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Originally Posted by CantExplain
Good therapists are pretty stable, but life outside does make a difference. An especially sensitive patient is likely to pick up on that.
What then?
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What then what?
A therapist is not obligated to reveal their personal lives. All they are obligated to do is assure the patient that they are 100% with them during session.
The patient can either choose to believe them or not. It's not the therapist's fault either way unless they are doing actual behaviors that belie their words (like falling asleep in session).
I think this is where being a concrete-thinker has its advantages. If a person says everything is cool, I'm going to believe them, absent empirical evidence that says otherwise. Perhaps this is why my therapist and I have never had an issue. I trust her enough to believe the things she tells me. I don't want anyone to second-guess me, so I don't second-guess her.
Life is easier when you are a rather insensitive blockhead, I think.