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Originally Posted by here today
I agree with you a lot, Budfox, about therapy in general. The social realities of the set-up which I didn't see myself until you and some others pointed out some patterns and I started taking a look at that myself. Why couldn't I see them? I don't know. I could make some guesses but that's all they would be.
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I didn't see the realities either till i stopped and looked, and until i read what others had to say about this. I think it's due to social programming and brow-beating... must do the work, must do the work.
I now see the model of the paid savior who "validates" you at $150/hr as extremely problematic. It's putting your self-worth and sanity outside your self and in the hands of some clinical BFF who alleges to make you whole with her "professional concern". The message is... your self-worth must be bought like a commodity, do not try this at home.
This arrangement, depending on someone to furnish sense of self, seems to contradict everything that therapy preaches.