You can't solve everything in your head, by thinking about things. You solve problems in the workshop of life, by living day to day, seeing what behavior on your part gets a good outcome and what doesn't. There's probably some aspect of life in which you lack adequate experience. About the only thing you'll get experienced in by sitting in a therapist's office is you'll get experienced at talking to therapists. That's an artificial relationship where someone gives you their undivided attention.
If you talk to any human being long enough, you'll eventually here them say something that they're just wrong about. Maybe you've come to that point with this therapist you've been seeing. Don't be over-awed by your therapist's pretensions to having you all figured out. That same therapist is struggling with personal problems - sometimes unsuccessfully - just like everyone else in the world.
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