This is not an exclusive list; these are just some 'warning signs';

1) Your therapist warns you NOT to attempt to verify the 'facts' revealed
during therapy.

You might be told this is 'your truth' or that 'others will deny' or anything to
suggest that your 'reality' is different from objective reality and should be
kept separate.

If you live alone in a cave and never interact with others, then believing any manner of incredible things is of little problem. If you live in society, and interact with other people, your 'personal' reality may conflict with object reality.

If you suddenly remember childhood abuse, for example, and are told not to try to 'prove' it...be very very wary.

Even if it is just to view a room, or check a date, doing some act to confirm or deny this 'memory' do it, even if you are advised not to. In this way you prevent
possible false memories from ruining your real life.

2) Needing hypnotism/psychotropic drugs

The majority of people go to a therapist because they are confused. If they could sort out their feelings they wouldn't need a therapist. Hypnotism/drugs is not going to remove the confusion, in fact, in many cases, it enhances the confusion.

In all our lives we have little day dreams, fantasies, etc. WE may imagine our boss
with duct tape over his mouth, we may imagine pushing someone down a flight of steps, and actually see it in our minds. WE may have vivid dreams of some incident
which is so 'real'.

As children our games take on a substance; we may actually 'remember' some amazing feat, because we really believed that we leapt over the chasm; (not from the arm of the sofa to the chair) or were pursued by dragons, (not the puppy) so that such drug use or hypnotism might have us recall something that never really happened.

Be very chary of hypnotism/psychotropic drugs especially when you are functioning in real life.

3) Not getting better

If you find yourself attending a therapist on a regular basis and are just as miserable or confused, (if not moreso) than when you entered, stop.

Events do not impact upon people in set ways.

What might be devastating for one person might be survivable for another. People
who have to attend therapy for years are not getting better, they have given themselves another problem, dependency on their therapist. They now look for approval from their therapist, try to 'please' him or her. Need 'verification' for actions.

If you are attending therapy and any of these three warning signs pop up, stop. Get another therapist. You may be stunned to learn that one may tell you ABC another
will tell you DEF and a third XYZ...which are mutually exclusive.