Shame Around Cutting Off Parents

Therapists, what is something people are afraid to tell you because they think it's

weird but that you've actually heard a lot of times before? They don't like their family members.

They're angry, want to stop communication with their parents, et cetera. I work in a country

which is more culturally collectivist, so not wanting anything to do with your parents makes you

an asshole in the current cultural sense. We deal with this almost on a daily

basis. There's deep and profound shame in this, and when we find

that line of, oh, it might be that your parents are toxic to your mental

wellbeing, trigger your trauma, many of my clients actually get visibly angry with me.