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Old Feb 18, 2016, 12:07 PM
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The first one I see goes on about it not being thinking but feeling that a client need do.
The second, more skilled, doesn't put it like that but also downplays thinking. I am all for thinking, but the therapists I have known have not been or at least not openly.
I think it has, as reported here, an ability to assist some people with some things. I don't think it helps everyone with everything or even everyone with some specific thing. I also don't think the fact it is not what helps some people, to be the fault of those people or because they were not trying hard enough or doing it correctly or somehow the fault lies with those who simply didn't find it useful or were more damaged by it. There is a risk in everything. I think if it is not helping but retraumatizing, then I feel I can change how I use therapy or I can seek usefulness elsewhere (meditation, yoga, communal drumming etc - And I am not being flip - I think there are more ways to find an ability to be better inside one's self than just therapy)
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Last edited by stopdog; Feb 18, 2016 at 12:21 PM.
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