Anyone ever fall for their therapist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, when I was in college struggling with bipolar disorder. It was amazing at first but the excitement wore off after a few months, and we got sloppy... another client figured it out I think based on how his office smelled, and reported him to whatever board is responsible for ethics. We cut it off after that.

Hey, doc, how come it always smells like a slaughterhouse in here after your sessions with that one gal?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason going to therapy is bad in most cases!

Seriously. These people sound like creeps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason going to therapy is bad in most cases!

Seriously. These people sound like creeps.

There's a disturbingly high number of therapists who went into the profession to work on their own stuff, didn't, and now have power/authority over vulnerable people who they exploit. And outing them is incredibly difficult, because it's so easy to paint the reporting patient as "crazy" or disturbed, not the victim of disturbing behavior by someone with a duty to adhere to a higher moral and ethical standard.

It's really hard to screen a therapist when you're injured. If you were working correctly, you wouldn't need them in the first place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yet another reason going to therapy is bad in most cases!

Seriously. These people sound like creeps.

There's a disturbingly high number of therapists who went into the profession to work on their own stuff, didn't, and now have power/authority over vulnerable people who they exploit. And outing them is incredibly difficult, because it's so easy to paint the reporting patient as "crazy" or disturbed, not the victim of disturbing behavior by someone with a duty to adhere to a higher moral and ethical standard.

It's really hard to screen a therapist when you're injured. If you were working correctly, you wouldn't need them in the first place.

Just wanted to chime in on this.

When I think back to my young adulthood, it was the kids in my college with the most mental issues that were interested in psychology. If I had a tricky issue in my personal life, I’d ask the normal well adjusted people first and those people second.

Obviously if you’re literally bipolar and need meds, you need support from people that have studied the disease from a scientific perspective. But if you’re just generically under mental stress, therapy may be a mixed bag.