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Originally Posted by LabRat27
For those who have told their therapists or had their therapists figure it out, how did it go? How did your therapist react? Did your therapist seem shocked or unprepared to handle it? What happened after?
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For me... train wreck. Most dysfunctional thing i have ever experienced.
I don't even know what it means for a therapist to "handle" such a thing.
I think this kind of situation is perilous. Your well-being is in the hands of a hired hand who's on a pedestal, and if they respond with rejection or shaming or misattunement, could send you into a spiral. And you have no control over the situation, because you are fully exposed and fully invested, while the therapist likely does not have a dog in the fight and could just check out on the whole thing if they choose.
Jeffrey Smith seems like a nice guy, but might have drunk the kool-aid when he says things like: "Attachment to a therapist is one of the healthiest things that can happen to a person caught in such a tangle of feelings."