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Originally Posted by lolagrace
I can see how your two different beliefs about therapy could be a crossed purposes.
For me, I was in therapy to understand myself, to understand where I had been and where that left me now, to understand how to move forward from this point. Yes, being understood was part of that process, but being understood was only one part of the whole process. For me, if I had stopped at being understood, I'd still be stuck right where I went in. I needed to understand where to go from where I was.
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I think I hope that in being understood by someone else, and in talking to someone else about things that I have never talked about before, and in being accepted and close to someone I will feel better. If it was just a question of understanding ourselves perhaps we could do online counselling? I do also feel that understanding helps, but for me I think the being understood seems to need to come first.