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Originally Posted by unaluna
Part of what IS controlled on PC is that it is supposed to be a safe place, no perps allowed, only supportive posts. That is a given.
Why i find many of "the other side's" posts upsetting is that they tend to sound like my perps - saying there is no other way, "those people" just want to take advantage of you, stay with the devil you know.
This chicken is trying to cross the road to the other side. I thought this website was the road to the other side. Im not really interested in all the clucking from those who insist on staying in the henhouse!
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I think we tend to hear things in therapy criticism/skepticism that aren't really there, or at least aren't intended even if we read into them. I'm guilty of it. Again, it can be hard to read criticism when you feel like you're constantly defending the legitimacy of your own treatment.
And some of us do feel like we're doing that--though this probably has more do to with things going on outside this forum than in it.
The result is that even fairly innocuous statements like "Exercise may work better to treat depression than talk therapy" start to sound like "Get on your bike, fatty! You wouldn't be so depressed if you weren't so gigantic!" More inflammatory statements along the lines of "Therapy is BS!" can sound like "**** it. You're doomed. You're never going to get better."
I get it. I'm guilty of it. I think some of us could do a better job distinguishing between what's actually said vs what our various neuroses twist it into.