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When therapeutic narratives don't match lived experience

My therapist says my childhood trauma is why I cannot trust people but I grew up in a loving home and I am starting to think she is making me sick

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Imposed explanatory frameworks can conflict with one's authentic self-understanding and create new forms of psychological distress.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The psychology of belief and ideology?”

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