This isn't about reporting posts, because this thread has already been locked. This is about a change in guidelines. Kinda like on the depression boards you can't say you are going to commit suicide, or on the DID playground where you don't talk about serious issues of dealing with DID.

I think there needs to be guidelines in posts in the therapy section where a poster respondent feels that someone's T is being unethical. I feel it is okay to say you see a potential problem or a red flag. But when another respondent constantly hammers someone about their T over and over with numerous posts in the same thread and it is clearing causing the original poster to become very upset , upset enough they have to leave forever, than something needs to be done about this. Closing a thread is not enough.
T relationships are a special and unique thing, not all T's are the same, nor are all therapies the same and not all clients are the same. This sort of thing, if someone see's a potential problem with someone's therapist should be handled with more care. You can't strong arm someone into doing something, even if the T is being clearly unethical. Respect and kindness is the best way to support the poster. If one keeps attacking their T, is only serves to alienate the other poster, making them leave maybe their only support system because they feel unsupported and judged.

Even in an unethical situation with a T, you have to remember that the client could be very well attached to their T, in fact it is very common. With so many people in therapy due to formal abuse situations, they may not even see a T being abusive, and it may take time before they are able or strong enough to leave them. It is a delicate situation and while we should say something if we see a problems, it shouldn't get to point where it becomes abusive. There is a real problem when this happens when a T's behavior is in the gray area.

With the new section about clients having romantic feelings for their T, you can see an increase in posts that talk about actual unethical behaviors in T's because they tend to go together. Now most situations are going to be common erotic transference where a T knows how to handle this correctly. But there are more unethical T's then we really know about because it usually doesn't get reported like it should.

I think there should also be some articles saved at the top for the warning signs of a T being unethical, so a poster can look those over whenever, and doesn't get bombarded with anther poster telling them that their T is being unethical.

For me who has been in the situation of having an unethical T, I know trying to force me into believing my T was unethical didn't work. But reading articles did along with posters being gentle about it. It isn't like a client can just turn off their feelings and attachments for a T (regardless of the type of feelings) and just leave them.

I feel we lost a valuable poster who was a great source of support to others, and all because she wasn't respected in the end because she didn't agree with all the numerous attacks against her therapist. There are just a better ways for respondents to respond to their feelings about seeing red flags in someone else therapy.

I am writing about this publicly because I feel this an important topic and I don't believe in shoving problems under the rug. (something I learned doesn't work) I would like to hear from Doc John mostly, as he is the one who can change things and put guidelines in place here.