Free Step Dodge

I'm not joking either. You know how they say you can't fix other people until you fix yourself? This person isn't well and as such not in a good state of mind to offer guidance or help other people catch their own distorted thoughts. Going through some stuff myself so familiar with CBT therapy and group. If you need talk let me know, I usually have shit for answers but I'm a good listener.

The place isn't run well at all. The superiors likely agree with the 'therapists' or just plain don't care. This place gets business from the local court because it's the place you're forced to go to and the court is already corrupt. He's told his probation officer about all the stuff that happens in group (they treat everyone like garbage in there) and his PO is basically like "well...y'know..uh.."

They use mandated polygraph tests as well and base the treatment off those despite them being wildly inaccurate. My bf got ONE question come up false he had no reason to lie about and they first threatened the hell out of him he'd go back to prison then started making him go to two sessions a week. More $$ in their pockets of course.

Rather than helping people in the group so they can blend back into society, they bully them. If there's a new person the leader will spend the entire 90 minute session yelling at them. If you talk back at all, you get "don't you fucking get slick with me." That's an exact quote.

Wow...and people wonder why I don't trust therapists. You did the right thing by telling those fuckheads to eat shit and die.

On a serious note do what @grap3fruitman and look into getting these people stripped of their licenses if the supervisor is a dumb ape like the rest of them.

Because getting state-appointed social workers fired is an easy thing to do and the effort won't totally backfire.
Remember that the chain of command is irrelevant since all of the individual actors in these things are complete and utter morons with double-digit IQs.

At least your idiot is funny, though.

your relationship was prostitution ? LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL no way! girl how does he/she base it on prostitution ? maybe you 2 just have an interesting sex life lol

Would need some good evidence like a tape recording but that'd be illegal with confidentiality and all that. And it'd probably just be dismissed by anyone in charge. Really there's nothing to do but grin and bear it.

You do not deserve to be abused and neglected, especially not by a mental health worker. You're in an abusive relationship with this therapist and you're justifying why you deserve it - this too is a distorted thought process. Furthermore, a lie detector test measures stress responses - it sounds like they're trying to give you an anxiety disorder the way they talk to you.

Every therapist is supposed to tell you things you don't like, their job is to help you challenge your own distortions so you can start changing behaviors you don't like. A therapist cannot help you because the therapist is not well himself. Would you let a doctor with a broken hand perform delicate surgery on you? It's the same sort of thing.

@grap3fruitman stop exaggerating lol and @Chapstick just go to a other therapist lol

@grap3fruitman He's not justifying being abused, and it's not about what he deserves. I'm not sure if you're trolling or just exceptionally dense, but your rant reads like a cursory comedy routine, not like advice from a grown man.

@Dark-truth He doesn't get to pick.

I'm not the one going btw, my bf is. If I was in that group I probably would have been kicked out for talking back.

There was a 70+ y/o man in the group with a wheelchair and oxygen tank. He told them he was still having a problem with something and wanted help. They said "well if we can't help you I guess we'll say you're unable to complete your therapy and send you back to jail. Do you want that?"

It was for help with something that wasn't even illegal. I'm convince they get off on the control they have over people that have no choice.

That's all fine and dandy, except this isn't about mental health. It's about state-sanctioned institutions. Your "experience" with mental health is irrelevant, though I find your claim to be hilariously presumptuous given what you know about me.

Damn..... we can't just do nothing..... but theres nothing we can do.

Perhaps you can Blog it. If you're not the only one then hopefully someone will read it and it can get some traction.

@Brute ohh I didn't knew, I'm sorry

He has this on mondays. Today they spent the entire 90 minute session in a group of eight people on my bf and threatened to say he isn't "completing his treatment" if I don't get a job soon. Interesting

Sooooo..... what happens if he doesn't complete his "treatment" ?

I mean yall can just wait them out then move on and forget their asses right ?