotics for the flu, along with the Prozac and Xanax that Johnson had put me on.I had a very negative physical reaction. At the time, I didn't know what the problem was.I was scared.We called Dr. Johnson, thinking he would know if it had to do with the meds he prescribed.I spoke to Johnson on the phone.Described to him what I'd been experiencing. He said to me ""You don't have a brain"", and he laughed. He didn't know what the problem was, and was very irritated that I'd contacted him.He said he'd have to consult another doctor.Later, on another day, Johnson told me he talked to another doctor, who told him that the problem was the mixing of medications, and to stop taking the Prozac and Xanax while on the flu medication.It seemed odd that Johnson didn't know something as basic as that. At that point he'd been a psychiatrist for about 25 years. Sometimes during my sessions he would make fun of, and put down, the parents (of his child patients). A lot of parents got angry with him for how he spoke to their children. Dr. Johnson would imitate the parents in front of me, mocking them...Do not take your kids to this guy.
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