The Importance of Creating an Impression in Therapy

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I would have a hard time separating like me actually talking and me trying to create this impression in the therapist almost like a little cat and mouse game. Yeah, because it is it's built to the the therapeutic experiences. So much of it is you decide what you're going to tell to this person that you you are from scratch building up a view of you that you are trying to give to the therapist. And so you really have this sense of there's no actual me here. I feel this sometimes where again at a more micro scale you do sometimes say things in a way that you know the person is going to be impressed Like self deprecating remarks that you know are actually going to

Our whole lives we’ve been frauds. We’re not exaggerating. Pretty much all we’ve ever done is try to create a certain impression of us in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. This episode is a perfect example, Tamler pretending to be a cinephile (check out his four favorite pieces of 2019 “pop culture” in the first segment), David trying to connect with the people (Baby Yoda, Keanu Reeves etc.) – and of course what could be more fraudulent than a deep dive into a David Foster Wallace story, rhapsodizing over the endless sentences, the logical paradoxes, the seven-layer bean-dip of metacommentary (Jesus Christ I’m surprised there aren’t like eight footnotes in this episode description), and meanwhile the Partially Examined Life dudes refresh their overcast feeds and wonder through the tiny keyhole of themselves how David and Tamler have sunk so low that they’d ramble on about “Good Old Neon” like a couple of first year Comp-Lit grad students trying to impress that girl who works at the Cajun bakery.