I am in treatment for schizophrenia. I am a female in her 20s. That is some background info. I am coming here because people besides professionals believe me about this one experience. I am a pretty logical person besides when I get delusional and now that is very rarely. One big thing that happened last winter is I was talking in therapy for a 45min session with a private MSW. (A social worker with their masters). She was talking then I don’t remember anything but not being able to move, and being afraid. She calmed me down with a soothing voice and acted as if nothing was wrong and didn’t tell my mom this. I was still going to therapy with my mom attending half of a session. This was my type of treatment at the time. I didn’t think much of this experience until months later, when I switched treatment teams, and talked to a new friend about it. He is in treatment as well and said there are therapists that can hypnotize for beneficial reasons and this one was practicing with out a license. This women went against ethics, and I want to get her out of business because some other young adult can be used as an experiment like I was. Where can I go about doing this? It’s as if my treatment team treats this type of thinking as delusional, and if I mention it in a support group they brush it off as nonsense. This women also did other things out of line too. She will deny it, but I know the truth and so does her secretary. If I can get the secretary on my side, I may have a case.
Hmmm, I’m kind of in the same boat. I have someone who is bugging me but no one believes me. She pretends she’s not thinking of me but outsmarts me in devious ways at inopportune times every chance she gets. People swear it’s not happening so she does it more. Sorry I shouldn’t hijack your thread. Your case sounds like you had an episode in that therapists office and she did her best to walk you through it until you felt better.I don’t think any therapist would be sadistic enough to deviously and deliberately hypnotize someone without telling them. I think therapists find, and I found this out through experience, that if someone is panicking or freaking out in some way that the therapist finds it helps to stay calm for that person.Thus, the soothing tone of voice.
I’m pretty sure she kept saying who she was, and saying I was “so smart” and talking to me like I was a child, and perceiving my life as something she couldn’t understand. She played dumb. That’s he only way I can describe it. She always told me college was too hard for me and lied to my mother about some of the stuff I said. She shouldn’t even be saying anything to her because at the time I was 21 and it was strictly confidential. She called me bipolar for throwing money at her for talking on the phone to another patient for 5 mins and she said if I walked out I couldn’t see her again. I sat down, and talked, weeks later she told my mom she thought it was a sign of bipolar. Isn’t that unprofessional?
I can see your point of view but she did numerous other unprofessional things, and some ruined my outlook. Right now I’m happy she’s not seeing me and I will let go and move on. I haven’t seen her since April. I just bring this up because last night I had a dream about confronting her, and made me think of it.
Well sometimes you have to trust your gut feeling and your own intuition. You may have valid reasons to switch therapists. Trust is invaluable in a patient-therapist relationship. If you don’t trust her and If you have bad feelings about this therapist then, yes, maybe it’s wise to see a different one. I’ve personally never “fired” a therapist or stopped seeing one midstream. None of mine have been offensive.
Not saying this is a delusion, but at one point I had a psychotic break after a year of talk therapy and had the delusion that the whole time I had been seeing my therapist she had been hypnotizing me and re-programming me and replacing my memory with bogus sessions.
I’ve since been hypnotized twice and it’s not what most people think. From my experience I don’t think it can be done without your knowledge or consent.