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When therapists pathologize your sexual orientation

I'm gay and happy about it but my therapist keeps asking about my 'trauma' like something bad must have happened to make me this way.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Healing becomes impossible when the person meant to help you treats your identity as evidence of damage.

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