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What you feel like is a handle on an issue or some problems or something like that.
I do think that talking it out sometimes like I sometimes I will really think I know how I feel about something.
And then when I talk to anybody about it, having to say out loud, the thing that I've been thinking in my head is a different barrier to break than than people recognize.
Sometimes it's sharing versus being alone with something.
Exactly, exactly.
And so it's like, I think that while therapy doesn't replace these things, I do think we're in this sort of era of isolation.
We're living in like an epidemic of loneliness.
And so I think therapy sometimes is just the first step in like...
It's not necessarily quite the same as community building, because I understand it's like you go in there, you pay a therapist, this person is being paid to listen to you.
So it takes a little bit of the of the
softness and the sweetness out of sharing sometimes, I guess, because there's a little bit of money involved.
But at the same time, I think that even people who have community, who have whatever their religious leader is or who do have people to talk to, sometimes you have your people to talk to about certain things and not that you should be
putting everyone in buckets.
But like, here's someone who is not, it's literally their professional job to not judge you or to not bring any preconceived notions about you when you share something.
And so I think that therapy is important for those two reasons.
One,
A lot of people don't have someone to talk to.
Even if you have someone to talk to, sometimes they're not the person you want to share that thing with because you're worried about them looking at you differently or no matter how much they say, they won't judge.
There's something about what you have to say that carries a certain weight that can't be taken back.
So I think it's good for those two main reasons, but I'm also like,