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Brian37 said:
is there such a thing as a "perfect" therapist?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I think that's a good question, Brian. I don't expect my therapist to be perfect. My therapist is human and I love that. Maybe a robot would be perfect, and who wants that? But a human has the capacity for great love, joy, and also failure and missteps.

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Sometimes my therapist says something or does something that makes me afraid

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">Pachyderm, you seem to learn a lot about yourself from these less than perfect interactions with your therapist, and make connections to origins of your current behavior in your childhood. So it sounds very valuable. What does your therapist say or suggest when you share these thoughts and connections with him?

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are these things really in the past? Or are they still true today?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">The original occurrences were in the past but it sounds like they set up a behavior pattern that is still with you today. Sounds like you want to change that? Good goal.