Hello, GenCat!
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Originally Posted by GenCat
T thinks I choose unhappy when I always have happy to chose from.
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Some thoughts; feel free to discard if not useful: Numerous self-help books are built on the idea that anyone can choose happiness provided they 1) buy the book and 2) change their thinking. If I subscribed to that idea, why then would I resort to a therapist holding those same ideas who costs much more than the books?
If any part of depression involves an
unconscious choice, then I would expect my therapist to help me discover the mechanisms of that unconscious choice and dismantle them. If the therapist cannot help me do that or won't help me because that idea is not part of their construct of depression, then I need a different therapist.
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My dog
mastered the "fetch" command. He would communicate he wanted something, and I would fetch it.