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Originally Posted by wanttolivebetter
... I'll sometimes tell my therapist I'm struggling with something, and she will straight up insist that I'm not and then say to trust her "objectivity" when I try to disagree. How does one get help if no one believes they have a problem?
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Wow! Really?! How can a therapist “objectively” tell a client that the client isn’t experiencing what the client says they are experiencing?!
Personally, I would ditch that therapist!
With regard to only showing the therapist one side of yourself (the good side), I think it would be helpful to let the therapist know that is what is happening, but you find it difficult to reveal more. But, then it’s the therapist’s job to find a way to elicit your “hidden” side.
In the cases mentioned in the research, where the therapists felt like only “half the person” was with them, in therapy, surely they needed to address that with their clients directly, and try to get to the bottom of why that was? Only then would they be able to find a way to assist their clients to open up about what they were hiding, and actually get to the root of their clients’ problems.