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How class differences affect therapy and healing

I'm in therapy talking about my childhood and my therapist keeps asking why I didn't tell a trusted adult about the neglect, but there weren't any trusted adults with resources in my world.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your therapist's assumptions about available support systems don't match the reality of how poverty isolates families.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Poverty and identity?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.