I acknowledged that was inappropriate language. Why are you troubled by this post but not the ones I was replying to, which are insulting and attacking? Are we going to play games here or be honest with each other?

I post sometimes provocative and inflammatory things about the therapy system. But not about people here (I hope I haven't). I accept that there will be blowback. But there have been plenty of times where the responses have crossed the line, including this thread. Hostility toward the few posters here who are critical of therapy is consistent but rarely acknowledged.

Anyone here could find themselves on the outside looking in. Serious betrayal in therapy is paradigm-setting stuff. I wonder what others here would do if in the middle of intense transference, attachment, vulnerability, crisis, etc your T bailed on you? Perhaps you'd come here and rage about it too? I previously had nothing bad to say about therapy, was committed to working hard at it, took risks, etc. With my last T i was something of a model client, and she knows it, totally undeserving of what she pulled.

A quote about therapy in the context of PTSD and extreme abandonment fears, an ironic statement on the absurdity of abandonment in therapy:

"The therapeutic alliance is a contract between patient and therapist, which provides a safe environment where abandonment is not an option."