{"id":7275,"date":"2025-04-10T07:51:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7275\/"},"modified":"2025-04-10T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T07:51:25","slug":"people-share-22-mic-drop-moments-their-therapist-said-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/7275\/","title":{"rendered":"People share 22 mic-drop moments their therapist said to them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good mental health<\/a> is often achieved with the help of a therapist<\/a>. Therapists can be an incredible resources for getting additional support during hard times, overcoming challenges, or looking to change patterns. Their words and insights can lead to breakthroughs, realizations, and stick with you for years to come.<\/p>\n

So when the question “What’s one thing a therapist has said to you that you will never forget?” was asked in a discussion<\/a> among people who have gone to therapy, many decided to get vulnerable and share the most meaningful things they’ve been told by a therapist. <\/p>\n

These are 22 of the most inspiring, gut-wrenching, and impactful words and pieces of advice that people took away from their therapy sessions<\/a> that changed their lives.<\/p>\n

1. “‘Is the relationship you have now, the relationship you’d want for your children?’ (to which I had a fast and almost visceral response) and she went on to say ‘because this relationship will be the one their subconscious uses as the prime example of what they accept later in life.'” \u2013 Sarkasmic_Trix<\/p>\n

2. “‘Be kind to yourself.’ 40 years of therapy and those 4 words still resonate with me.” \u2013 ScottishWidow64<\/p>\n

3. “You are not responsible for other people’s happiness. You can contribute to it, but you are not ultimately responsible for someone else being happy or not.” \u2013 Shot_Razzmatazz5560<\/p>\n

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4. “‘Your thoughts are scarier than the real thing.'” \u2013 NewsgramLady<\/p>\n

5. “Not everyone is going to like you.” \u2013 Accomplished-Leg8461<\/p>\n

6. “When we are growing and developing, the animal part of our brain that ensures our survival is hard wired to tune into our protectors. Parental disapproval stokes fear of death, basically. That is why I absolutely panic when someone is angry with me. That helped me break that circuit and rewire my brain.” \u2013 SueBeee<\/p>\n

7. “Give yourself permission. When you have a permission slip, it makes it physically easier to do what you need to do for yourself and let go of feelings that get in the way. She literally made me get out sticky notes and write things like: ‘I give myself permission to let go of guilt. I give myself permission to have the wedding I want. I give myself permission to not be responsible for my mother.'” \u2013 iris_cat1313<\/p>\n

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8. “‘Analyzing and researching are also avoidance tactics to avoid feeling.'” \u2013 Gallumbits42<\/p>\n

9. “I was struggling with trying to ‘save’ my adult daughter dealing with substance use disorder. I was allowing her to live with me and she wasn\u2019t working or improving. I was reluctant (read codependent) to let her go and kick her out because maybe she\u2019d be homeless. Maybe her life would get worse. After months of this, my therapist looked at me in the eye and said: ‘Who made you god? Why do you think you have the power to save her?’ And that\u2019s when it hit me. I had no control over the situation. I had to let her go. I kicked her out in 2023. Today she\u2019s doing well. Sober, working and heading back to college. \u2764\ufe0f” \u2013 YellowFirestorm<\/p>\n

10. “As my ex was gaslighting, insulting me, being an all around terrible person to me saying the most awful things about me to me and the kids my therapist told me, ‘You can consider him an unreliable narrator.’ That helped me with perspective.” \u2013 ithinksotoomaybee<\/p>\n

11. “After sharing some work updates and just needing a sounding board to see if I was overreacting or not: ‘I\u2019m going to take my therapist hat off for one second, that\u2019s absolutely f*cked up, ok hat back on’.” \u2013 Vrey<\/p>\n

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12. “After 2 months of marriage counseling my therapist said that things were not going to get better and that my husband was not a diamond in the rough he was a piece of coal and even if he wanted and participated in therapy he was never going to get well in this lifetime.” \u2013 Puzzleheaded_Gear622<\/p>\n

13. “After I broke up with my ex, he said ‘Thank god, now you don’t need therapy anymore’. Was literally our last session.” \u2013 Aggravating_Pick_951<\/p>\n

14. “Regarding looking for love from certain family members, she said, ‘It’s like a child going to the pantry looking for food, but they’re isn’t any. It’s okay for that child to keep going back to that same pantry looking for food (even if there isn’t any) because they don’t know any better. But now that you’re grown, you may need to accept that there will never be food in that pantry. You need to look for a different pantry.'” \u2013 MikeOxmaul<\/p>\n

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15. “‘So you’re an orphan.’ (Both parents had died by my age of 46).” \u2013 AGPym<\/p>\n

16. “That sometimes we feel guilt or anger when the real feeling is helplessness. Sometimes it’s easier to feel like we failed instead of realizing we had no power over it at all.” \u2013 OhNever_Mind<\/p>\n

17. “‘These are feelings, not facts.'” \u2013 SweetSweet_Jane<\/p>\n

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18. “‘Their intent nor if they are consciously choosing to hurt you is what matters. Are they hurting you? Do you want it to continue? That is what matters.'” \u2013 Sarkasmic_Trix<\/p>\n

19. “‘Enabling can sometimes disguise itself as good intentions.'” \u2013 naughtytinytina<\/p>\n

20. “When discussing past drug use, we talked about how I maintained sobriety throughout both pregnancies. She asked why, nobody forced me to. I said it was the right thing to do. Then she says ‘if you can do the right thing for others, why can\u2019t you do it for yourself?’ Good question, Casey. Been thinking about that one a lot, even now. It\u2019s helped me work on my self destructive behaviors, helped me prioritize my own needs, and helped me maintain my sobriety now.” \u2013 Pure_Preference_5773<\/p>\n

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21. “Two things: ‘I think it\u2019s time you talk to your doctor’. (my situational depression was progressing to a point of no return, and it was time to be medicated. I went to my doctor that day. My therapist saved my life). ‘You\u2019re going to be OK.’ She said it so calmly and with such confidence. I believed her. And she was right.” \u2013 Numerous_Office_4671<\/p>\n

22. “‘You get to define what “family” means.'” \u2013 TrueBelievingMoron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good mental health is often achieved with the help of a therapist. Therapists can be an incredible resources…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4317],"tags":[4376,4380,4386,4388,4390,4384,4389,4391,4379,4378,4417,4382,4420,4421,2568,4416,4383,4381,4396,2308,105,4412,4393,4392,4414,4423,4406,4415,4422,218,4377,4405,4426,4404,4407,4385,4395,4387,4424,4425,4409,4411,4419,4418,4413,4410,4373,4374,1408,4375,4397,4398,4403,4399,16,15,4394,4408,4400,4402,4401],"class_list":{"0":"post-7275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-counseling","10":"tag-defy","11":"tag-defy-tv-network","12":"tag-defytv","13":"tag-duck","14":"tag-duck-dynasty","15":"tag-e1","16":"tag-emotional-health","17":"tag-emotions","18":"tag-empty","19":"tag-excited","20":"tag-feelings","21":"tag-feels","22":"tag-groceries","23":"tag-grocery","24":"tag-happiness","25":"tag-happy","26":"tag-happy-happy-happy","27":"tag-hbo","28":"tag-health","29":"tag-hungry","30":"tag-im-happy","31":"tag-im-so-happy","32":"tag-kitchen","33":"tag-lady-gaga","34":"tag-lauren-heller","35":"tag-looney-tunes","36":"tag-meltdown","37":"tag-mental-health","38":"tag-mental-health-tips","39":"tag-molly-bernard","40":"tag-national-sober-day","41":"tag-permission","42":"tag-permission-granted","43":"tag-s4","44":"tag-s4e1","45":"tag-so-happy","46":"tag-sober","47":"tag-sobriety","48":"tag-succession","49":"tag-succession-hbo","50":"tag-supplies","51":"tag-sylvester","52":"tag-thanksgiving","53":"tag-therapist","54":"tag-therapist-advice","55":"tag-therapists","56":"tag-therapy","57":"tag-therapy-help","58":"tag-til-duck-do-us-part","59":"tag-tv-land","60":"tag-tvl","61":"tag-tvland","62":"tag-uk","63":"tag-united-kingdom","64":"tag-very-happy","65":"tag-you-have-my-permission","66":"tag-younger","67":"tag-younger-tv","68":"tag-youngertv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}