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Originally Posted by puzzle_bug1987
I was pretty devastated and i know others who have been. Sometimes I think if i had known all the things I was supposed to know about therapists and therapy and how it works (which i don't think it does) I wouldn't have gone to therapy. I would not have thought I needed it.
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I'm not saying no one can be devastated by therapy; that's obviously untrue. From what I recall of your story, it's pretty horrible.
I also think hardly anyone goes into therapy knowing what they're "supposed" to know. I sure didn't. Which is one reason to discuss therapy - including the horror stories and urging skepticism - on a public forum like this.
But if I understand what you are saying, you did not feel you had the power to leave. May I ask why not? How was what seems a very basic power removed? Did the therapist convince you explicitly or implicitly that you couldn't leave without becoming worse, etc.?