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Originally Posted by roseleigh7
It's a little disconcerting to think that one's therapist might be as unwell as oneself. I think it's fine for you to be here though. I wish you the best. 
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Yep. I totally get this. As a client, I need to feel my therapist knows what the heck she's doing. As a therapist I know I do, in my therapist role.
We want our t's to be stronger than us, more knowledgeable. I am so much stronger in my role as a therapist than in my life outside. I get panicky when I encounter my t outside her office. Yet when I encounter a client at the mall, I am concerned about them, and wonder how their experience of it is.
As a t, I have no place to talk about being a client. As a client I feel weird talking when I'm a t. Sucks.
In my office I know what to say, how to help, how to listen and be. As a client I know my role. But no where can I be who I am, which is both.
I don't even know if I can do this, be me in both roles.
A few friends in real life know, but none of them is in therapy.
So, yeah, I understand. And I agree. At one point in my life I was very, very sick. But that allows me to understand things in a different way than someone who hasn't been there.
And although my clients may never know my history, if I can make it out, survive, and live, I hold the deepest hope that they will, too. That hope, that belief in one's strength, cannot be faked. I
Thanks for your honesty, and your welcome b