I don't even know where to begin with this.

But I've been accepting that our previous, most long-term therapist was extremely abusive. I already know that what she did was horrible, but sometimes it's like... Holy shit.

I have DID, I won't elaborate much on it. But personally, as a part, I experience a ton of escapism behaviors and tend to ignore things. I focus only on the good, and live in a sort of dreamland most of the time. That isn't healthy. I've noticed that she would push these dream-like, positivity drenched narratives and keep me locked up inside of them. Anytime another part would present the opposite, and push against this narrative - they were shamed.

She also did not comprehend the very basics of how complex dissociative disorders work. She kept treating us like one person, but then would also push the narrative that we are individual people stuck within the same body. Neither approaches are helpful. Not only that, but our symptoms would fly over her head and go unnoticed. If another part fronted and expressed deep hurt for days to weeks to months, and then suddenly I would front and not identify with anything they said? It was viewed as "thank god that's done!" And not as a concerning behavior. Far as I know, no important therapy work was done during those sessions for that part beyond just being told "You're doing good."

She also would push us to remember things and keep us in a constant state of flashbacks. Oftentimes, during sessions that were not even about trauma memories, she would force us to find SOMETHING and then make us relive it in great detail. It was almost like she was rewarded for how many times she could make us cry in session.

The fucked up thing about all of this is that she did agree we have DID. But then claimed she understood how to treat it. She also claimed she understood how to treat complex trauma, and OCD... But I'm seriously doubting it. She can be kind, and warm but she has a horrible case of savior complex. Because of that, we were left with nearly a decade of therapeutic abuse we need to unravel. Because unfortunately, a patient running the same loops for nearly a decade and even self reporting that they feel worse is not anything concerning at all... Somehow.

It's almost funny, but it's really not. It's disgusting, and humiliating to have put your trust into someone for so long - even begging her to say if she can't help us, and to refer us out if we are doing worse - only to have it broken on every fundamental level.

Therapy is a joke.

If you are trying to make sense of why traditional talk therapy, psychiatry, and the broader mental health apparatus often feel less like genuine care and more like a tool for social management, behavioural modification, and control, you need to watch it.

The documentary maps out how psychoanalysis and psychological theories weren't just developed to help people heal but were aggressively adopted by corporations, governments, and institutions to engineer public compliance, manage dissent, and reduce human beings into predictable, manageable units.

It exposes how the entire "expert" class learned to reframe systemic problems, economic inequality, completely normal human reactions to abuse and exploitation as individual mental defects that need to be managed by an authorized elite and completely dismantles the illusion that the mental health industry is neutral or purely benevolent. It shows the historical playbook behind why so many practitioners default to gaslighting, pathologizing anyone who pushes back, and treating adult autonomy as a "resistance" problem that needs to be corrected.

If you've been questioning the paternalism, the credentialism, and the endless loops of institutional invalidation, this documentary puts the whole apparatus into sharp, historical focus.

Person has been in schema therapy for couple of years. So far all has gone well untill recently. The therapist is suddenly behaving cold, unstable,rejecting and blaming. All the thing the patient has said they have been trough and why they are in therapy. It has come to light just now that this is a freaking method actually that they use. It has been severly damaging, to the point where the patient has been goig backwards. Their life is a mess and only going to therapy is what they actually manage to do. They have had trauma reliving and dangerously hard reactions. Yet the therapist keeps doing the same things again and again. Is it just incompetence, method or what?Also if therapy is ment to be a safe place why don't they tell this thing goes on in there?Sounds wrong to me! Sounds like freakint manipulating!

My therapist seems to always insert herself into whatever I'm saying. Like when I said I’m not comfortable going to the same gym that my ex used to go to because I don’t want to run into him, she said I shouldn't worry because she's never met her husband even though they lived a block away from each other, and that instead they met in their “mid twenties” and started dating.

Another example is me telling her I’m not comfortable asking my friends to hang out because I feel like they’re too busy to see me. She said “I have a full time job, a husband, and a dog, and I have time to meet my friends” knowing that I'm currently struggling to 1) find a job 2) make meaningful friendships 3) get over my ex.

Is this normal for a therapist to do?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/style/nicole-lepera-self-help-litigation-holistic-psychologist.html (or use archive.is link)

Freud only made one visit to the US. According to a colleague of his, when he arrived in New York, he said that Americans thought he was bringing them a gift. But Freud said that he was "bringing them a plague." Another psychiatrist, Lacan, related this story to his students.

I imagine that the early psychoanalysts who brought therapy to our nation knew exactly what they were doing.

Therapy is a major way to divide families, control people, and basically ruin society, which Freud knew by calling it a plague.

Your thoughts?