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Originally Posted by pachyderm
Basically, you learn to depend on yourself. You learn to survive even if you don't have any always-wise parent figure you can depend on. You learn (or can learn) to be able to analyze what a T (or other person) may be missing, and to examine how you react to that.
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An advantage to that is that there can be some pride that you feel by doing it all on your own. A sense of competence and achievement. It might be a little similar to how I feel about having beaten depression without taking meds. It wasn't my idea--my therapist said she wouldn't work with me if I took meds and so I didn't. I might have been helped at the time by meds, but it worked out OK!