I notice that when someone is terrorized by therapy, the extent to which they express that terror outside the four walls of therapy --whether in a forum like this or in an online review site or even when attempting to contact the therapist -- is automatically correlated with how resistant or confused they must be, and therefore how forcefully they need to be coaxed back into therapy. But seems obvious to me it's simply an indication of the extent of the damage done.

I see this as one manifestation of RCBS (Reflexive Client Blaming Syndrome).