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When grief groups discourage individual therapy

I feel like I'm cheating on my grief group by also seeing a private therapist because they always say we're enough for each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The insularity of shared suffering can become possessive, viewing outside help as betrayal rather than complement to collective healing.

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