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When helping others is your job but you can't help yourself

I'm a therapist and I can help everyone else but I'm falling apart inside and I feel like a fraud for not being able to fix myself.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Professional competence in healing others can create painful disconnection from one's own vulnerability and need for support.

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