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Originally Posted by Bill3
So then a central thing perhaps is not the depression itself, but rather that you as a T "should not" be depressed. You feel shame for that, because you "should have" fixed any depression on your own. You see yourself as lacking competence. How important has competence always been to you?
Therefore, what you would like to hide from your T, if you could, is not that you are depressed, but that you are a T.
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Exactly. I think I've always regretted being honest about my work when I started seeing T.
I've always been a perfectionist, so competence has been very important to me throughout my life. It's an even bigger issue now than it has been in the past, because I have struggled with feeling like I'm "good enough" at my job. I don't like to fail at anything, but I feel like I have failed myself in this.