Posted by emmanuel98 on February 24, 2010, at 21:30:42
In reply to therapy or going it alone, posted by deerock on February 23, 2010, at 22:25:11
Maybe, when someone comments on your being better, instead of saying, yeah, my T helped me, you can say, yeah, I've worked very hard on this with my T. I always thought of therapy as a kind of collaboration. I would not have gotten better on my own -- if I had been able to, I wouldn't have gone to a T. But therapy only worked because I was willing to do the work. That's something my T made a lot of -- that everything depended on my being willing to do the work. So yes, you feel some dependence, but allowing yourself to feel that and work through it is part of the work of therapy. It's work you do on yourself with your T's help.
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