The thing that makes me most angry about the situations that come to all of us is that the emotions behind them are the same exact pattern of emotions one goes through when being raped as a child. These professionals control us, then make us pay them so that the position of control is secure, then they verbally make us feel guilty and stupid when we talk to them for what little time they give us, playing gatekeeper roles because of religious views *I'm always willing to bet that every gatekeeper is a religious person*. It instantly creates extremely harmful emotions, and gives a literal meaning to the thought that the entire medical world is conspiring against us.
It's the same in the plastic surgery field though. I've had two botched nasal procedures myself, and I've been a part of MMH for 4+ years (and I now run my own trans-friendly plastic surgery forum), and the conspiracy in the plastic surgery field is downright horrific. It's rare that you'll see malpractice anywhere on the internet as much as you see it in the Rhinoplasty section of the MMH forum; literally two malpractice cases pop up a day, cases where famous doctors will amputate and butcher peoples' noses, and turn around and blame it on nature or "healing" or BDD. The entire medical field, from surgery to psychiatry, is one big unregulated joke - the sad thing is I still haven't found a country in the world that's not in on it.
For example, with facial plastic surgery, some of the "top name" doctors will even let nurses and trainees operate on the patients while the doctor goes out and sips coffee or even skips the surgery altogether, with the patient paying $15,000+ thinking that they will be operated on by the actual doctor himself. Other doctors will come into surgery drunk, high, or addicted to painkillers. The entire medical field is one big completely unregulated joke; just other day I reviewed a case where a doctor had molested multiple patients, and despite numerous reports filed on him and dozens of patients fighting against him, he went completely unpunished for years - when karma caught up to him, all he had to do was write an ethics care essay to his superiors and practice under another doctors eye.
He gets to make more money than most Americans for raping people! He didn't even loose his practice and the community was never alerted!
And idk, Axelle, your therapist sounds horrible! At the moment, I would rate my therapist as "frustrating" - she's "polite", but firm in her views and doesn't give you room to hold your own beliefs about the world *I have the right to have a belief, especially if all mine are backed up by facts*. However, even though I've told her I'm transsexual and how I have been honest with her, she hasn't asked everything about my personality and I'd say %50 of me still isn't covered. That's probably why, as it is, she's still in "polite" mode. However, her politeness is very fake, and if again if anyone's ever read Harry Potter and the Order Of The Pheonix (an amazing book, where Harry has to deal with the entire wizarding government conspiring against his claim that the evil Voldemort has returned, where the prime minister sends an "gatekeeper therapist"-like teacher to Harry's school to discipline him until he "confesses" that he's telling a lie), the evil-teacher character is the exact same type of gatekeeper we all experience. J.K. Rowling studied psychology at college herself (the books showcase it excellently) and Dumbledore (the headmaster of the school, one of the main heros of the story) is even gay, so her books tend to highlight everything we all go through only transferring the emotions to a different situation.
