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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 659979" data-attributes="member: 17461">No.  You were not the betrayer.  There comes a time we tell ourselves the cost is worth the leap.  We give ourselves into the therapist's hands.They know this Copa.And we do not.We leap.  In our desperation, in our determination to have it and to heal it, we leap.I remember making that decision with that first therapist.  I discussed it with him.  I knew I had decided to leap.  I never in a million years understood that he was a jackass.  He was not someone anyone would notice upon entering a room.  He had his own practice, and there was bitterness there about those doctors ~ this was a holistic physician, remember, not even a bona fide therapist ~ affiliated with the Clinic.  There was a sign in his waiting room having to do with his freedom in practicing alone ~ that he could set his own schedule; that he could have coffee anytime or something similar.  Hello.Now I would know to leave.  Then, I knew I was determined to learn where I had gone wrong that these terrible things were happening with my child.This therapist had been recommended by a friend for my daughter.  She never would attend any sessions as she would attend nothing we set up for her in that time.  But that is how I found him.I am so grateful he did not work with her, other than that first appointment where D H and I were there with her, too.Copa, I burn with indignation for you.  To understand that we have chosen nakedly human, to know that we faced the shame of it down and spoke true, shaming things and the whole time, the jerks were not only taking our money but thinking who knows what dirty thoughts about us!Good for you Copa, for your courage in trying and for your determination to heal.  We are supposed to transfer whatever to the therapist.  If the incompetent boob cannot even perform that one small function for us without thinking dirty thoughts ~ I don't even know what to say.  But I do know that as I have begun talking about this, there are so many of us who have had similar things happen.  That's the thing.Therapy is where we willfully make ourselves vulnerable to heal.  While we are distracted trying to heal from these really crummy things that have happened to us, the freaking therapist is thinking dirty thoughts!Roar.Disgusting.  A gentleman would never perform in such a fashion.  Dirty little prying fingers therapists.I will post my poem about him for you, Copa.Cedar</blockquote>

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