My friend at school got hit over the head with a chair and nothing was done, so we complained and they decided to send us to the councellor to 'make sure we felt safe' and this councellor spent three sessions trying to undermine me and make me out to be a bad person basically. I know this probably sounds a bit paranoid, but one session devoted to:
did you make it up?
No
Did you not even exaggerate a little bit?
No
Are you sure you didnt say something you didnt mean to in the heat of the moment?
I didnt
It wasnt reall that bad was it?
He hit her with a chair
Did you make it up?
We then moved on to school generally, where i got told off every time i said anything negative, and cried every time. After three sessions i just stopped turning up.
She was a really unscrupulous person, she put the schools aims and wants above those of the kids she was dealing with, whenever someone complained about bullying, and there was quite a lot of it, they got sent for a course on making friends with her instead of the people doing this being punished. Thats my only experience of any kind of therapy or counselling or whatever, but it asnt put me of completely, id still try again. Id just take a healthy does of skepticism with me. And im pretty sure they'd have kept me there as long as it was in their best interests to make out that i had a problem, i saw them so it to lots of people. Sometimes counselling, in schools anyway, can just be the easy option
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