/r/therapyabuse/

r/therapyabuse

24k members
r/therapyabuse is a subreddit with 24k members. The community frequently discusses therapy, therapist, abuse, therapists, and mental health, and the most common flair used is therapy abuse , therapy-critical, anti-therapy , respectful advice/suggestions ok, and ‼️ triggering content.
Please read our rules before participating at r/therapyabuse. Please report content as needed, or modmail to reach our mods. We are run by volunteers. This is a trauma support space, not a “debate space.”

Popular Topics in r/therapyabuse

#1

Therapy

255 posts
#2

Therapist

128 posts
#3

Abuse

62 posts
#4

Therapists

30 posts
#5

Mental Health

29 posts
#6

Struggling

26 posts
#7

Help

21 posts
#8

Hate

19 posts
#9

Trauma

18 posts
#10

Struggle

16 posts

Flair Used in r/therapyabuse

#1
Therapy Abuse
: "Therapists don't deserve access to your depth"
23 posts
#2
Therapy-Critical
: "Mental health workers entire goal is to handle you not help you. Their main objective is to stay afloat, cover their own ass, prove themselves useful/not get found out, save face. The Kafkaesque logic of institutional "care"."
13 posts
#3
Anti-Therapy
: "No type of therapy works for me and no one believes it?"
10 posts
#4
Respectful Advice/Suggestions OK
: "Has anyone who survived therapy abuse ever was able to make therapy more good than harmful?"
10 posts
#5
‼️ TRIGGERING CONTENT
: "therapist making suggestions for easier suicide"
8 posts
#6
Rant (see rule 9)
: "Leaving your therapist is better than rejecting them"
8 posts
#7
🌶️SPICY HOT TAKE🌶️
: "Therapists are too privileged to understand average people problem"
3 posts
#8
Therapy Culture
: "The lengths people will go to excuse any and all behavior from a therapist is absolutely absurd"
3 posts
#9
Life After Therapy
: "I'm finally free. I quit therapy."
3 posts
#10
Therapist (posting from survivor perspective)
: "One of the Most Major Issues in Therapy (A Rant + VERY Hot Take 🌶️)"
1 post

Member Growth in r/therapyabuse

Yearly
+5k members(29.3%)

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Last updated: November 7, 2026