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Old Jan 08, 2018, 09:41 AM
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Originally Posted by JacksonLiam View Post
If my T doesn't call today, I am done with therapy and I will never seek out another therapist again. I think this is all a sham. Most therapists cause more harm than good and rob us blind while they do.
It sounds as if you have been hurt in some way by your therapist not calling you and not warning you about the office closure, etc. By his "neglect" and disrespect of you. Is that correct?

Can you say specifically, what about that is hurtful or intolerable?

I have had that happen, too -- a lot. And I continued to go to therapy because I "believed" in the process, for a variety of (not very good) reasons.

I don't go any more. Realizing the horrible feeling of being disrespected by my last therapist eventually triggered the horrible realization that I had been disrespected by and within my family, probably from the beginning. An intolerable situation, one that was covered over with lots of "defenses" and numbing out, probably.

So, that may be the "job" of therapy, to uncover that -- but the next step, how to build or rebuild a life they have no help for. Which is why, IMO, the process can be so harmful.

I believe it would have been very hard for me to "survive" the realizations over the last 18 months since my last therapy ended, without PsychCentral and the support of people here and the opportunity to vent.

Have you tried posting about your issues in some of the other forums, like Depression or Grief and Loss? Just a thought.
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kecanoe
Thanks for this!
kecanoe