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Originally Posted by PaulaS
I think a T could understand most of my feelings around this but the difference between our lives is still there. We can talk about my (in my eyes at least) inferiour situation and a good T, which I hope to find, wont judge or think my situation is pathetic or something.
But IŽll still be bothered about my incompetence and spending several years on "nothing" knowing my T was employed when around my age, started a family when around my age and so on. I donŽt see a way to think past such things.
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I wouldn't count on it that your life is "inferior" to every therapist there is. When I was in college I took a psych course and the instructor was covered in scars she had inflicted on herself, like I have never seen anyone with more cuts all over her arms, neck, face, all from self injury. She was older and had gone back to school, I don't think she had kids or a husband, and I don't know what happened to her, but obviously something very bad. That's when it really hit me that a lot of people who go into therapy have had some rather rotten stuff happen to them which got them interested in the first place. But... you would never know talking to the therapist (unless they have scars all over I guess) because they shouldn't make the therapy about themselves, so it might be easy to assume they are "superior" in every way without really knowing that.