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When professional spaces do not reward performative coping

I told my therapist a really funny story about my trauma and she did not laugh and now I do not know how to talk about it without the punchline.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic relationship can expose how humor has become the only acceptable way to discuss pain, creating resistance when that strategy is not reinforced.

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