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"If This Is the Apocalypse, Should I Still Be in Therapy?"

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“I mean, should I still be trying to self-actualize?” my client clarified for me, “if it’s all going to end anyway?” I pause, taking a minute to breathe before I deliver my response. “I think you know where I land on that debate, but the important question is, where do you?” She asked me this question in a joking tone, inviting me to take it as such, but chose to take the question at face value.

It’s a good question. When the rest of the world is thinking about economic collapse and infection and ventilators, can anyone be expected to strive for growth?

Are we capable of moving forward in our minds when so much within our physical lives has stalled? My client had stumbled upon an issue that lies at the heart of much debate within

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