🔦 Therapist Missed Your Switch? Hand ’em a Flashlight. We’ve Got Batteries.

What to do when masking hides your truth — even from your therapist. No, you’re not faking. You’re just really good at surviving.

💬 “She Didn’t Even Notice I Switched…”

You’re in therapy. You’re doing the work.

And then it happens:

A part shows up. They don’t shout. They don’t flail. They mask and blend in — like your system learned to do. It’s a habit, as reflexive as inhaling after you exhale.

Maybe they shift your posture just a smidge.

Maybe your voice gets a teensy bit softer, smaller, or snappier.

Maybe they say something a little different or smart or scared.

And your therapist… keeps going.

Like nothing happened.

Like it’s still “you.”

And suddenly, the doubt creeps in:

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