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[–]Anonimouse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do you mean psychology in general, or gender therapists?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Psychologists in general - unless someone is an imminent danger to themselves or others it's a retarded thing to see one, because they have vastly too much power over the people they "treat" due to the family court systems. All of your sovereign rights and parental rights can be bypassed by them easily.

[–]Anonimouse 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm going to guess you've had a bad experience and generalising a lot from that. They also don't have that much power unless something has already happened to get in front of a court.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm going to guess you've had a bad experience and generalising a lot from that.

Personally, no - but I've seen it happen to several people on the right side of the political spectrum. Psychology has been used as a weapon against dissidents by government regimes and corporations (against whistle-blowers) across the world for the past century.

They also don't have that much power unless something has already happened to get in front of a court.

They have tons of power, from forcing someone into a mental institution to triggering "red flag" laws or CPS/custody issues by manufacturing things like child abuse. I realize not all of them are bad, I'm just saying if you encounter an evil therapist they are legally empowered in most US states to make your life a living hell just by saying the right things to the right people. If you are charged with something, they can ensure you don't get bond by saying you're a flight risk. So, they can quite easily render you unemployed, homeless, and either institutionalized or in jail facing bogus criminal charges (that will likely ultimately be dropped if it's made up hearsay, but that doesn't help you while you sit in a cell for months). The only type of person with more ability to destroy your life with baseless allegations is a District Attorney.

So, if you're gonna see one or let someone you know see one;

1) Ensure you are recording all sessions / so that if your therapist is a bad apple you have some defense against whatever lies they could tell (which is anything imaginable).

2) Make sure you have enough spare cash put away to afford a retainer on an expert witness and an attorney so that if necessary you can reclaim whatever rights they legally stripped away from you without trial.


Not because something like that will happen to you, but because it can and does happen to plenty of people. If you do win the psychopath lottery you definitely don't want to end up in a he said/she said versus a "mental health professional". You'll either spend loads of money and time attempting to undo the damage done, or you'll just be screwed.