I’m going to try to move a discussion here to avoid de-railing another thread. From that discussion:





I don’t know that I am a generally belligerent person, but I can be – especially when I thought I had permission – even encouragement – to try to get in touch with my feelings, to be myself and express my emotions, as best I could, in therapy.


Over and over again, when that belligerent “person”/part/alter/emotion showed up in therapy, therapists couldn’t handle it. I learned something about myself with each try and each therapy/therapist failure. But got additionally damaged with each try, too. I'm not going to try another therapist -- that would be foolish. The profession couldn't protect me from their incompetence and "bad apples", and I lacked the ability to protect myself.


To be angry at that situation, as now appears to be reality to me, seems justifiable and reasonable. Yet still debilitating, because there is nothing that I can do about it.