Denver Therapy Patients - When Therapy Hurts or Breaks Trust

Denver area Discussion about what people think your therapy is and what you might actually get. Denver-area people: Has therapy ever made things worse? Hi! I'm Carrie, and I'm starting a project called The Missing Step about something I don't think gets talked about nearly enough: what happens when therapy goes wrong? We hear a lot about going to therapy, finding a therapist, and how therapy can help. I want to hear about the other experiences too. Have you ever left therapy feeling that you were worse off than when you started? Felt misunderstood or repeatedly unheard? Had a therapist damage your trust? Had treatment go in a direction you didn't want? Had something happen that made you think, Wait—wasn't this supposed to help me? Even better if your clinician.current or former and can be honest about rupture repair, if that works and why. How and when it doesn't because there's that. I'm interested in talking with people who feel therapy harmed them and people who had a bad experience but eventually found a therapist who genuinely helped. I'd especially like to understand what went wrong—and what a better clinician did differently. I'm in the Denver area and would love to hear from other people locally, although I'm happy to talk with people elsewhere too. I'm considering developing these conversations into a podcast or interview project eventually, but talking to me does not mean agreeing to be recorded or published. Right now especially for me. It might be validating it might be helpful I don't know right now I'm by myself. That is what is more painful than anything. I've said it time and time again it doesn't make me feel better to know that other people have had the same or similar experiences but it makes me feel better because \I know I'm not alone.\ And it's unfortunately not uncommon. And I do not hear and it has been unfortunately my experience specifically within my family unit to push their pain mental health as holy and completely benign there is never any pitfalls or problems or concerns or challenges or harm. I think I would have approached any of this with more jaundiced eye had I had people warn me that things can go wrong and not push this always therapy is mental health is always a good thing and it always results in improving someone's life, and if it doesn't it must be the fault of the person participating. That's not necessarily so. If we ever wanted to take that step, we'd discuss it separately and you'd decide what you're comfortable with, including anonymity. For now, I'm interested in listening. If you have an experience you'd like to share, reply here or send me a private message. And if you've ever thought, "Everybody tells people to go to therapy, but nobody talks about what happens when therapy itself goes wrong," you're exactly the kind of person I'd like to hear from.