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Dec 16, 2012, 02:52 PM
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Member Since: Dec 2012
Location: California
Posts: 2,248
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Originally Posted by farmergirl
We'll just have to disagree. I cannot fathom how reading random posts on an internet forum for an entire hour of therapy would help me work on MY issues and MY life. Seems avoidant and voyeuristic. I can't imagine a therapist finding this kind of activity specifically relevant to a clients' well-being. If a client finds A thread or A post relevant to themselves, I would assume they could print it off and take that one thread in and use it as a jumping off point for their own therapy, but to simply spend an entire hour of therapy analyzing OTHER people's lives seems entirely irrelevant to a clients' OWN therapy. I suppose people can feel free to waste their therapy time that way, but it does seem like a waste.
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I see lots of things that seem unhelpful. Some of it that people describe here. some of them responses. And I have to remind myself: everyone has their own path, and the straightest path from here-to-alot-more-healthy is rarely a straight line.
If that is what someone thinks is the best way for them to spend their time, I figure it's their time and their money, and they probably know better than I do what is best for them. Perhaps what they will learn is that this isn't a profitable use of time, but it will then be their learning and their inclination to do that will be gone, rather than forbidden, or judged. Maybe they will learn something transferable. I'm always surprised what does and doesn't help others - and myself!
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