Hello, I joined this forum because I need help. Please, this thread isn’t intended to be about venting, bashing or blaming and is discouraged. I need to know I am not alone when it comes to therapy abuse. The topic that seems to be erased, hidden, or ends up blaming or discrediting the client to keep this “dirty little secret” hidden.

Is there anyone who has experienced abuse from a therapist? Things like taking the traumas you discussed privately and painfully, turned it around and portrayed you as the abuser in their notes. Fabricated things in their notes that didn’t happen in sessions. Used gaslighting , an example,(giving a test on computer, then denying it when it was brought up as seeming inappropriate under the conditions.).

If abuse from a therapist has happened, how has it effected your mental health? Did you seek therapy for the trauma afterwards? How are you dealing with it ?😔

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