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Old Sep 20, 2017, 04:36 PM
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Originally Posted by RubyRae View Post
...what I don't understand,why some choose not to and would rather spend the rest of their life blaming their problems on their childhood and making excuses rather than taking responsibility for themselves and seeking help.
My experience has been that help is not so simply available, or affordable for everyone. Lots promise help; fewer provide genuine help -- that is my feeling. You are always told to get a good therapist -- that implies that not all therapy is "good". I find that the quality of therapy cannot be guaranteed just by it being "therapy". Seems to me we are not in the era where we can rely on even trained therapists just by the fact that they have been "trained". And telling people who have little self-confidence to themselves be the arbiter of what is good is problematic.

It is not simple.
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