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Then Monticello was hurt by horrible posts about doctors.
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If I was hurt by threads I kept reading and brought this topic up to my therapist, he'd say I was hurting myself by reading the content of the threads. He might also mention how this would in effect position myself in a victim role.
Psychiatrists and therapists label people with trauma histories as "personality disordered" in numerous books, journal articles, websites, blogs. In my opinion, it does not get more offensive, demeaning, and stigmatizing than that. People are labeled for life, affected not only by the original traumas, but repeated marginalization, discrimination, or stigmatization after being labeled, including poor healthcare treatment from medical providers. Marked in their medical records for life. Talk about horrible....
There are doctors, through publications and blogs, who explain how their depression is not a 'mental health condition' but rather that it's 'job burnout', setting themselves apart from the patients they treat.
There are also systematic problems in the medical industry, and I think that contributes to the more global language. I don't see threads that label all doctors as bad. Not saying they don't exist, but I don't recall coming across any like that. I recall one you mentioned was posted by someone revently gaslighted and traumatized by either therapists or doctors. Maybe its unempathetic to silence people who are hurting.