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Old Jan 02, 2016, 08:34 AM
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I don't think I could be friends with any therapist unless it was someone I had grown up with or something. I'd constantly be worried they were pathologizing me or something. The idea kind of creeps me out.

I think that I came very very close with my last unethical one. Not really friends since she's my mother's age, but some sort of codependent maternal type relationship. She invited me to move countries with her when she retired. It honestly started feeling really unhealthy, but she never stopped being somewhat "therapisty," like I was definitely "sick" and she was the one looking after me.

But I've spent too much time in the MH system to be comfortable being friends with any therapist, not just mine. I don't trust most of them either and I have a negative view of therapy in general, so that could put roadblocks in any friendship.

Although I could date a psychiatrist or maybe even be friends with one.

ETA: last time I saw my pdoc I was talking about how socially awkward and unlikeable I am. He said he likes seeing me because he thinks I'm funny and charming, and if he weren't my pdoc and we had met somewhere else, I am the kind of person he likes to be friends with, even if ir's obvious I'm a bit nervous. I actually appreciated that comment a lot.

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