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Old Jan 23, 2010, 06:18 PM
wonderingmary wonderingmary is offline
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Originally Posted by pachyderm View Post
Precision in words makes a difference -- certainly to me.
In some sense it does to me, too. But in another sense, I don't think we can (or at least, often I can't) really be precise (in the sense of exact or perfect). But what I often consider "good enough" others (especially therapists) sometimes consider "perfectionist" or "overly detailed" or "obsessive" or something else that to me seems dismissive and unaccepting, or even uncaring. What they consider "good enough" I may consider missing a distinction that is important to me. This conflict really surfaced with my last therapist. It was there with others as well, but perhaps not as overtly expressed. It seems to be in part a conflict in values.