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View Poll Results: Did you hire a therapist to be a trial run for life? | ||||||
Yes | 2 | 5.71% | ||||
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No | 8 | 22.86% | ||||
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What? | 8 | 22.86% | ||||
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Of course not that is completely daft | 3 | 8.57% | ||||
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I didn't mean to when I started but it turned into it and helped | 5 | 14.29% | ||||
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I didn't mean to and when it turned into that it was damaging | 2 | 5.71% | ||||
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Yay baseball is on | 4 | 11.43% | ||||
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Other | 3 | 8.57% | ||||
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Did you hire a therapist to be a trial run for life?
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I chose to watch baseball--which I would rather gnaw off my own arm than watch--just to express how far away I was to therapy as a trial run for life.
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I chose Other because I have given up on individual therapy. I wasn't getting much out of it.
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I chose "I didn't mean to when I started but it turned into it and helped". When I first went to therapy the only goal I had was the very broad "I want to feel better". But I suppose that it turned into this and I didn't even realize it so much until now that I'm out and looking back on it. Even with the ups and downs and painful feelings and ruptures blah blah blah, overall, I still believe that therapy was the hardest and best thing I ever did for myself. I'll shut up now because that wasn't part of the poll.
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I chose "Yay Baseball is On" even though I'm not particularly a baseball fan, unless the Dodger's or the Angels make it to the world series, then I might take note, only because they are SO. Cal teams. I hired a T initially because there was a sort of intervention going on with my small group at Church (due to my SH) and they took me to someone's house who is a Social Worker and got me to say I would go to therapy if she would find me someone to go to. So she found my former T and I was with her for 10 years, but in no way was it a trial run for life. Therapy is so much different than real life.
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I haven't the foggiest idea what you are talking about.
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No I had a good life before therapy. I didnt need a trial run.
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I said "No" because I don't know what you mean.
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No. I hired a therapist because I was having trouble dealing with my actual life. However, I can see that if one is having difficulties in relationships with others, and this is something I struggle with to a degree myself, that getting some feedback from the therapist about how you are in relationships would be helpful. And it that sense, therapy could be seen as a trial run at life (relationships).
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No. I came to therapy depressed, looking for a way to get my insides to feel on par with my outside decent life. If someone had tried to sell me therapy that way, I’d have hard passed.
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Why would you hate to say it here? From this poll at least, it is not a super common thing therapy clients all share.
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I voted for Other, and that is to say that I certainly didn't intend it to be a 'trial run' for life...but through the process I am learning to be open about what I need, and ask for that without being cowed by fear.
My inability to ask for what I needed...(my abusers to stop doing what they were doing) is what got me into this mess in the first place. __________________ 'Somewhere up above the great divide Where the sky is wide, and the clouds are few A man can see his way clear to the light 'You have all the grace you need for today, and today is all that matters.' - Steve Austin |
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I also chose baseball as an alternative, which I never watch and don't even understand. It is one of the claims of some Ts that I dislike the most.
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But it is proving surprisingly popular as in the sense of even baseball is not as terrible of an idea or baffling as that of therapy being a trial run. Which I did not predict. __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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