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Originally Posted by Myrto
I also don’t understand why there is always this assumption that transference stems from trauma.
I was incredibly attached and obsessed with my therapist and I have no trauma, didn’t suffer any abuse, had a very happy childhood, have a good relationship with my parents. I was simply depressed and lonely (depression is pretty isolating).
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Agree. Therapists as a group seemed insanely fixated on connecting everything that happens in therapy with a handful of patterns or problems from early childhood, as if present circumstances cant be just as significant. It's brain dead one-cause/one-cure thinking.
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Originally Posted by Myrto
People talk about working through it but it always means spending months/years in therapy discussing problems that were induced by therapy itself instead of addressing the reasons you went to therapy in the first place. And then what? Would you feel better? Happier? More fulfilled? From what I have read it doesn’t seem to be the case for a lot of people who decided to stick with their therapist in order to «*work through it*».
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Yea, the elephant in the room is the possibility that therapy itself is directly causing misery, and for no godd*m good reason. Seems in many cases it totally submerges the client's other problems and creates a brand new hell from which the client has to escape, while the therapist insists healing is taking place.