IG, my wish is that you can put away self-recrimination around what happened and see the blame where it belongs--with the therapist. It was solely her responsibility to keep treatment on track and to take stock, get her own consultation and take care of business if the relationship went awry. You're doing the job she can't handle by severing this.

You even said there wasn't a 100 percent consensus about your diagnosis, so I wish you could put aside that label. I do know that you're gracious here and acknowledge our feedback, etc. I appreciate that.

I've meet a few of the women from TELL and a couple of others in person recovering from harmful therapy. Despite extremely intelligent, competent women,they found harmful therapy extremely disorienting and confusing. Likewise are reports of Deborah Lott's In Session, Yvonne Bates' Shouldn't I be Feeling Better by Now, Dorothy Tennov's Psychotherapy, the Hazardous Cure.

You seem to have far more clarity and composure than I did when I first fled. Bad therapy has all the earmarks of cult brainwashing. Untangling it isn't easy for the strongest person.