I think that SkyscraperMeow's post is right on. Psych. Central's Psychotherapy forum is an equal opportunity "closed thread" place. I've seen threads closed for too much therapy bashing and for overly zealous therapy gushing. To me, it seems that when the gushing or bashing gets too personal or attacking, the monitors swoop in and close things down so they can "discuss". I'm not sure what discussing goes on but it seems that most of the time, the thread just slides into oblivion because this is a pretty active forum.

I'm a person who has not been successful in therapy. I just can't seem to do it in a productive and healing manner, but I'm definitely a pretty positive person about seeing the value of therapy . . . BUT I am pretty vocal and adamant about situations in which I consider the therapy relationship being described by the poster as unhealthy. I know that I've encouraged people to leave their therapist, get a consultation or file a complaint if I thought things were really going off the rails. BUT I've also given advice to people suggesting they might want to slow down, talk to their therapist about what they're feeling and give their therapist another chance. Sometimes I've thought that people were too quick to bash therapy, but at other times, I've felt that people were too encouraging or supportive of situations that I thought were dangerous or at least, unhealthy emotionally. It's all individual.

As for the specific thread about psychotropic medication--I personally thought that was a great discussion with some wonderful points presented by BOTH sides. I don't think anyone was being bashed or thrashed or told not to post. I thought the links were interesting from both individuals. I think both people posting were very passionate about their view on the topic and that's a good thing for a lively, engaging, intellectual conversation BUT it did get the thread off the topic of the original poster and perhaps that was why it was closed.