I have learned a lot about tolerance from this board! I work in psychology and have been trained very behaviorally. The people I work with are purely CBT and BT and scoff at psychodynamic and other long-term therapy approaches, and I had adopted what I'd learned.

Since coming here, I really see the value in opening up and exploring the self in a more flexible way, using approaches as they are relevant to the individual. I am so glad for this board because one day (when I am more sane!) I hope to become a therapist, and I think learning this flexibility is really important and will help me help people. I don't want to be a desk-T one day, I don't, I don't!! But the place I work is full of "colder" therapists. I want to give people what they need from therapy. Sometimes that is not immediate behavior change. I think I'm starting to see that. But I could never say this where I work -- they would scoff at me!

But what do they know? Therapists are supposed to teach people to be more flexible in their thinking. This rigidity may be comforting, but isn't it the opposite of what we try to teach in the field of psychology?

This board has given me so much to think about and has really opened my eyes.