People Are Sharing The Most Memorable Things Their Therapists Have Said To Them

18. “Stop worrying about what you should do. What do you want to do?”

19. “‘You were doing what you could do to survive. You did the best you could, and you are doing the best you can.’ That, and explaining the PTSD model to me, was truly the most life-changing moment ever. I see myself and the world completely different now.”

20. “All my life, my mom has trauma dumped me, expected me to not have my own feelings, and would bring me around people I wasn’t comfortable with. At the time, I went along with it just so that her feelings didn’t get hurt. Well, my therapist said, ‘You are not responsible for your mother’s feelings,’ and that stuck.”

21. “I was told, ‘Just because you FEEL fragile, it doesn’t mean you ARE fragile.’ That was said to me probably a decade ago, and I still think about it multiple times a day.”
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22. “For two months, I planned to escape my house and leave my emotionally and physically abusive family. They were leeching money out of me — I was severely depressed and cried myself to sleep so many times. I couldn’t take it anymore. I told my therapist that I was going to leave and never look back. She said, ‘Good. You deserve to be happy.'”

23. “My therapist said, ‘Support. Don’t solve.’ That made me realize that I can’t solve a problem that isn’t mine to solve. I was so wrapped up in my mother’s problems that I was unable to relax. She was truly on my mind 24/7, and it was to the point where I’d go whole nights without sleep. And because I wasn’t present in my own life, it became impossible for me to enjoy my life or appreciate the good around me. I was trapped inside my own head, trying to solve my mother’s problems.”
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