You weren't specific enough. What exactly did they do to you to invoke such hatred?

Bad doctors, bad hospitals

You weren't specific enough. What exactly did they do to you to invoke such hatred?

Well, other than giving me severe bitterness and a sadness that is practically depression that only recently started to recover, nothing I suppose.

Yes, but what did they do to make you sad? Certainly regular therapy couldn't result in that. What was it that made you so depressed?

While trying to delve into my mind (which they never did. Hah!), I started thinking about things I dislike in my life. And that ain't healthy.

Of course, by then I'm almost constantly thinking about not only what I hate in my life, but what I hate in the world.

When you think about what you hate, you tend to be sad.

Yeah I think *they've found that all this "tell me about your childhood" crap basically results in you digging up memories that your mind has kindly repressed to keep you sane. It can help understand why you are the way you are but it doesn't actually help you recover. *They have also found that keeping a diary can be bad in a similar way. Basically your mnd repress stuff for a reason, so you get on with your life.

*By "they" I mean researchers whose names I cannot recall.

I agree, repression of memories is really healthy. My mind has somehow managed to semi-repress the memories, but every once in a while (by which I mean all the time) they come back and I start into violent, involuntary twitching. I've been working on it though; sometimes I can restrict it to eye tics.

ok

I feel that any friend who reports you to the sinister "counsellors" is no friend at all. It is only a small step from what you have described to someone saying something like "the election of bush makes me want to commit suicide" and then being sent to a political and emotional therapy session to "resolve" your unfelt feelings about society. You are emotionally threatened into spilling your guts out (gestapo anyone?) while the content of your answers and how well you perform in front of them determines your fate; if you displease them, even more therapy. But if you put on a convincing lie of going through an emotional transformation and humiliate yourself enough with revealing private information then you may be relased from their grip. But even after it ends you are forever scarred with the memory of it and the fear that if you ever display, say or do anything like that again you will be re-sent to the therapy session - only this time with the added stigma that your last session has failed to alter your behaviour and even longer more in-depth therapy or even drugs are now needed to help you. therapists are emotional rapists personisified. Only a true authoritarian aspires to become a therapist.