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Originally Posted by Nightside of Eden
This is one of the (many) reasons I refuse to ever consider therapy again. If the therapist actually cared about me, they wouldn't expect to be paid to spend time with me. The whole arrangement grosses me out, honestly. I have real friends who will listen to me for free. I don't need to hire someone to do that.
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I never thought of the therapist as someone to just listen to me. I thought of them as individuals with several years of training and ideally several years of experience in working through mental illnesses and major life issues.
I could find friends to talk to about many things (and actually it's something I'm working on, working from home 60 hours a week isn't too conducive, haha) but the things I need help with, parenting a child with ODD, dealing with PTSD, trauma, my friends don't have the ability to help me heal those issues. I hosted a playgroup to have social time with other parents and for our kids to socialize for years, but that's just not what's needed to really come to grips with the ODD for example.
There is some overlap, but where friends are caring listeners, therapists are trained facilitators, consistent, objective, client-focused, as long as one chooses a great one.