Jenn, a 26-year-old New Yorker who goes to therapy every week, first asked her parents for therapy in high school
This is one of seven interviews with young professionals about their experiences with therapy and its costs. Read the rest here.
When she was in high school, Jenn asked her parents for something that not many teenagers want: weekly trips to therapy.
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With a therapist, that conversation is all about you. You get in there and you are not responsible for hurting his feelings. … With your friends, you are censoring yourself to make sure that they like you. You are censoring yourself because you know your friends’ issues and you don’t want to exacerbate their own issues that they might have. Also, it’s super rude to monopolize the conversation.”
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