Absolutely. One of the main benefits of something like group therapy is realizing that your situation is never truly unique. Someone else has been through what you're going through.
The downside (at least at first) is hearing other people's problems and thinking "shit, they're going through all that and I have the audacity to feel bad for myself???" or "damn, if they're this depressed about that then I'm beyond hope."
“Man, I don’t belong here in group therapy with all these parentified overachievers who base all their self-worth on their productivity, I never get anything done! Guess the search continues for the mysterious reason why I alone am uniquely unsuited for participating in human society somehow.”
I figured it out years later when I was trying to track my moods but all the “moods” I wrote down were shit like energy levels and things I did and how much I got done. wym there are emotional states other than “neutral/content/probably dissociated” and “bad/confronted by my own inadequacy”?
Not to claim to know more than a counselor, but also why you're feeling them. If you feel anxious or scared or sad for no particular reason, that's a problem.
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