The Unsupportive Support Group From Hell

Did you know that therapists get divorced at a higher than average rate? Here is a link for reference: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199707/why-shrinks-have-problems

Are you surprised? I’m not, and I will be sharing one of many examples of why I am not surprised.

When I was a naiive, vulnerable, and extremely impressionable kid in my late teens who had constantly been brainwashed to have stockholm syndrome for the person who m*lested me, I made the uninformed decision to join a ‘support group’ that was ran by ‘trained, certified, credentialed, state-of-the-art mental health experts’ expecting relatively positive results. My expectations, however, were clearly far too high.

And the reason why I called it the ‘uninformed decision’ is because I did not know just how bad they really were in advance, and therefore I did not give true informed consent to join this group. I talked about this sort of idea about ‘uninformed consent’ in my YouTube video called “You don’t actually want to date the person who lovebombed and abandoned you”

A really f*cked up aspect of this story is the fact that I did not even fully piece together many of the incongruencies and unfair acts that this so-called ‘support group’ committed against me — until of course I got more neurons developed in my brain some time later. Some of these points that I’m about to make I did not even realize until around the time I turned 30 (which was about a month ago). In fact, just earlier yesterday…