Thank you for this reminder. It's important for everyone who was harmed in therapy to remember that they are not alone.

My biggest wish is for this issue to be more widely recognized and validated. But that depends on how openly and courageously each one of us speaks out about this publicly. No one notices you until you make noise, don't go away and make people notice you.

My other wish is for all survivors to accept each others experiences and their ways of coping and healing without judgments. My way of understanding and overcoming this trauma may be different from yours and yours may be different from mine. This does not invalidate either one.

Way too often I see victims of this abuse lashing out at each other and hurting each other just because they feel like a different way in which someone else processes traumatic experience somehow invalidates their own experience, their own personal story. This attitude diminishes the potential benefit of any support group and often makes such groups more hurtful than helpful for some members. At the time when such little (next to nothing) support and so few resources are available to survivors, it seems to me like the last thing we all need is to **** on each other. Whatever the differences of opinion we might have on this subject, I believe, it's perfectly possible to express it respectfully without the intention to hurt and then to continue to support those who might disagree with us on one thing or another, because this is a wise and compassionate thing to do.