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Originally Posted by stopdog
I have not given my power over to the therapist. I don't consider telling them things about my past to be giving them power. If I thought one of them was trying to dominate me - I would leave. I have boundaries and I don't let the therapist cross them. I am less than a therapist. I have not found one I thought was smarter than I am. They are not better at life than I am. I pay them - they sit there. I can leave at any time.
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This is the smart way to deal with them. This is how I view things now. I love this advice. I think we would all do well to take it. I wish everyone could be like you. Therapists would lose that god complex they seem to develop and people wouldn't end screwed over by them.