Posted by alexandra_k on July 3, 2005, at 18:22:56
In reply to Re: Are therapists happy persons themselves??, posted by alexandra_k on July 3, 2005, at 15:57:27
Though with respect to happiness:
> I have known people to be better and worse and much the same.
I really should qualify the 'worse and much the same'. I guess it depends on what you mean by happiness. You wouldn't expect a t to be plagued by the effects of mental illness quite the way that we are. Or at least... Not so very much of the time.
You would expect them to be a bit better at seeing their own way out and using the techniques they try and teach us in their own lives. Presumably their lives are the better for that - which is why they are trying to teach us those techniques. Or at least I'd be very suspicious of someone who didn't benefit from them thinking that I would benefit from them (unless their experience really was very different from mine)..
Just rambelling now, really...
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