#also shoutout to the apologist therapist for diagnosing me with ocd/ptsd and then not trying to help me treat it

[abyssbirds]

Had something similar (not the same) to this ^. Abusive stepmother with abusive demands, and the therapist sided with her because stepmom was "looking out for [my] safety." Another therapist refused to see what my mom did throughout my life as abuse/neglect because my mom was an addict and "trying her best." To this day I still struggle with whether or not what happened was bad enough.

i do think therapy recommenders on here wildly irresponsibly downplay its potential risks lmao starting obviously w/ the threat of psych and criminal institutionalisation which is structurally inherent to the patient-physician relationship but also the maybe more mundane risk of simply receiving treatment that is bad for you and counterproductive. i do not know where the idea came from that therapy is 'at worst useless'. at worst it fucks you up majorstyle