Thread: Am I manic?
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Old Oct 17, 2016, 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by LucyG View Post
The therapist needs clients, and the way to keep them is to make them emotionally dependent on the therapist so they come in every week. If a person needs to counsel about a specific thing, that's one thing, but I see people going into counseling and going every week for 20 years, and they're less secure and more unhappy at the end of it than when they began.
This is WILDLY unethical. Can you anonymously report your sister's therapist to whatever board she is licensed through? Encouraging emotional dependency is explicitly against mental health ethics codes and is the kind of thing that a person can lose their credentials for. Of course, it's difficult to prove, but multiple complaints might be taken seriously.
Thanks for this!
bizi