Thoughts On Therapy - The Real Sarah Miller

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This is a free post from The Real Sarah Miller. If you enjoy this newsletter and can afford it, please consider subscribing so that I can keep it free for those who can’t. When I was in my 30s I got a therapist I was pretty sure could fix me, because he was expensive. Within the first month of seeing him he told me I had borderline personality disorder and also that my family was super fucked up. I read about borderline personality disorder. “I don’t think I have that,” I said to him. “It sounds very extreme. Additionally, my family is not that fucked up. I did live with them for 18 years…

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