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Originally Posted by PinkFlamingo99
Agree. It needs to be regulated. Reading stories on here makes me realize that bad therapy causing pain is way more common than I would have thought before. These people who we pay to rifle in our lives and hurt us at our most vulnerable-- even punish us for being sick, which is why we are there in the first place. I already tend to think that a lot of it is quackery, but now I'm convinced it can actually be commonly and actively hurtful. But maybe that's because I'm hurt.
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I am in same boat and share your view about the prevalence of damaging therapy, and the quackery question. I did not feel this way before last year.
One of the most crazy-making and absurd outcomes of my harmful therapy experience and termination is that the basis of termination was referrals from my old T and the idea that another T would save me. And yet, try getting another T to acknowledge that therapy itself might have caused harm, which would be the first order of business for someone who had just gone thru something traumatic, be it therapy or something else. And I mean really acknowledge it fully.