Much needed vent.

If any individual - a neighbour, for example, asked all the most personal questions a therapist of any stripe did, we would think them highly impertinent - a sticky beak. However we allow therapists to ask us anything, invade our privacy without restraint, and we comply - tell them all of our private business as a matter of course, thinking we are being helped.

It is implied to be part of our treatment and our hoped for recovery to do so - but if their treatments worked, we wouldn't be here on this forum asking each other for support and assistance - often, for years on end. Desperate for help.

In my opinion, we are exploited in a heartless even unconscionably, sadistic way. They are completely devoid of scruples and we are exploited then often, simply moved on. While our conditions worsen and our lives waste.

It seems more likely that they are invading our privacy for the purpose of satisfying their curiosity as to how the 'other half lives'.

They 'diagnose' copiously - making highly questionable - even laughable, lists of disorders to satisfy your curiosity as to what is 'wrong with you', (from me - you are severely traumatised from the conditioning and experiences you have endured which have altered your personality, your perceptions, your social standing, destroyed your family, employability, security etc.), prescribe drugs of one type or another, one dosage or another, suggest barbaric procedures which are, in my opinion, little more than needless experimentation. And we comply - or some of us do - with misplaced, naive trust. But none are cured.

I have made the following observation - that society is made up of winners and losers. In general, winners can't make a wrong move and everything goes their way. We losers can't get a break. We do everything right, do it well, yet nothing ever goes right for us. And no therapist will help us because we are the group which pays their bills. Occasionally a loser wins - and that provides the impetus for we losers to keep trying, but, for us, to no avail.

Helping us would deny them their superiority, their source of reliable income, their place in a system which works - for them. They would become one of us - and that would never do.

So how long have you been 'in treatment'? Can you look back and see what amazing progress you have made? Are you doing other that paying their bills?