I originally "respected" my therapists because of the professional "authority" their credentials indicated. I ascribed certain qualities to them. They played shamanic roles with me, affecting wisdom they really didn't have, counterfeiting an omniscience they of course never possessed.

Like someone pulled into a cult, I was fooled for a while. The traumatic bonding was like leaving a cult, separating from someone who was supposed to help me but who never helped me. Now in my reflections, and reading I can see why therapy was so harmful for me. I wish I'd never gone.