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The Benefits of Friendship
Psychiatrist Harry Staxleben argues that the therapy experience is similar to the chum ship experience in that with your friends, you share things that you feel like you should be ashamed of. We are able to relinquish all of the energies that we spent trying to push this thing away. And so in that way, the experience of experiencing that platonic love from our friends can help us become who we fully are.