I haven't had the experience of a counsellor saying I was controlled by the devil, but i am very familiar with black-outs. I have lost a lot of my life to them. I do a lot of things and say a lot of things that i have absolutely no memory of. For me it is a reoccuring thing. I have them everytime i get angry or anxious, or scared. I haven't found a way to control them either.

It sounds like you may have multiple personality disorder or some other type of dissociative disorder. Why don't you visit a psychologis for some testing? It might help you to have an answer to this very stressful symptom.

hod, these experiences can be very frightening. And I don't think you are being controlled by the devil...I had a therapist shove a Bible in my chest once, and insisted I needed to be saved!! (even if it was true, that is definately NOT the way to go about it!!)
Bear in mind, a lot of people get into psychology in order to quietly sort out their own problems. And it doesn't even work that way!! But that is a whole 'nother topic.
The blacking out is a sign of PTSD - post traumatic stress disorder (as long as it is not becuase of drugs or alcohol, which it sounds to me like it isn't). It can become a learned behavior so that whenever we experience severe stress, we check out of the awareness realm. was there something going on in your life in 04 that might have triggered extra stress in your life?

It sounds like you had yourself a real professional counselor there!

I don't have these blackouts but I have selective memory which allows me remember the things I want to but forget other less desirable memories.

Sometimes I have had periods where I would have problems accounting for my time when I was a teen. I don't think I blacked out really, but time just seemed to pass and I really wasn't doing anything. Perhaps daydreaming the time away? I still try to daydream time away when I have to wait in line and sometimes can recapture that at bus stops. But I always wonder about some of my worst depressions when I do lose track of time.

I have had those, but mine didn't start until after I overdosed on sleeping pills at 16, the doctors told my parents there was a 75% chance that I would have brain damage because the pills had been in my system so long before I received help. since then, I sometimes have black outs, but not for long periods of time. Like sometimes I forget where I am or what I am doing for a few minutes and panic

I'm astonished that any counselor would say you are beyond her help and that you are being controlled by the devil.
Although I imagine if she has the professional skills of a third grader I imagine you would be beyond her help. As for being controlled by the devil, she was probably confused about which role she was supposed to play. She meant to be the patient not the therapist.

I have not experienced this but I agree with starfish and Rcat. She needs to find another career. I am a senior psychology student and a Christian. She is an embarrasement to the profession and who the hell is she to say you are being controlled by the devil? I hope you find a real couselor who knows what they are doing instead of making up stuff since she is not skilled enough to treat you.