This article examines the complex dynamics arising when Chinese therapy patients turn to social media platforms to express unmet emotional needs and share therapy experiences. Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, particularly concepts of containment, repetition compulsion, and transference, this study analyses how the shift from private therapeutic spaces to public social media expression often exacerbates rather than resolves psychological distress. The research explores how China's cultural context—characterised by spectator culture, collective trauma history, and limited regulatory oversight in mental health—amplifies patients’ persecution anxiety and creates hostile environments for both patients and therapists. This article demonstrates how social media's failure to provide therapeutic containment leads to diffused transference, re-traumatisation, and escalating conflicts. It argues for the need for better regulatory frameworks and contained therapeutic spaces to break the cycle of public emotional exposure and professional persecution.