Countrygirl
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I have withheld the patient's name which was given.
I had the misfortune of being treated by Michael Sharpe with CBT and GET for nearly a year in 1990/1991. He started off by telling me I was a model patient and would be well in 3 months. During treatment he did various questionnaires with me to 'prove' his theories, and when the results didn't fit his ideas he dismissed the results and said they weren't very reliable questionnaires anyway.
After 9 months I was so much worse that my horrified GP demanded that he admit me to hospital. I was an in patient for a week. He and his colleagues visited occasionally to tell me off for not getting better. They accused me of subconsciously wanting to stay ill because they said I was afraid of having to return to university if I got well and then not getting a First (a First I had never been aiming or hoping for but they refused to believe that).
They said I obviously wasn't trying hard enough and owed it to them to do better and get well as they had invested a lot of time in me. His final comment to me as he left before I was discharged (by then suicidal, for the first time in my life, as well as physically iller than I had ever been, after all they had done and said to me) was 'We will be proved right, our careers depend on it'. The signs were all there in 1991 but there was no way of stopping him.