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Therapy, with Friends

Invisibilia

CHAPTER

What Happens When We Polarize Inside the Relationship?

i felt compassion, and it was a very useful conversation. But i also remember feeling dehumanized. And i was just am curious, like, why does this happen? Wati, you know, where we kind of abstract the people on our lives. I don't think it's unique to friendship. It's not because somebody is more of something that it means that they are only that something.

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You know, i've experienced that before when
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sas you wondrom, what did you become?
Speaker 1
Well, i thinki im i represented focus on work and achievement, i think, for a friend, and when she told me that i understood, i felt compassion, and it was, you know, very useful conversation. But i also remember feeling dehumanized. And i was just am curious, like, why does this happen? Wati, you know, where we kind of abstract the people on our lives. I
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don't think it's unique to friendship. I think it's unique to the nature of some complex dilemmas. Here is a thing that we do, often do. It's not because somebody is more of something that it means that they are only that something. It's not because work matters more to you, that all that matters to you is work. And what happens when we polarize inside the relationship is that we tend to take something that is often and becomes on always, it becomes personified.

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