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

Originally Posted by PurpleMirrors3

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I’m going to guess that a good number of clients who’ve experienced violent ideology might be stuck in a similar cycle - anger with no outlet which generates more anger.

There are obviously more than a handful of therapists who don’t get it. I understand that working with belligerent clients can be a difficult job, but I also think a good number of therapists are ill equipped to handle emotional turmoil. Seems most want to be idealized helpers and reap the warm fuzzies of the job without withstanding the harsh reality of the other side of human emotions. Anyone who does depth work with human beings should be able to accept all facets of a human personality.

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.