Was My Therapist Abusive Too?

[PTSDfree]

It's been close to one and a half years since I last saw her, but I can't help but feel that something was wrong. Here's some things that made me feel suspicious:

• Telling me about how her dad sexually abused her in great detail (I was not sexually abused. Besides, her father worked in her office.)
• Threatening to send me off to a mental hospital against my will if I didn't want to take antipsychotics or stop taking a very high dose of benzos (this happened multiple times) and using other similar threats
• Trying to convince me that me that my dad sexually abused me THEN asking me to prove my virginity when I insisted he never did
• Charged me $300 for some sort of genetic psychiatric medication testing and never shared the results

I basically had my final straw with therapists after seeing her, and shortly found a supportive psychiatrist that helped me wean off of all of my medications.

 

[Deleted member 29920]

Yes, all of the above sound very wrong to me. Did you or can you report her? She shouldn't be practicing in my opinion

 

[VioletButterfly]

Oh my gracious, YES, she abused you. How horrible. I've was in that spot for 3 years and it is a layer of my CPSTD that has complicated all real abuse that did/might have happened before it. It took me 4 years to begin to walk out of the fog of her brainwashing and abuse. A lot of damage was done in the midst of treatment, in the interim since, and continues now as I strive to overcome what she did to me as well as healing from what I do know was real abuse growing up and as an adult, and just plain bad parenting. I am so glad you have found a good psychiatrist to work with you on medication. Maybe in time you can bring yourself to consider therapy again to work out what was done to you by this very unprofessional therapist. I'm truly sorry and am sending healing vibes your way. VB

 

[PTSDfree]

Yes, all of the above sound very wrong to me. Did you or can you report her? She shouldn't be practicing in...

I have no clue about reporting her or how to do so. I did write a bunch of bad reviews about her online and described what she said/did to me, though.

Oh my gracious, YES, she abused you. How horrible. I've was in that spot for 3 years and it is...

Thank you. It was all very confusing and the main thing that sorta switched on my PTSD symptoms was around the same time so I didn't understand much of what was going on. My dad thought that she was a great person and I just needed to listen until he realized that she was trying to present him as a child molester.

 

[VioletButterfly]

I understand your response. I was looking to be helped, not harmed. I didn't really know what she was doing. She acted like she cared, just like my parents, but wrong is wrong. Hang in there and keep with the healing. VB