I now have a very GOOD singing teacher who is gradually helping me to undo all that damage, together with vocal unloading practitioners. It's a long road!!

Here in Australia there is absolutely NO REQUIREMENT WHATSOEVER for any qualifications for teaching singing, let alone any type of quality system for ensuring that singing teachers are actually ABLE to teach, or accountability for the damage they cause. There should be!! These people can damage a parts of our body, not to mention cause mental issues, when inevitable failure ensues. There should be rigorous training and checking procedures for singing teachers to ensure that those people responsible for the vocal and aural health of their students are actually CAPABLE OF TEACHING!!!

A VERY ANGRY ex-student of two utterly incapable Australian singing teachers!! (not the teacher of this blog, of course)