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Default Apr 13, 2021 at 03:43 PM
 
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Originally Posted by ArtleyWilkins View Post
What your therapist is doing is modeling acceptance and caring of you, even at your "worst." But you may not recognize that's is what is going on.
I don't disagree that might be their intention, but how very unnatural! People in real life do not respond this way unless they just don't care. Or, I suppose, if a parent is too tired to engage with a tantruming child. I'm left wondering what the point is of modeling such a bizarre response that will never be replicated in life. Maybe it's me... I've been equally baffled by other things therapists are said to model.

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