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Originally Posted by ListenMoreTalkLess
I just don't agree that T's "shouldn't" do many things that people on this board sometimes decry as bad. I object to the absoluteness of these statements and I don't think that anyone can legitimately say, with those obvious exceptions of taking advantage of people sexually or emotionally, that T's "shouldn't" do x,y, z.
But if you don't want your T to do whatever you don't want them to do, that's everyone's right. But I don't think much good comes from telling people that their T's are being "bad."
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I agree with you. All of our therapists are different and we all respond to different things. (I also think it's good for people to acknowledge their therapists may do less-than-ideal things, but that doesn't make them bad therapists who need to be ditched ASAP.)
I don't want to use my therapy to escape from the rules of the "real world". In the real world, there are valid concerns and whiny-crybaby "get a life" ones. I would get exasperated if someone were to weep and wail over a paper cut, and I think most people would too. If my paper cuts were given the same gravitas as my gunshot wounds, I wouldn't feel like my therapist was a real person with real emotions.