The Problem With Therapy

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Seeing a therapist is a daunting prospect for many people.The concept of opening up with your inner demons to what amounts to a complete stranger can be terrifying.

True they are trained experts, but it often feels like their clinical knowledge couldn’t possible transcended the experiential gap.

‘How could they know what I am feeling? They didn’t live through what I did.’

Add to this the stigma of mental illness, as well as what ‘opening up’ to someone means about...