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FayeRayRay

Is my therapist bad?

Question

Before I get into my concerns, id just like to mention that I've had two therapists in my life. my current one, and another one from when i was younger.

i like my current one because she's really smart. she knows exactly what im talking about usually and she can give me reasons and advice accordingly.

but in our last session I mentioned that I enjoy the idea of harming people, and that ive done it before (emotionally). i didnt tell her that it causes sexual arousal for me because that was just a step too much for me to say all at once. but then, I admitted to watching a specific type of media (not porn or related to porn, but something id argue is much more graphic and worse), and she was kind of justifying it. she was saying that humans gravitate towards violence and that it was normal. normal to watch the kind of stuff I watch? no fucking way. there's just no way any normal person would watch this. especially not to the extent I do.

now, thanks to cptsd, I'm always wary of people, especially my therapist. so is this a weird thing for a therapist to say?

Posted Mar 27, 2026, 8:01 PM UTC

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