I saw this thread yesterday but was too busy to post.
Glad I found it because I had a therapist once that was scary.

warning to those who want to only hear positive things and think the world should be all kittens and sunshine - put me on your ignore list NOW because my world has kittens and sunshine and good therapists and one particular idiot therapist and that is just the way it is in my world. I didn't create it, I'm just here to share.

My personal therapist is a jewel. Wise, patient, kind, intelligent and thoughtful. I will keep her. There. I said five nice things about my good therapist. Is everybody happy? <sarcasm>

But when I was in a partial care program for four hours/day we had three therapists in the program and two were very good. But the other was cuckoo for cocoa puffs. It wasn't just one thing, or two things but she had incessant nonsensical moments. I referred to her as the "virtual therapist" when I told my Pdoc about her because she thought she was a therapist but I would like to have seen her college transcript. I tried to talk to her when she would say something particularly bizarre but she was not logical. Finally I asked to meet with the manager and for forty-five minutes I told her what had been going on that she needed to know. She took notes while I was telling her things so I knew she took me seriously.

Okay there must have been a gazillion and it has been a few years but what topped the list of unhelpful?

This one was not only unhelpful but it actually was harmful if you believed it.

"Every time you go into the psychiatric hospital you get on more and more meds and you always come out in worse condition and you never get better"

So I have been in psych hospital perhaps a dozen times so at this point according to her logic I guess I should give up because nothing can make me better so I should do what? Lock myself in my closet?

I know that a few of the other clients wanted to go in hospital. Not sure why, perhaps they felt cared for, perhaps it felt more safe, perhaps life on the outside was overwhelming. Not sure.

I think that maybe the virtual therapist was trying to discourage them from wanting to go to the hospital. But if so she sure did go about it the wrong way because instead of learning people's real issues and needs she created some kind of bizarre fantasy logic that made sense to her but no sense to the rest of us.

I told my Pdoc her statement. My Pdoc threw her hands up in the air in frustration and said great so if she is right then why are you and I wasting our time here?

Okay. That was the most unhelpful. But I'll be back with more (to those of you who have not yet put me on ignore)