do y'all actually know people who've been in therapy for like 5+ years and it doesn't seem to be helping them very much? i keep hearing about these people but i don't actually know any. what kind of therapy do they do?
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My mom was in therapy for like 40 years and I didn't get the sense that it helped her any or that she had any emotional skills at all, it felt like it was just enabling her abuse of other people. I don't know which kind, but almost all therapists in Finland are Freudian.
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yikes 😬 40 years is too long by like 2 orders of magnitude
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Yeah! And usually when people have been in therapy for a few years, you can at least tell they have developed some skills or awareness from it, but I never got that sense with her. I think she'd have needed trauma therapy, but that didn't really exist in Finland.
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