My therapist keeps asking me what I want but I've spent so long being what other people needed that I genuinely don't know who I am when no one is watching.
More people experience this than they realize.
He's confronting the realization that his sense of self has been constructed entirely through external validation rather than internal knowing.
“Where Are You with Self-concept and how it forms?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.