But we're not all the same and would not all have the same response. I certainly would not judge a therapist harshly who said such a thing - in fact I would find it one of the few sensible and useful things I have ever heard of a therapist saying. I would find that sentence without any context at all as being comforting, a good position to take, the truth because a therapist has no business telling me to do or not to anything -ever.