Once upon a time a therapist violated every boundary in the book (yes, I read the book) except the sexual boundary, then retired and changed her research focus from eating disorders to:
“Termination of psychotherapy clients – how and how not to do it.”
Based upon my exit from her office, I can attest that her skill set was desperately in need of research. Yet I blame myself. I had asked her at one point how we might go about it, and she said, “I don’t know.”
And there you go. This therapist wasn’t the only experience I had in treatment that did more harm than good. There was also the clinic that falsely advertised aftercare that was nonexistent. There was the therapist who died of a brain tumor. The insurance that ran out. Et cetera.
The rule of thumb about “therapy” is: you get out of it what you put into it. The reality of it is: sometimes you just slip through the cracks. The only way I can think of to bring some good out of it is tell my story and hope some other patient, somewhere, somehow, learns when they should run away, fast. Maybe there’s even a therapist out there willing to learn a lesson.
Telling my story will give you a good review of a current treatment center, and a picture of one in the late 1980s, so while I’m at it I plan to incorporate in-depth reviews of the online profiles of many other treatment centers.
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I am planning to start posting again very soon
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