Trusting or Suspicious

Years ago I undertook some psychotherapy. During this a therapist said that they thought I was suspicious of people. There was the view sometimes held by some therapists in the organisation that provided the therapy that sometimes others can see us more clearly than we can ourselves. Also that we need insight into ourselves in order to progress. To this I thought to myself well I had better believe the therapist then. Of course they are the experts. After all I want to grow and become better in myself etc. So I went around believing them. I trusted their view that I was none trusting. After I finished with the therapist I had some less frequent follow up therapy from another therapist. I told this therapist the same things about myself. This other therapist told me that they thought I was too trusting of people. This caused me to think. Obviously I am being told completely different things. I wanted to check this out so I decided to ask my Friends what they thought. Starting with my girlfriend she told me that she thought I was too trusting of people. Some other Friends said that I was more on the trusting side.

Oh well what does this mean "so much for therapists" well maybe I wouldn't go that far but but it shows how even experts can see things differently even within their own field. Perhaps I should have listened more to myself rather than trust a therapists version of who I was. But hey wouldn't it just put them all out of work if we all did that.