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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you go to a therapist, you tell them your woes but from an extremely biased, first person perspective. The therapist recieves the information from a biased narrator with no perspective or insight into other people the patient may reference.

How would a therapist guide you if she/he spends the entire session validating your perspective?

There are so many people who dig deeper into their dysfunction or selfishness because they’re now being validated by certified therapists. [/quote]

Totally agree.  Depression and other mental illnesses come with "mental distortions" and the function of the therapist is to point these out.  But if they don't involve other members of the family, etc., [b]they cannot determine what is a distortion.[/b]  In addition, most therapists do not keep up with mental health research and so fail to emphasize physical habits and other things that could make a difference. - MSW[/quote]

they cannot now the specific of the other side of the issue, but good therapists are well aware that their patient's stories are one-sided. distortions that they are working on relate to how people perceive their own situation, options, future.[/quote]

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