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Originally Posted by divine1966
In my opinion people are most likely behaving same way in therapy as they do everywhere else. I can't imagine too many reasonably well adjusted people would all of a sudden become very difficult in sessions.
I tend to believe ( and based on my observations of people in various situations, circumstances and geographical locations) that people tend to behave very similarly regardless where they are at (some differences of course like more constrained in professional environment etc). IMHO
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This wasn't true in my case. Therapists were authority figures who tightly controlled the circumstances, rules and used a procedure they never explained. Unlike a boss who oversaw my specific job performance or a teacher who imparted knowledge, the therapists' (illusion of ) jurisdiction and judgment was over the entirety of my life, being and personality. I never felt so ineffectual, subordinate and powerless. I was far more tentative, deferential and reverential with therapists than with others. Once I realized that therapy left me far more despairing than when I came, the co-therapists petulantly needed their old worshiper back, and viewed me--difficult.
This might have been my personality, but under extreme manipulation.