I don’t know.

Attachment to my prior therapist caused me more pain and heartache than the benefit I derived from it. I had trouble getting past the money, clinical aura, role-playing, and of course the idea that she intimately bonded with hundreds of others. The more I attached to her I got, the more degraded I felt. The strong feelings that I loved her vs the reality that I was her mentally ill therapy patient in treatment left me in torturous confusion.

I do think connection can be a powerful healing mechanism, but for me it’s been the everyday relationships I’ve made as an adult that have been life-changing.