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Originally Posted by BudFox
This:
"People want to believe there’s someone out there that knows, and so they’re willing to accept subjugation. What if nobody knows any better than you? Until you realize that, you’re not an adult. That’s really, technically, the point of realization of adulthood, that no one actually knows what you should do more than you do." -- Jordan Peterson
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And what if going to therapy, for many of us, in not about believing somebody else "knows any better than you," but rather, we use therapy as a space where we have another willing person who will listen, help us perhaps find a way toward our own "realization" of "adulthood"? Most people don't go to therapy to "accept subjugation;" we've already been the victims of subjugation throughout our childhoods (generally), and therapy is a pathway beyond that experience of childhood subjugation into our own personal insight and adult autonomy.