Worst Therapist Experience?

[Pyro]

I once had a therapist that would stir up drama between me and my mom, encourage negative behavior, and constantly talked about herself.
I remember in middle school, she sent me to a really bad state mental hospital that was meant for children with bad behavior, not mental illness. They ended up just giving me a bunch of zoloft, adhd meds, and a bunch of other medicines for things I don't have.

What's your worst therapist experience?

 

[Friday]

You might be interested in this thread >>> Worst Therapist Story

 

[grit]

I am learning that bad therapy is just as common as bad ex relationship. the main difference is an ex can hurt you equally you can hurt them but a therapist can truly destroy one's selfhood just as much as whatever brought us to therapy in the first place.

However, the more I grow and integrate, I feel what makes a bad therapist is not owning making a mistake. I think if a therapist could say I am sorry I asked that question or made that point or something as much or when issues are brought to them they are honest that even they are not god and make mistakes, many problems could be minimised.

I think there is a fear of litigation and reputation and therapists are not honest as much as the general population.
for me the worst was having an aggressive therapist (when my trauma was based on violence of physical and sexual aggression against me for 18yr) and maybe (I will give this much) I was in transference the whole time but she did not need to prove her point while I was not even here and now. she did not have the patience to wait until I come back to the reality we shared (here and now) but no...she wanted to bury me back in my trauma transference and when I woke up and listen rather than talk, I realized wow! she still think I am there in the past and does not even know my functional side! well it was a time to leave.

The fall out was I woke up without guidance and had gained real memories of my past in real live! painful but I can live after my mother's failure, I am not about to give up for another person. I felt the pain and still stay in the body.

 

[whiteraven]

I've had several. But the very first I saw, a school psychologist, heard from a friend that I was talking about suicide. He called us both into his office and told me that he had called me there so I could reassure my friend that I was only talking about suicide to get attention.

 

[somerandomguy]

Second runner-up is the therapist who reacted with shock, horror, and revulsion when I told him that I was having homicidal fantasies about my abuser.

First runner-up is the sex therapist who agreed completely with my wife's assertion that all I needed was an attitude change. When I pressed him on how I was supposed to do that, his only solution was "Just change it." He and my wife ganged up on me session after session, week after week. This is the same dipshit who was proud to show us his bodybuilding photos of him wearing nothing but oil and thong briefs.

But the winner was the first couples therapist that my ex-wife/abuser and I went to see. When my ex-wife told her FALSELY that she had never willingly had sex with me - in other words, she called me a rapist - the therapist didn't challenge that assertion and even affirmed it. My head exploded, I forevermore thought of myself as a rapist, and my ex-wife used her professionally-affirmed claim to gaslight me as a rapist, which led to her eventually physically, emotionally, and sexually abusing me.

EDIT: wow, I posted almost this exact same thing in the other thread.

 

[ImSad]

I’m sure I’ve had worse, but the one coming to mind is the first time that I saw a particular therapist a couple years ago, she basically told me she hated her job. She said she was trying to get into a different field. Then when I told her my concerns and what I’d like to work on, she’d just say that it wasn’t really a problem. Only made it about 3 sessions with her.

 

[synchronicity]

I once had a therapist tell me that I was just using the distress of trauma as an excuse for eating disorder behaviors. Sufficiently to say, I felt so much shame and that I was just "making it up" and was a horrible person which just made the behaviors worse. She never asked about the trauma stuff and just rolled her eyes at me a lot.

 

[LuckiLee]

The first T my guy saw at the VA was young and inexperienced. He tried to diagnose him while reading a text book. Needless to say J was furious and told him so (with a few choice words). He still mentions that dumbass every once in awhile.