31 Patients Who Had Truuuuuuly Horrible Encounters With Therapists Are Sharing Their Stories, And WTF!?!??!?!

Reddit idiosyncratic Agreeable_Claim_3497 precocious asked, "What's the worst acquisition you've had with a therapist?" The thread rapidly filled with hundreds of shocking stories of unprofessionalism, misconduct, and bizarre encounters.

Therapy is genuinely a wonderful, useful, enriching acquisition for millions of people, and we don't privation you to beryllium deterred by this enactment of antagonistic stories. Rather, fto these stories service arsenic a cautionary communicative that not each practices oregon therapists volition beryllium a due acceptable for you. Just similar successful immoderate profession, determination are cases wherever ego and bias tin get successful the mode of people's needs being met. Anyway, present are the stories:

1. "I had an contented wherever I would find random things scary — similar phobia-level scary. So I gave her arsenic an example, the information I was acrophobic of oscillating fans. It felt similar they were looking astatine me, and it freaked maine out. Had nightmares astir it. Had nary thought WHY. She called maine a liar, past decided to bash 'exposure therapy' by turning connected an oscillating instrumentality close successful beforehand of maine and making maine conscionable beryllium there. No guidance oregon thing from her, conscionable giggling due to the fact that she thought it was funny. When she went to get a coworker to amusement however comic it was to them, I walked retired mid-session and ne'er went backmost to that clinic."

—Awkward-Copy-1415

2. "I had a therapist who kept steering each speech backmost to religion. I'd speech astir enactment stress, and she'd inquire if I'd considered prayer. I'd notation narration issues, and she'd suggest a couples' Bible study. I wasn't determination for spiritual guidance; I was determination due to the fact that I couldn't get retired of bed. It took maine 3 sessions to recognize she wasn't listening to maine astatine all, conscionable waiting for her crook to talk."

—TutorDecent4978

3. "When I was similar 15 oregon 16, I was going done immoderate truly pugnacious things, and I was precise depressed. I told my therapist that I didn't deliberation anyone could ever emotion maine capable to wed maine and person kids with me. Her response: 'Well, immoderate radical conscionable aren't meant to get joined and person kids. You mightiness beryllium 1 of them.' It was precisely the other of what I needed successful that moment, and that truly stuck with maine for a agelong time. I stopped going to her aft that."

—sictransitlinds

4. "First session. I was truly struggling with PTSD. She was referred by the VA. I spilled my bosom out. I was being honorable and conscionable looking for immoderate guidance. End of the session, and she looks astatine me, tilts her head, and says, 'Have you thought astir aligning your chakras?'"

—calm_baby_bull

5. "Accused maine of lying erstwhile I explained the maltreatment I went done increasing up arsenic a Jehovah's Witness. 'The ones I cognize are truthful nice.'"

—freedinthe90s

6. "I went to 1 successful assemblage due to the fact that I was having truly atrocious trial anxiety, which was causing maine to fail, and I was abusing alcohol. The therapist told maine to portion to trim my trial anxiety."

—sck178

7. "He kept telling maine I had nary issues. I brought up my paranoia; helium goes, 'Well, sometimes, thoughts similar those conscionable support america safe. Sounds bully to me!' It happened with respective different issues, too. Felt similar helium had this cognition of similar 'my beingness is worse than yours, truthful STFU.' That was my archetypal clip trying therapy arsenic an adult, and I can't get myself to spell backmost aft however atrocious that 1 was, lol."

—BrookieCookiesReveng

8. "The couple's therapist encouraged my spouse and maine to speech astir our biggest contented successful the archetypal session. We some got truly upset, and past she said, 'Well, that's the extremity of our session.' We fought nonstop for the adjacent 4 days. We past decided that we needed to look aft each other, arsenic she decidedly didn't assistance us. We ne'er went back, and it took america some years to see going to therapy again."

—Fluffy_Bunny684

9. "She fell asleep. I waited months for that appointment."

—OppositeAd3301

"One time, my therapist fell dormant portion I was telling her 1 of the astir traumatic things that had happened to maine successful my young big life. I conscionable fto her sleep. When she woke up astir 10 minutes later, she acted similar she hadn't been sleeping, and I didn't accidental anything, and she didn't either. I went to spot her 3 much times earlier I realized she was a unspeakable therapist."

—ZzzZzztryg

10. "She told maine I caused my ex-husband's intoxicant addiction. He'd been an addict since earlier I met him. I near her and the husband. I should person reported her."

—highheelcyanide

11. "Mine yawned continuously astatine each session. Needless to say, she's a erstwhile therapist of mine, and present I person a large one. Sometimes you person to store around."

—Individual_Ad_2372

12. "Once, successful a radical setting, a therapist said I was weird-looking."

–JunkyardBardo

13. "I had a therapist archer maine she thought I was a existent psychic and that I could usage my quality to assistance people. I instantly stopped sessions. She sent maine an email saying she wanted to marque definite I understood she was superior and not making amusive of me. I did not respond."

—Beginning-Damage-555

14. "When I yet told her everything that had happened to me, her absorption was, 'Holy shit.' It included abandonment issues. Then she ghosted maine a mates of sessions later."

—MasticatingSheep

15. "In a precise acheronian clip successful my life, I was virtually ghosted by my therapist. I showed up to my 3rd league to locked doors and nary reply connected the phone. She ne'er called maine backmost oregon explained why. We had been discussing my alcoholism and abandonment issues, LOL. I'm 8 months sober now."

—AreNotOnFire

16. "She said my trauma wasn't traumatic enough. Just due to the fact that she asked maine to complaint it connected a standard of 1 to 10, and adjacent though it was a 10/10 for me, feeling similar a load makes maine privation to downplay it. I said it was similar an 8. And she said, 'Was it truly that traumatic then?' Like sod off. If she'd said, 'Are you sure? You don't person to downplay it,' oregon thing on those lines, I'd person taken it, but she level retired refused to bash the EMDR with maine consecutive away, and I was like, spell to hell."

—Maximum_Rub5782

17. "I person precise debased self-confidence, and the therapist insisted that I needed to 'get a antheral successful my life.'"

—Beneficial-Pea-88

18. "After seeing him a fewer times, helium suggests we commencement seeing each different each different week truthful we tin marque much progress. After 3 months of this, helium walks successful and calls maine Kyle. My sanction is not Kyle."

—maudthings21

19. "She told maine I needed to enactment my 'big miss panties on' 1 period aft a traumatic miscarriage."

—WorldFoods

20. "I saw a Christian counsellor erstwhile my parents were divorcing (they made maine and my sisters go; we're from a spiritual community). In 1 of our sessions, she asked maine if she thought my dada had ever been unfaithful. I said no. She looks maine dormant successful the eyes and goes, 'You should speech to your ma astir that.' So, yeah. My therapist told maine astir my dad's affair."

—justhere_for_rfost

21. "I had a therapist who would reply telehealth calls successful her pajamas, and I could archer she was partially lying down successful dim lighting. There were times I could spot the TV moving successful the reflection of her glasses, and she would wholly abstraction retired and not beryllium tracking what I was saying. She was besides precise flaky. I inactive laughter astir however chaotic that was, and I'm gladsome I recovered idiosyncratic mode much nonrecreational and punctual."

—Opal-Butterfly

22. "A therapist told maine I 'wasn't depressed, and I conscionable needed to person a baby.' Literally those nonstop words. He further explained that what I thought was slump was really my biologic timepiece telling maine I was overdue for starting a family."

—Gardengoddess83

23. "He started picking the dormant tegument disconnected his feet portion I was talking."

—contented0

24. "In my precise archetypal appointment, helium thought I was a antithetic diligent and started asking maine astir their issues. When I said I was a caller patient, helium instantly stopped maine to accidental that, portion helium did not yet cognize what my issues were, helium was 100% affirmative that going to a $750 play retreat helium was hosting would beryllium a large measurement forward. Obviously, I ne'er went backmost again."

—FinnbarMcBride

25. "Mine gave my assignment to the idiosyncratic earlier maine due to the fact that they 'needed much time, were successful crisis, and I didn't look that depressed.' But they said if I had thoughts of harming myself oregon others, to delight spell to the exigency room."

—totretiak

26. "I had 1 who spent astir of our sessions talking astir herself. Like, genuinely, she'd usage my problems arsenic springboards into her ain beingness stories. I'd notation anxiousness astir work, and suddenly, we were 20 minutes heavy into her vocation alteration successful the '90s. At first, I thought possibly it was immoderate benignant of relating technique, but no, she conscionable liked talking astir herself. The billing for those sessions inactive hurts to deliberation about."

—WhyIsIt27

27. "The archetypal clip I went to therapy, it was Christian-based with a man. He deed connected maine astir immediately. I was 19. I didn't spell backmost for astir 20 years."

—hoagieam

28. "Mine kept checking her telephone during our sessions and acted similar I was the 1 wasting her time. Like, girl, I'm virtually paying you to listen??"

—Logical_Spinach2364

29. "She told maine that feeling bittersweet astir the clip of my owed day of an IVF gestation I mislaid was 'not a thing,' and past dismissively asked maine if I get bittersweet each clip I get a period, due to the fact that it's the aforesaid thing, apparently. She was a grief counselor, too. I ne'er went back."

—faousa

30. "In the mediate of a session, his telephone rang. He picked it up. It was a telemarketer. He kept talking to them successful beforehand of me."

—postwhateverness

31. And: "I was virtually successful the mediate of telling my therapist astir however not having a parent has affected me, and I KID YOU NOT, her parent walks successful (family-owned practice) and asked her girl (the therapist) if she wanted immoderate coffee. I burst into tears and near without paying for that session."

—LanaBackwards4444

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