Posted by floatingbridge on September 2, 2009, at 22:49:41
In reply to more anger towards my therapist, posted by deerock on September 2, 2009, at 11:21:44
> i keep saying that i cannot work with someone who believes that there is something fundamentally wrong with me. and she says stuff like "we all have things that we need to work on."
>Deerock--maybe you're therapist doesn't agree that having a 'personality disorder' or as she says a 'disorder of the self' is the same as having 'something fundamentally wrong' with you, as you wrote above. People are scared of labels, and rightfully so--it allows us and others to pigeonhole each other.
If she or you believe there is something 'wrong' with you--like incurable cancer-- or being born without kidneys--this make the therapeutic situation seem futile.
Personality disorders exist on a spectrum. We all have the elements--this I believe.
Maybe you therapist is trying to keep you from battering yourself with a label.
sorry--more than two cents worth, perhaps,
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