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Originally Posted by LittleAfrica
Cry me a river. Let people talk about their experiences of surviving unethical therapy. I'm not in any way now afraid of therapy because people are sharing their hurt. I'm old enough to make up my own mind. So you're a real-life product of psychiatric care-cheers to you. I do not however need any saving from 'salacious subject lines or posts that paint a ,skewed portrait of therapists and therapy". How about I decide that for myself, .
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In the denial of expertise we frequently tell ourselves that everyone is equally gifted with knowledge and that the ‘experts’ are, somehow, ignorant of their fields.
Certainly survivors of unethical therapy have every right to ‘share their hurt,’ — but feeding into that “I’m old enough to make up my mind,” mold, and the I’ll “decide that for myself,” goes back to the “I’m smarter than the experts,” mold.
Yes, I’m a product of 33 years of psychiatric care. You may need no psychiatric therapy intervention but many come here with concerns about therapy and might be turned away by the harmful and unethical sobriquets.
I don’t believe that most — or many — psychotherapists are unethical or harmful. That’s really the main message that I want to get across.