I hate that shit so much honestly. I know they think it's their way of empathizing or saying "I know what you're going through" but it's incredibly frustrating when a partner or family member etc can't listen to one single story that you tell them of something bad happening without pulling some longer story out their ass about how the same thing happened to them BUT WORSE! They're like sympathy junkies or something.
My mother was a serial offender at this growing up. She even took it to another level by trying to one up you when you were sick. If someone in the house was unwell, all of a sudden she'd start acting like she was really sick as well because it killed her that someone else was getting sympathy or being fussed over. You wouldn't hear a peep out of her then you'd walk into the room and it would cue these fake exaggerated coughing fits and her walking around all slouched over like she was at deaths door then she'd be back to normal as soon as no one was around.
That's got to be like the most toxic trait ever for a therapist to have holy shit, it would drive me up the wall.
1.8k
u/SnooFoxes1943 1d ago
isn't that, like, the opposite of what a therapist is supposed to do?