Hello Finders ~ I concur with being asked if I liked being depressed and what would I feel if I were not depressed, being very inappropriate. I have no idea what point she was trying to make.


A thought just occurred to me... it verges along the line of "gas lighting" or "crazy making". My family used to gas light me while growing up and this comment makes me start to become aware this therapist may be a bully and out to cause harm to make that statement. She really is in a powerful position right now with me, but next time I visit with her, I will be ready and I'll have a list of questions to keep her busy answering. If she refuses to answer then that will be my last visit with her. I have never in all the years of my life been asked a question such as that. Sort of like "you grew up being told you had brown hair, yet you really had blond hair, now how would that make you feel?" My former spouse used to challenge my sense of perspective or perception of reality, being all wrong. I remember how that felt, and I felt that same sense of helplessness when she said that to me.


Yes, definitely red flags, lots of them. I will not be blindsided again by her.


Birdie