A little story to share

Hello everyone,

I knew I'd been suffering from something else besides my physical ailments after my car accident in 1993. The accident left me damaged beyond repair, but it also left me without the strength to fend off an intruder. The intruder, a therapist, whom repeatedly for years had abused my mind. After my accident he wanted to abuse my body. That's when I became so afraid to leave my home that I completely shut out the big beautiful world. In 1997 the "therapist" was arrested for raping one of clients. I gathered all the mental and physical strength I could and proceeded to indulge the courts of my ordeal with this therapist. Guess what? Because I am diagnosed with having a mental illness, I was ignored again. My pleas to rid the health and welfare of this monster were disreguarded. He was aquitted of his rape because the client too was mentally ill. Needless to say the therapist is still out in the world, probably still tormenting his clients. I wish the mentally ill could have a voice that could be heard and not ignored.
For a long time now I have lived inside my "Safe Zone" and not ventured out. I wrote a book compiling the stories from my journels to share them with others who suffer from this uncaring disease. Just remember, life is not punishment, it's a reward. My book is called, Driving in Squares: Dreaming in Circles. If anyone wants to learn a little more of how life is like living with mental illness, I know my book can explain a bit about it. Never give up on dreaming.

The world is a huge puzzle and we, humankind, are the pieces of this puzzle. I wish we all could work together to find our proper places then the world would be a big beautiful masterpiece.

Welcome to the site. Hope you aren't just here to promote your book but WOW how I can identify with it's title really good one!

Yeah I know how frustrating it is to be mentally unwell... and how sure, things can be said in therapy but... my therapist is the greatest and well, he is all but perfect (yeah, he's not perfect, he's still human but really cares and keeps his patients "safe.")

I am sorry for your experience. Really. I have often had the same discussion with my T: how he can tell me how I really am, how the insurance co. can't do this and that.. but when I am out in the real world, hey- like who is going to believe me, I'm mentally unwell.

and what am I supposed to say, I'm not crazy, my therapist tells me so?

Wondering, is there a local rape abuse center or group that you could link up with, I'm sure they would listen and support, and maybe best of all --- word of mouth information like that still gets around....

There's a psychiatrist here that treated me (briefly) like well unacceptable... No one believed me. I finally recorded a session so I was sure of what was being said. I was right, and quit the guy fast! He was later kicked out of the local hospital pain clinic and branded a quack. But you know what? He's still in practice. The system just doesn't work.

I had an opportunity to run him over once... he was walking in the roadway and hey--I'm mentally unwell-- but I am better than he, and of course, went around him. I don't even think I gave him any sign language.

Keep trying. do what you feel you have to do to be safe.. and if it really is in YOUR best interest to pursue the punishment of this guy.

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LOL! I love that about running him over, but instead used sign language. No, I'm not just here to promote my book, even though I am really proud to have one published. I'm here because I need to vent and I think I may be halpful at times to those who think they are alone with what they are dealing with. I'm not an avid fan of the computer so I may be a bit nieve when it comes down to really communicating on it. I hope it won't be a burden to those of you who seem to really know what you are doing. I love the little moving pivtures, by-the-way. Thank you again for the welcome, SkyBdark.
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The world is a huge puzzle and we, humankind, are the pieces of this puzzle. I wish we all could work together to find our proper places then the world would be a big beautiful masterpiece.