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Scenario

When peer support groups become enabling environments

Three of us in our therapy group all have different cluster B diagnoses and we started meeting outside of sessions to practice skills together, but lately it feels like we're just trauma bonding and enabling each other's avoidance patterns instead of actually growing, and I don't know how to bring this up without destroying what feels like the only real support we have.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Well-intentioned mutual support is subtly reinforcing the very patterns everyone is trying to change.

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