Annie wrote:
With your mom, I understand how you feel too. I love my mom, but there are some things I can't talk to her at all about for multiple reasons or some things I wish I could but I know would never work. Another thing therapy has started helping me with is having the ability to lay down my boundaries on certain topics, and have the courage to bring up others and help others see things from my perspective. Me and my mom have had conversations about my mental health that I'd never be able to have before I started seeing my therapist. And of course, she's not perfect, so sometimes she says or asks the wrong things. I can't make excuses for her, and it's really hard to not get upset over what she says, but at the end of the day I know that if there's an issue I can't resolve with her, I can see someone else who will guide me through the problem and either give me methods on how to fix things or help others help me, or just to help me move on from the problem. Of course it doesn't solve every issue, but it's really useful.