Mental Health Awareness Month

I spent the past weekend re-watching one of my favorite shows "In Treatment" with my sister. It's been almost ten years since I was drawn to Gabriel Byrne's complex character and talked about the relationships on the program with my own therapist. A lot has changed since then and I'm trying to understand what led me to report that therapist to the Board of Health Professionals in 2020. Read more about my experience. 

Music is Therapy: “I’LL SHUFFLE” playlist 

Interesting reading about shame, gaslighting, and narcissism:​

•  Shame by Robert Karen.  
• Gaslighting your clients: Just stop!
• 5 Signs of Narcissistic Therapists (The Ultimate Covert Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing)*
• All The Times I Should Have Left My Terrible Therapist​

Related articles about In Treatment:

• “In Treatment”: Therapeutic Boundaries & Ethical Issues in the 2nd HBO TV Series
• In Treatment depicts a realistic end of a patient-therapist relationship
• In Treatment: Gina
• In Treatment recap: Adele proves her skill
• To Cross Or Not To Cross: Do Boundaries In Therapy Protect Or Harm?
• Is a therapist allowed to do that?
• In Treatment Is Great T.V. But Terrible Psychotherapy
  “Boundary violations” on In Treatment make it entertaining but wrong

5 Signs of Narcissistic Therapists (The Ultimate Covert Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing)
1) They violate boundaries.
2) They lack empathy for your pain and engage in victim-blaming and shaming.
3) They join forces with your abuser in gaslighting and pathologizing you.
4) They isolate you from outside support.
5) They are haughty, condescending, and contemptuous.