12/31/2025
I walked into therapy because I missed my mom.
I walked out in the back of a police car.
That’s not a metaphor. Two officers escorted me out of my therapist’s office after I admitted something millions of grieving people feel but are terrified to say out loud:
I’m not suicidal. I’m just exhausted from the pain.
In Part 1, I shared how my therapist of several weeks turned cold the moment I said I sometimes wished I wouldn’t wake up — not because I wanted to die, but because grief was swallowing me whole. She left the room, came back with police, and told them I was a danger to myself.
Six hours in a hospital room.
My shoelaces and phone taken.
Doctors asking the same questions over and over while I tried to explain that missing your mother isn’t a crime.
And then the bill.
What I didn’t share yet is what happened after I got home.
How I emailed her, shaking, trying to explain how humiliating and traumatic it had been… and how she replied with one sentence that felt colder than the hospital bed.
How two days later her office informed me she would no longer be my therapist.
Just like that.
Four weeks of trust erased because I was honest.
But here’s the part I couldn’t fit into Part 1 — the part that made me realize this wasn’t just a misunderstanding.
When I tried to file a complaint, I discovered something about her history that no patient had ever told me about. Something that explained why she escalated so fast… and why I wasn’t the first client this had happened to.
I almost didn’t write Part 2.
Because once you know what I found, you can’t unknow it.
If you’ve ever held back the truth in therapy because you were afraid of being reported, this story is for you.
Part 2 is live now.
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