Posted by Dinah on November 19, 2004, at 7:41:33
In reply to Re: Group is making me withdraw » Dinah, posted by cubic_me on November 19, 2004, at 7:24:54
This just may be my opinion, or my limited experience, but I think therapists waaaaay overestimate how much sharing other people really want you to do. Not in group of course, but in life. Your real life friends and family probably *don't* want to hear things like that because it scares them or they don't know what to say, not because they don't care.
IMHO, that's one reason we pay therapists. I wish my parents had had therapists.
Of course, my therapist has no clue that this is true. I wonder if they only interact with each other, each emoting freely as if they were in therapy, and have no earthly idea that the real world wants to hear "just fine" in response to "how are you" - even friends and family.
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