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Originally Posted by Bill3
Well for one thing I think that speaking to another person can bring healing through perspective, understanding, kindness, compassion, and patience.
Many people--therapists or not--find it very hard to give these things to themselves.
In other words, a person may have tools but may find it difficult to use those tools on themselves with perspective, understanding, kindness, compassion, patience.
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That was gone over several times while I was in school, and I was all for it then. Every time the subject of therapist being clients came up in class, I was arguing in favor of it. At the time I couldn't imagine trying to help others without having someone to relieve one's own burdens onto. It made so much sense.
I'm not sure what's changed that I feel shame about being a client. Maybe it's just because I'm going for my depression, and that it's this bad, when I thought I'd beaten it. Ever since my first major depressive episode in high school, I really haven't had another until now. Maybe once towards the end of my undergrad, but I managed that through self-medicating and therapy. But since then (it's been about 5 years now) I've just had more of a dysthymic depression.