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Old Jan 27, 2018, 12:32 AM
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Originally Posted by BudFox View Post
This is my experience... therapists have no better idea what is going on than the client or anyone else. It's a smoke and mirrors thing. There is no treatment, no special powers, no magical words that will make all the hurt go away. .
My T is the first one to tell me these things. In fact, she has...multiple times. She knows that she can only help me as much as I want to help myself (admittely, very little), but that she is willing to hang in there with me as long as I am willing.

This is not to say she doesn't try. She throws out all sorts of different things I could attempt in order to make myself feel better, but I reject them all. I gather I probably am highly frustrating, but she never shows it.

Not ALL T's are cackling to themselves how they are hoodwinking their clients. My T has been up front with me since day 1, and I find it refreshing.