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Originally Posted by CantExplain
I think therapists have to be optimists.
They have to believe that we will survive, that we will grow and one day we will be happy.
It is part of their objectivity, of their boundaries that they don't get as upset as we do. They are trying to be a sane, reliable, predictable person in our life.
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My T said once that the only way he can stand to see certain clients leave the room is if he reminds himself that they lived their lives for years without him and they need him to be the calm in the storm. He has to have faith in their ability to survive until the next week, but reassures them that if they don't have faith in that fact, they can call him anytime.