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Originally Posted by Sheffield
Thanks for your post wishfulthinker-
Im intrigued by interpretation of my post as “ easy to say as an outsider-“no where did I suggest that looking at oneself when feeling retraumatised .was easy-I’m fully aware that therapists are capable of throwing perfectly timed missiles at us if they choose ,that they can be abusive power junkies and that whether we like it or not they can also be human and have perfectly reasonable limits of tolerance of their own
I’m just saying that we have not ,strictly,always suffered a wrong-doing from another even though it definitely feels that way in the present and our history tells us it is definitely that way
Just my thoughts-I wasn’t there and didn’t intend to devalue OP,s situation
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Hi Sheffield,
Thank you for sharing your perspective. You are welcome to think what you want, but I should let you know that these kinds of things do happen. While it is easy to stand back and blame the survivor for abuse - there is always more to the story. I know what I did wrong - I threatened a lawsuit against a 70 billion dollar healthcare organization. I had every right to do so and thinking back I should have filed one. Is this my problem? Something that indicates a pattern of neurosis in me? Well - no, I have only ever threatened a lawsuit once and I saw the ramifications, why would I do it again?
Also, I welcome you to research and explore therapy abuse before making comments about trauma in therapy. You may not know this - but I have deeply explored my trauma and I have had several professionals acknowledge the problem and help me battle the guilt and shame that these malignant narcissistic psychopaths had dropped on me. This is a classic tactic utilized by abusers. I actually blamed myself for years. I believed the lies. It took a long time to gain perspective and after years of researching therapy abuse, I have discovered I am not alone.
What I have realized is that I have been wronged by people whose job it is to help but instead chose to harm. Institutional betrayal is indiscriminate and non specific to healthcare; it happens all around the world because people in power abuse their power and have things to hide. Rather than admitting to these things - they carry out character smear campaigns and coverups and intimidate survivors into silence...
Tell me, if that happened to you - would you blame yourself?
Thanks,
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