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Originally Posted by stopdog
I think someone who is trying to decide whether or not to try therapy deserves to see that there are many sides and experiences that others have had with therapy. For some, they think they it saved their life, for other - they had an adverse experience, and still others somewhere in the middle. I think a client going in deserves to know it is not always as beneficial as the industry portrays itself.
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I think this is super important -- speaking for myself, reading stuff about adverse experiences in therapy (especially here on PC) actually allows me to prepare myself with eyes wide open and engage a lot better with the therapy I'm currently in.
Else, looking at therapy entirely as a field comprising of benignly altruistic folks who will always have my best interests at heart makes me distrust myself (specifically coz my therapy experiences haven't all exactly been positive) which in turn ironically, messes up my therapy experience.
And, also is kinda crazy-making (especially brings up my anxiety that I somehow have the ostrich-head-buried-in-the-sand attitude going on).