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Old Jul 04, 2019, 07:19 PM
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No. I don’t attach to therapists. I don’t need to attach to therapists in order to accomplish something I wanted to accomplish in therapy at a particular time in my life. I don’t get attached to professionals who provide service, they aren’t romantic partners or family or best friends, I don’t consider therapists any of those categories. Others of course might find attachment useful

From what I see on this subforum, attachment to therapists sometimes causes more harm than good. Therapy becomes all about therapy and working on relationship with therapists all while life outside of therapy is a mess or getting worse. I see how many people suffer because they want therapists to be their lovers or friends and that just ain’t happening.

But of course for some people attachment is good and needed.
Thanks for this!
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