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Originally Posted by Argonautomobile
Yeah, that sounds like therapy--having things reflected back at you. Though I've never really seen those two things (suffering due to distorted vision and suffering due to life situation) as being mutually exclusive. That is, I've always sort of been under the impression that most (if not all) distorted vision was directly due to a difficult life situation. That difficult life situations have this tendency to distort vision. And since life situations can not always be changed--and even when they can therapists aren't in the business of directly making that change--then the best anyone can do is try to change the way they think about the life situation.
But I'd probably feel differently about the matter if I felt that all my problems were external--caused by things outside my control--and that my vision was clear.
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I'm with you. But maybe what therapists or others in helping professions fail to consider is that a person can have distorted vision and various neuroses and also be aware of it. What drives me nuts is the presumption that a suffering person is a blind person, and also the presumption that a layperson is somehow less capable of insight than a therapist.
I went to see an MD last week who I saw a few years ago. She is unusual, works with trauma, is very spiritually based, focuses on emotional stuff primarily. She operates like a therapist at times. Already after one visit she is giving overbearing interpretations of my internal conflicts. And I can see that it is partly about her. She
needs to be in the role of guru and adviser, whether I need it or not.