PTSD worsened/caused by therapists and how to get past/help for it?

I'm really sorry about what you've been through.

I have a lot of negative experiences with therapists and they directly led into the PTSD by breaking me down psychologically.

That aside, though... an experience I had recently was that I got wrongly hospitalized by a parent because I wasn't speaking to her while living with her. No violence, no suicidality, nothing. When they were taking me to the hospital, I took a small videocamera I had (because of my former field of work). At the hospital they found it and took it away from me. At the hospital, a lot of other things happened, including that the psychiatrist forced me to let him talk to my parents, even though I was in my late 20's. He said if I didn't allow him to meet with them, he would commit me which could lead to me being hospitalized for up to six months and forcibly drugged. Please realize I wasn't violent or suicidal in the first place, it was a bunk hospitalization in the first place, and it was apparent I was one of the most healthy people there, even though I have PTSD symptoms. After his threat to commit me, I agreed to let him talk to my parents.

Anyway because of my initial resistance to letting him talk to my parents, and because of the videocamera, he put that I'm "paranoid" in my file.

Now I get super, ha, paranoid that if another therapist finds out I was labeled paranoid, that the new therapist will then think I'm paranoid and then discount everything I say.

Like, I'm worried that after leaving my parents without giving them an explanation, they might try to find me. I think the parent who hospitalized me for not talking to her could go to certain lengths to find me. Am I paranoid?

Ok my point is I think I'm not paranoid but it's like if they label you with whatever it discounts whatever you think that could get twisted to be interpreted as being part of your "illness" or whatever.

It's terrible! And it makes me paranoid about future experiences with therapists! Or what if another bunk hospitalization could happen again! Maybe NOW I am paranoid but just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't watching you.

I'm sorry if this is getting hoaky. I hope my point is getting across that I commiserate with you.

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