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> but talking to friends about favorite video games while weaving them was like free therapy.

This is backwards. Your friends aren't cheap knockoffs of a therapist. Therapists are people you pay to pretend to be your friend.



This is bassakwards. A therapist isn’t supposed to be - let alone pretend to be - your friend at all.


No parasocial experience really is. However, intent of the therapist may not be fully acknowledged by the patients.




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