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How to Know if You Have an Abusive Therapist
How to Know if You Have an Abusive TherapistSpotting an abusive therapist may not be as easy as you think
This may be a strange thing to consider, but your therapist is, first and foremost, a regular person. No matter how many degrees, years of training, or fancy certificates, they are still human. With this, unfortunately, comes the reality that flaws will abound. Sometimes, in worst case scenario
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“Dissociation is numbness and nothingness; it is a feeling of being lost; it is floating on a cloud that threatens to suffocate; it is automatic speech and action without awareness or control; it is looking at the world and blinking to try to remove the blurry fog; it is hearing and seeing the immediate world and simultaneously feeling very far away; it is raw fear; it is unfamiliarity in familiar places; it is possession; it is being haunted everyday by unknown monsters that can be felt but not seen (at least not by others); it is looking in the mirror and not knowing who is looking back; it is fantasy and imagination; and, above all else, it is survival. Dissociation is all of these things and none of them at once.”
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“Of course, for many others, mental health services may be viewed as life-saving (and for some it also may be both and everything in between!). Certainly, there are numerous individuals helped by traditional mental health interventions and the dedicated individuals who spend their lives assisting others. The subject matter of this book is not about criticizing individual clinicians or negating the beneficent intentions of many mental health professionals. Rather, it is an exploration of the system as a whole, the ideas and assumptions that support the oppressive nature of mental health services, how current treatment practices impact many, especially those who are already marginalized and/or who have experienced severe complex trauma, and what people have found to be helpful, both in and out of the system, when recovering from childhood adversity (Part II).”
― Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services
― Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services
“7 It is common in the United States, and other Westernized countries, to allow for forced treatment (i.e., involuntary hospitalization, involuntary ECT, involuntary drugging) if a person is deemed incompetent or a danger to themselves. While some may assert that this is necessary to save lives, this is based on emotion and ideology, not the evidence. For instance, people who are considered to be an imminent threat for completing suicide are often hospitalized against their will, yet, the more involvement with coercive psychiatry, the more likely one is to actually die from suicide (Hjorthoj, Madsen, Agerbo, & Nordentoft, 2014).”
― Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services
― Trauma and Madness in Mental Health Services
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