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Originally Posted by BudFox
To me therapist realness/fakeness is precisely the issue. Why would I want to bring my real self to a relationship with someone who adopts a contrived persona? It's a contradiction. The therapist says: you be as authentic and vulnerable as possible, while I hide in the shadows. This is exactly what got me in trouble.
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I don't want to talk to a contrived persona either, and that is not what I meant when I described my therapist's function. I don't see things in such stark and simplistic terms as the ones you use. My experiences have been very different than the ones you describe.