Re:I was an astrologer
by chooseaname on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:25AM
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I agree with you. My spouse and I foster. We see the effects of trauma day in and day out; both in the children and their bio parents. People cannot get the help they need from a psychic. The trauma has rewired their brains and they need to learn tools to cope with that. A psychic won't teach them any of those coping tools. A psychic is a cigarette to a drug addict. It's another addiction that takes the edge off.
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Re:I was an astrologer
by jermaustin1 on Thursday November 07, 2019 @09:47AM
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Now a Therapist can also be that cigarette.
The anxiety I used to feel when I or my therapist was going away and wouldn't see each other for a couple weeks to a month was harder to deal with than I thought it would be.
But we worked through that. A therapist is a cigarette that tries to get you to quit.
My wife says that her ultimate goal is to no longer be needed by a couple so she can move on to another.
Re:I was an astrologer
by lonelappde on Thursday November 07, 2019 @10:33AM
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A good therapist. We also have therapists that exist to maximize billable hours, and build whole theories of practice around it, like 40hr/week ABA therapy.
There's also shitty therapists who don't know what they are doing and so shame their clients to hide their incompetence. As per Sturgeon's law[1] these therapists outnumber the good ones.