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Originally Posted by stopdog
MKC I am sorry you went through this. I understand the idea that showing them anger meant they might have killed you. I felt like that too, although I doubt mine was really a possibility like yours was.
But I do not get how the therapist expressing sorrow or anger helps bump you past it. I generally think the therapist is either play acting to get a response from me or is simply too weak to be a therapist if my minor situation creates such a huge over reaction in them. And then will mock me if I get sucked in to agreeing it might have been a somewhat unpleasant situation.
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Stopdog, I really don't think there are very many therapists incompetent enough to mock you for believing that being physically abused as a child was bad. And I don't think they're trying to "suck you in" to anything. It really is a rotten thing to happen to a kid, hence the laws against it. It's an appropriate object for anger. It doesn't matter whether it happened to someone else or to you; it is objectively rotten. Maybe your parents were the wily wild animals that you couldn't turn your back on.