Understanding therapy. Therapy reality: feeling seen, heard, validated, and supported.

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Depression is also smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky but - if that is the metaphor - you are the sky. You were there before it. And the cloud can’t exist without the sky, but the sky can exist without the cloud.

By Matt Haig

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Therapist: someone who joins you in your deepest darkness with a flashlight to help you find your way out.

By revelatori

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Mental illness is real. It isn’t feeling sad. It isn’t self pity or ‘woe is me’. It is illness. Illness so bad it can make you feel you can’t get through another day or hour or minute. And in some cases it is fatal. Never be shamed for talking about what you are going through.

By Matt Haig (@matthaig1)

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