I agree with much of what you're saying and respect where you and many other posters are coming from. I know that a lot of people have been hurt by therapy and many of the accounts I've read on PC are horrific. My own experience as a consumer has not been particularly good either. With the exception of the T I saw up until the last year, I've never had any I've liked. There are a lot of therapists out there and I would guess that there more there are of anything, the harder it is to find one that's actually good.

We all make generalizations, I understand that. But this is a psychotherapy forum with many posters who have been helped. When you are in a dark place and someone helps you out of it, you tend to see that person as pretty important part of your life. It might even look a little like blind devotion, but that's what happens sometimes. Whether that's healthy or not isn't really up for someone here to judge. So it bothers me when posters on the other end of the spectrum who've had pretty awful experiences, invalidate these positive ones. Similar to the way some believe mental health professionals label or invalidate them, there is an implication in some posts that satisfied clients must be delusional or brainwashed. Everyone experiences therapy differently ad while I'll agree that there are a lot of people on this forum who've had horrific experiences, that is not the norm.

And like I've said before, with the advent of the Internet it is now possible for any hack to write an article or an ebook. I would take much of what is read in blogs, or on websites with a grain of salt and not view them as representing of the general T population.