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noname223

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I elaborated quite often in this forum what my former therapist did to me. And how the organization behind her backed her despite the fact it was very obvious she is lying about it.
If you want the full story here is a thread about it. I still cannot let go of it.

Recently, there was a scandal where I live. Medical students address major sexual harrassment in the health sector. Sexual harrassment by patients but also by higher ups (head physicians). And it sounds like the organization that represents doctors in my country also back abusive doctors. Now they act morally outraged but actually when you read the story of individuals they kept silent when it came to abuse.

I am very sensitive to injustice. And I find it horrible how women in this sector have to deal with sexual harrassment. Always when I am interactig with a woman with such a job I try to very respectful and I try to keep a professional distance.

There was a story in a news magazine that sort of reminded me of my own story. A young medical student was in an operation room. Two assistant medical directors talked with her with how many women her boyfriend might sleep with. Two other doctors said things like I hope you don't listen to it the other one said he just started with this talk this will go on for a while. And joked about the remarks of the assistant medical director. The young medical student responded that such a talk was sexual harrassment. She was aware this statement could end her career. Later she reported the incident to female higher up. She explained her that she misunderstood the remarks. These remarks would have been jokes. The director explained to her his staff has to protected from such allegations. She was sort of bullied afterwards at the clinic. She had real life consequences for her bravery she quit working in that sector. And there was no punishment for the perpetrators.

Similar as in my case there was no justice. The perpetrator got away scott free. And personally in my situation my psychiatrist even sympathized with my therapist after my former therapist called her to persuade her.

The whole industry is despicable to me. I am glad that there are such brave women who speak out and share their story. Even if abusers don't receive a punishment. Maybe the system will change in the longrun. And at least I can share my story on here. All organizations that back abusers are despicable to me. They should be deeply ashamed their family members should be ashamed of them and I think corrrupt institutions will be reformed eventually. And hopefully brave people will shine a light into morally corrupt behavior like this.
I am disgusted by this human scum. And everyone who is responsible for such abuse. Backing the abusers even though they are aware they are guilty. But such a behavior isn't that rare in the history of my country...And then these people pretend to care about suicidal people. Hilarious.
 
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Forever Sleep

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It would depend on how strongly I felt about the issue and what repurcussions there could be for fighting that cause. I'm ashamed to say I probably would be cowardly and let certain things go- if I feared who I would be up against to fight them.

Sometimes though- I've stepped in and then, regretted it. As a young child, I told an older boy off for (what looked like) bullying my friend. He grabbed me by the collar, pushed me against a wall and threatened me instead. Then, my friend was also annoyed I'd interfered! So- from then on, I thought it best to let people fight their own battles.

It does really come down to how serious the matter is. I hope I would report abuse or a crime say. But then- if it's a very strongly opinionated person who comes out with something I find morally dubious say, I may just try to ignore it. If questioning them previously has lead to unpleasantness. Some people won't change so- does challenging them do all that much?

When it comes to legal battles, I've been caught up in problems with flat maintenance companies who were trying to backdate payments. I fought it for a while- trying to get advice from the Citizen's Advice Bureau but, the best they could come up with was- it was a legal grey area and I could well end up paying more money trying to fight them. That did feel like letting injustice win but then, sadly- you need time, money, patience and guts to fight these sorts of things.
 
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