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In the state where I live you have to provide documentation that you are stable if you've been under treatment for mental health problems when you apply for licensure.
In my opinion, the key factor is whether the therapist has their own problems under control. There are some people in the field who are in worse shape than their clients. Again, in my opinion, their license should be suspended until they are better.
No everyone who enters the field did so because of their own struggles with mental illnes, but many did. Speaking from personal experience, I used to be dissociative, had many of the diagnostic criteria for PTSD and have major depression. Through years of hard work in therapy and the appropriate meds my symptoms are either gone or under control. I can say that my own struggles give me insight into what my clients are dealing with.
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