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Old Jul 03, 2015, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by puzzle_bug1987 View Post
I do see now I have choices, but during my bad therapy it wasn't really about choices. I knew I could leave at any time, but I believed I was going to get better. I believed he was helping me and I believed there would be a good ending one day. I did choose to stay, but I was hopeful that it would end well. I think a lot of people think they are being helped and things will work out well for them.

I am MUCH MUCH more aware now and much more skeptical and basically have no trust in therapy and I think it is good. I will not get into a bad situation again. I do hope the system changes. I am glad there is information out there about bad therapy. It is a shame many more people will end up hurt because of the flawed system.
I hear you. I feel exactly the same way. I cry when I recall how vulnerable I was to the influence of those who were in a position to help me but who harmed me instead. I do hold them responsible for what they did, but I hold the whole system more responsible in harming me than those individual therapists. After all, even when a therapist has best intentions, the system trains them in such a way that they will do harm inadvertently anyway. But then every system is made of individuals and so each person is responsible for how they deal with the system. Will they conform and stay willfully ignorant? Will they fight it from the inside? Will they leave it and raise public awareness about how it operates? I chose the latter. I left it and started raising public awareness of the ways in which it operates.

You and others who were harmed and who can see the reality the way it is have my full support. I know what it takes to stay true to yourself under the storm of attacks from all fronts - from professionals who refuse to take responsibility, individual and collective, from other victims who don't see themselves beyond their victim identity as well as from those victims who don't even recognize themselves as victims, who religiously believe in whatever their therapists tell them and who blame you for the abuse you took at the hands of your therapists..Stay strong and stay true to yourself. Don't give in to the need to identify yourself with any group. It's not worth it.
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