Vampire Vignette

[ravan]

This blog post hit a nerve, and creeped me out a bit. People so dead inside that they would seek out other's tales of humiliation and pain for vicarious living. But I've seen it... so I write.

For your perusal, a work of fiction - of horror.

May be triggering for people who've had bad therapy experiences.

Comments

[kittenmommy]

Reading that made me feel sick. Ugh.

I'm so sorry that happened to you! I hope that woman was fired, because that's just... I can't even describe what I'm feeling right now. Ugh.

[ravan]

Oh, that wasn't a real life me, that was a composite fiction.

[kittenmommy]

Oh.

Well, I'm sure it's happened to people. And it's not just therapists who "feed" off of other peoples' pain, either. I've known people like that; they take great pleasure in the suffering and misfortune of others.

[ravan]

Yeah, one of the other recent posts I read that fed into this was about an EMT who had people calling him up for gory details about car wrecks and other accidents - while he was on the scene. As in neighbors who weren't related.

The whole pain porn, pain as entertainment thing is disturbing. It all comes from a deadness inside, a lack of meaning in ones own life.

It's often an ugly undercurrent in disaster relief, charity, anti-discrimination activism, and even other supposedly "helping" professions.

[heethen_crone]

I'd never thought of it that way but yeah, some of those "therapists" are emotional vampires. If you bleed, they're feeding.

[harvey_rrit]

This is why I refer to Doctor Phil as Doctor Empty.

[kittenmommy]

That sounds about right. Didn't he lose his license to practice in Texas? I'm pretty sure I read that he did.