
"I Need Me to Treat Me"
I've heard this comment from pretty much every therapist I know at some point, and I've uttered it myself from time to time - mostly from a place of frustration that very key physical post-collision issues were repeatedly being missed or that treatment was either too heavy handed or ineffectual. The benefits of "I need me to treat me" is obvious at first glance, but it also raises a dilemma as a therapist, and perhaps for not so obvious reasons. "Treat others as you wish to b