According to my therapist, attaching conditionals to your p… - Ben Aaronovitch

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According to my therapist, attaching conditionals to your past is a classic distancing technique indicating an unwillingness to face your memories directly. Or, I pointed out, it could be a rhetorical device designed to add a humorous note to enliven a story. To which she said, “Or both.” You can’t win with therapists, you know. And even if you do, they just tell you it’s part of the process.

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Ben Dylan Aaronovitch (born February 1964) is an English author and screenwriter.

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