Posted by dancinbillie on December 11, 2009, at 19:33:31
In reply to Re: Mentally disordered therapist » dancinbillie, posted by sassyfrancesca on December 11, 2009, at 14:09:24
> Hey, sweetie: That is okay! The no-no part(I think) is (as she told you), she would be unemployable if they knew of her problem. She shouldn't have been sharing this stuff....but for the right answers, you can contact the licensing board,etc.
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> PS. Oh, I just re-read your post and see she wasn't sharing that info. with a client....
> Hugs, SassyHi Sassy, thanks for your reply. She shared the info with me, a former patient of hers, after our therapy had terminated, and she didn't know it was me, a former client, that she was talking to . . .
I learned this information about a year ago. She also believes she is telepathic; that she can astrally project; that she's a reincarnation of Venus, the Goddess of Love; that she has a "phenomenal" sexuality that she projects even when she doesn't want to or even know she's doing it (which, along with a hideously negative countertranference toward me, became hazardous to me and is why our therapy terminated); that nearly all other women have hated her all her life because they're afraid she's going to "steal" their man; that she has attempted suicide many times since she was 12 years old (now in 50s) and is frequently suicidal now; that she always fears an alter may get up in the middle of the night and take a bottle of pills or throw her off the roof; that she was programmed and still operates sometimes under "mind control" and is still vulnerable to "thought insertion" and could come over to my house any night and kill me, and never get caught; that she is actually not of the human species but comes from another planet; that she was for many years as a child Satanically ritually abused by her parents and other members of her family; that she was intended from birth to be a "breeder" for that cult . . . Sorry, just had to get that all out to someone! I'm extremely open-minded and I can't solidly dispute any of it, but to me it seems pretty far out.
During our therapy, she did share things with me like telling me that she loved me, that it would be extremely difficult for her when I left therapy and that she would simply "be mean" to me and "not talk to" me so that it would be easier for her, that she didn't want the other staff members to know how "deeply attached" she had become to me, and that our therapy was meeting some of her needs as well as mine. Perhaps you can imagine some of the negative effects such disclosures had on me later, though I was thrilled at first to be so "important," so "special" to her. So I do know first-hand that she's damaged at least one patient and has poor boundaries. Even if she had such feelings, I know she shouldn't have shared them with me, a current patient at that time (somewhat more than two years ago).
I don't want to wreck her life - but I don't want to see her wreck anyone else's life as a result of her undisclosed disorder. It also makes me feel uneasy that I personally know that there is a mental health practitioner lying about her own psychosis. She says she does "pretty well" when she's at work, so it's no problem . . . Seems to be another instance of poor judgment. As her basically anonymous email and phone buddy for several months in 2009, I tried to help her and encouraged her to seek treatment, but she said no treatment had ever worked except with one doctor many years ago who was able for about a year to speak with her alters, but then some of her alters shut it down, which she says happens with other health treatment a lot of the time, as well.
Really very sad, yet scary, I think, for those who come in contact with her as her patient. I've been torn by this knowledge on and off since I learned about it.
Thanks again,
db
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