djconklin
Moderate SDA
Counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, whoever. If you haven't been a victim of sexual abuse, you don't know what you're talking about. Period.
I'm tired of people reading a book or listening to a lecture or two on sexual abuse and then thinking that they're somehow qualified to understand how victims feel or "help" us deal with it. Sexual abuse counselors are a joke and incompetent unless they've been abused in their past.
I have been with counsellors who were highly skilled and very professional and quite helpful (not all are). I would not be so caviliar in dismissing them.
Thankfully, I have never been abused or raped. But, I can listen with a caring heart and be very empathetic. But, since I'm going to be condemned at the outset as a "joke" and "incompetent" it makes me very reticent to even bother to try.
It sounds more like you are lashing out in pain because you have not found anyone who will listen to you. Unfortunately, because, at least in part, "the medium is the message" in your lashing out you are driving away the very people who could help you.
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