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Originally Posted by Moose72
My therapist says I’m not focused in therapy. That I talk about umpteen different topics. Well I said I still can’t reconcile good Dad vs bad Dad. But she thought I could come up with more good things than bad about him than bad. I can’t reconcile the good times with the bad and when I say bad I mean abuse. I have a few memories of that but my mom tells me it was much worse_ something she didn’t want to reveal while he was still alive. Stuff like affairs, professionals if you know what I mean, illegal drugs and drinking when he wasn’t home. How does one reconcile the good memories with the bad? Still can’t do it and we’ve been talking about it in therapy for six weeks now.
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If one thing stuck out from me from DBT it's that there are no "good" or "bad" people. I think people just do what they know, or what they think they know is going to best the best outcome (for themselves usually). There's a section in my DBT workbook about integrating that seems like opposites. If I can find it online I'll PM it to you
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