I feel knowing and realizing obvious differences between me and a T creates a barrier to therapy. It´s like I can never fully trust a T, whoever that person is, to understand me or understand how my life is.

I think most T:s can imagine how it´s like to be me and they can understand my problems on a more theoretical level but there will never be that kind of togetherness or recognition with a T.

To me this creates a barrier to therapy, I now speak in broad terms as I´m not currently in a therapy. I feel there will always be some kind of inevitable lack of understanding and to me that creates a barrier to therapy. I can´t be fully vulnerable in front of a T when I know she is far from in the same situation as I am.

Even if many T:s have gone through rough times in general I don´t feel fully comfortable with sharing things about loneliness when I know the T has a husband. Or sharing problems around friendships when I know the T has several friends and so on. I know I can´t be met on the same level as the T has a job, relationship, friends and so on.

I can get a basic understanding but not more, the T remains a stranger to me because of this.