Therapy Bingo: 15 Things My Therapist Has Actually Said (And Why I Pretended Not to Hear Half of Them)
There is a very specific kind of humility that comes from sitting on a couch (virtual or otherwise), confidently explaining your behavior for forty-five uninterrupted minutes, only for a licensed professional to gently tilt their head and say one sentence that dismantles your entire narrative framework. Therapy is not dramatic the way movies portray it — there’s no orchestral swell, no instant breakthrough — it’s quieter, sharper, and often deeply inconvenient. It is a slow peeling back of defense mechanisms you’ve polished for years, disguised as personality traits. And somewhere along the way, you realize you’ve accidentally been playing Therapy Bingo, because certain phrases keep coming up no matter how creatively you attempt to rebrand your patterns. One of the first squares on the board: “What evidence do you have for that thought?” This question sounds harmless until you realize how frequently your brain manufactures conclusions without submitting supporting documentation....
