Anonymous thoughts about therapy.

What it does and what it doesn't.

The things that don't quite make it into the session.

The performance of progress for a therapist, the same way it's performed everywhere else.

Therapy signals

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Therapy is presented as the solution. The professional container for the things that can't be said elsewhere. And it does things — real things, over time. But it also has limits that aren't often acknowledged. The things you don't say in therapy because you don't know how, or because saying them makes them too real, or because you're performing progress for your therapist the same way you perform it everywhere else.

Anonymous thoughts about therapy posted here are the ones that didn't quite make it into the session. The honest account — including the ways therapy is working and the ways it isn't — without the edit.