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Originally Posted by FallingFreely
If I'm honest, I don't find therapists suggesting talk about underlying issues in cases like this to be terribly unusual. With the therapy that ended badly for me, my conflict and responses were definitely related to underlying issues. Otherwise therapy would have been simply chats with a pleasant stranger.My therapist was clearly a **** in response, but I played some part in my therapy crumbling. Unfortunately since there's not much a new therapist can do about the old therapist, they work with the person they have in front of them.
The shame is that the real work now taken over by a new therapist would have been best done by the old therapist  |
Certainly underlying issues are always relevant, but for me therapy itself was traumatic and devastating. And not just in a relative way, as a repetition of past injuries, but in an absolute way. This could take a very long time to process and might be the most pressing issue. If a therapist tries to move the client off of this in the first few sessions, or
anytime before the client is done talking about it, jeez that is absurd. To paraphrase Stopdog, they need to say the hell back.