You gain strength, courage and confidence from every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You can say to yourself “I have lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along”. You must do the thing you think you can not do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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ETA: Here is an essay by Michelle Mallon, who wrote this letter. I’m not entirely sure, but I think the psychopathic therapist she writes about here may be the person she wrote this letter to.
http://www.naswoh.org/?page=mallon
It’s prudent to be careful who we choose as a therapist. So many of them are narcissistic or even psychopathic. They’re drawn to the field of psychotherapy because it allows them plenty of narcissistic supply and the opportunity to hurt vulnerable people. In a professional setting, it’s hard to see the red flags, especially if the therapist seems sympathetic.
If you begin to feel used, gaslighted or abused in any way by your therapist, or just feel uncomfortable around them, LEAVE.
This really makes you think.
Profound wisdom.
Just had to reblog this. This is the narc in a nutshell.
My son tweeted this, but what’s he talking about? He lives in Florida!
LadyWithATruck wrote this in a comment under a post of mine, and I think it deserves its own thread.
“I think 2015 is going to be a year of reckoning for narcissists the world over. Their cover will be blown and they will lose their power.”
I hope she is right! 😀
Lucky Otters Haven 