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People Share Bombshells Their Therapist Dropped That Totally Changed Their Perspective
Oct 13, 2025
I love therapy.
If only I could afford it regularly.
When I was consistent with my sessions, I learned so much.
I learned about life as a whole and myself as an identity.
Therapists have done so much good for so many.
Therapists who are accredited and learned, that is.
Not the armchair loonies on TikTok.
If you're seeking help, find the right doctor... a real one.
The results can be astounding.
Redditor pottipenguin wanted to discuss everyone's most life-changing therapy sessions, so they asked:
"What’s a small bombshell your therapist dropped during a session that completely shifted your perspective?"
Happiness
"Your brain is there to keep you alive, not happy. You need to do things that make you happy, not just expect it from your intellect."
"Well, this comment got a lot more attention than expected. Thanks everyone, I hope it helps someone!"
- Misfit_somewhere
Grateful...
"The night my dad died, we were at his hospital bedside... I'd banned my abusive boyfriend at the time from coming as I didn't want him there, and my family didn't like him... he kept ringing my mum as I switched my phone off... I beat myself up for years and said to my therapist that the last thing my dad heard was me arguing with my ex."
"My therapist said, 'How about your dad heard you standing up to him and telling him no? 'I am so grateful she said this, and I tell her that often, as it completely shifted that shame... I totally believe that my dad would have been so proud of me for telling my ex no."
- beaky1994
Strife...
"I described what another person must have been thinking/feeling when they did X. My therapist described an alternative version of what they may have been thinking/feeling, which was immediately completely plausible, and was a much kinder interpretation than mine."
"It was then that I realized my interpretation of reality could (potentially) be really flawed and cause me unnecessary strife."
"It made me realize that I should be much slower to judge actions/words, and that, especially in the case of people whom I had reason to trust, I should actually seek clarification before I jumped to emotional conclusions."
- whynotthebest
A Bag of Bricks
"When discussing why I felt like I couldn't leave my abusive relationship, when I said that it wasn't some pattern of behavior for me, and that id never found myself in a situation like this before.'
"She told me that this relationship mimicked the cycle of abuse I had been dealing with since I was a child, with my mother. The abuse. The stonewalling. Silent treatment. Blaming me for her behavior. Discard/disown. The re-emergence with no accountability. The denial of any wrongdoing. Over and over for decades. It was exactly, exactly the same."
"I'd never found myself in this situation romantically out of pure luck, I'd just never had any abusive partners before. But my response to abuse was to revert almost exactly the way I did as a child and young adult with my mother."
"Make myself small. Prioritize the relationship over my well-being. Have no boundaries. Forgive everything. Walk on eggshells. Do everything I can (including therapy) to fix myself, and figure out how to solve the situation, all on my own. Revert into myself. Build walls emotionally. Disassociate.'
"Hit me like a bag of bricks."
- PureOpportunity6427
Astonishing...
"I've always had a rough time remembering things. Being on time. Losing focus etc. At my request my GP sent me to a psychologist for an ADHD assessment when I was 37 years old. I had been reading up on it and it sounded just like me, but also I had imposter syndrome bad and as soon as the appointment was made I started doubting myself."
"I get to my first appointment an hour early, with all my paperwork ready to go. I just knew he was going to say I was fine and send me on my way just based on that. But no, not only did I have the wrong day, It was the wrong month."
"The second session, he sat me down and said, 'The fact that you have gone this long without a diagnosis or any help is frankly astonishing. I have to ask, with no disrespect, how have you held down a job?'"
"Everything changed after that. Hearing confirmation that something was off and it wasn't just me being lazy totally shifted my perspective. I got on medication, I started researching how to help myself that would work with how I perceived life. It was honestly life changing in the best way."
"I still have my moments but now that I understand why I do things the way I do, I can counter them or even prevent them."
- Ezada
Bad Fit
“'Well, that’s what I would want in any relationship. Why wouldn’t you want that too?'”
"Made me realize my long-term therapist wasn’t a good fit for me. I realized they had been projecting their own relationship and issues into my sessions."
- FickleCharge882
Psycho
"The angriest person looks the craziest. Doesn't matter if you're right, you look like a psycho."
"I have anger issues and could not understand why people couldn't see why. It's because my actions and levels of anger made people think I was crazy."
"Edit: thank you all for your replies!! I wanted to add that I had a horrible childhood, marriage, and other relationships. My go to reaction has always been to be pissed off. Especially when I saw or heard someone doing something wrong. I would explode, making myself look psychotic while the person doing bad shit stayed calm and therefore made onlookers believe I was in the wrong. It took me many years to lock that anger up (and I still have to work on it daily) so that I could prove that I am not actually psychotic."
- jokersmile27
Kindness
"That I was deserving of the same kindness I showed other humans and animals."
"He asked what I liked most about myself. After a long pause, I said I was kind. He asked for examples. I told him about cooking for ill friends, staying sober purely to trip sit some crazy parties, being vegan solely for ethical reasons, working with disabled and sometimes violent kids for minimum wage, picking up stranded friends, volunteering for animal charities, being the house that everyone came to when they had a problem. "
"He nodded thoughtfully. Then asked, but are you kind to yourself? Just the idea that I was worthy of my own kindness completely blew my depressed little brain."
- shiftyemu
ALL THE TIME
"I'm someone who beats themselves up ALL THE TIME for have feelings, partially the eldest child curse but also an abusive father who would punish me for things that weren't my fault and past exes who made me feel like my feelings were inconvenient or annoying to them... its' wired me to stay silent when upset and not ask for things I need from people because if I do, l'm afraid I might hurt their feelings and they won't choose me."
"When approaching hard conversations or issues with others, I am so absorbed in worrying about them that I second-guess if its ok to feel what I feel and if it's fair to even be upset, so I struggle with trying to set boundaries for myself. When talking with my therapist about whether its fair to ask for this or that from someone and whether or not something is a 'big enough deal to bring up' he looks at me and says:"
“'It doesn't matter what they think, it's a big deal to you. That’s enough.'”
"Made me SOB haha."
- blue_tiny_teacup
STUNNED
"When I was 22 or so and just starting to go to therapy and realize how terrible my childhood was- a doctor told my best friend's sister who was like 20 at the time, 'As children you're a victim, as adults we're volunteers' and we were STUNNED - like WTF is this duck talking about?!? And now I really see what he meant. My psychiatrist said once when I was complaining about being such a people pleaser- 'Were they ever PLeasEd?" No, no they were not.'"
- ResponsibleSail5802
Let it Flow...
"Don’t fight the pain, let it pass through."
- AppleVenusVol1
The End
"She refused to continue treating me if my goal was to stay with my husband because she wouldn't enable his abuse. If I wanted help leaving, she would provide resources and support, but otherwise, there was nothing more she could do."
"Probably not the most orthodox method of ending treatment, but it shocked me out of my denial and excuses. It took another month or so to wrap my head around it, but once my eyes were opened I couldn't ignore it anymore."
- filthyantagonist
No-Contact
"That a 'friend' I did volunteer work for - and who treated me like s**t - was pretty much the same guy as my father (temper, behaviour). That was mind-blowing, because while I was no contact with my father already, as I saw the issues there, I completely ignored it with that dude. I am now no-contact with both. :-D"
- trullaDE
DAY 1
"That I'm just mimicking learned behaviors (both good and bad) from people in my life and I needed to figure out who I was, what I actually liked, what my genuine reactions were to things. That caused me to pause more often and say, 'Is this me or my mother/father/grandparents?' She changed my perspective on day 1."
- ssejoya
That is a lot of released pain.
That is a lot of success.
Everyone is walking around with unresolved issues.
Things can get better.
And sometimes the answer is shockingly simplistic.
We just need the right person to help us unlock the answers.
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Taylor Swift: Kelce's Drunken Encounter
Oct 10, 2025
He’s Just Travis.
At least that’s how Taylor Swift describes her fiancé—a man who can catch a football midair but apparently can’t tell an Oscar-nominated director from Hugh Grant’s wife after a few tequila shots.
During her Late Night with Seth Meyers appearance on October 8, Swift recalled the now-legendary mix-up that happened when Kansas City Chiefs football player Travis Kelce confused Barbie director Greta Gerwig with Anna Eberstein, Grant’s actual spouse, at the London stop of her Eras Tour.
Meyers kicked things off by showing a video of Kelce mingling and dancing in a VIP tent so star-studded it looked like the Met Gala met Coachella—Hugh Grant, Tom Cruise, Liam Hemsworth, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, and (supposedly) Greta Gerwig—before asking Swift if “the story he heard was true?”
You can watch the now-infamous tent video here:
The video captured night two of the Eras Tour leg in Wembley Stadium, where Kelce’s friends from Cleveland Heights were also present.
Swift admitted she had major FOMO watching the chaos unfold:
“I can see everyone getting drunker and wilder.”
I guess FOMO hits different when your VIP tent looks like a Barbie-themed fever dream.
But Swift didn’t miss out entirely; Kelce made sure to spill every last drop of VIP tea on the ride home:
“The most fun thing about having Travis out on tour is he would go to the tents and give me the tea afterward. We'd do the debrief afterward in the car.”
Unfortunately, tequila and tight ends don’t mix well when it comes to reliable eyewitness accounts.
According to Swift, Kelce spotted Grant and his wife dancing and assumed Eberstein was Gerwig. Fueled by confidence (and possibly too many Casamigos), he decided this was his moment to compliment the Academy-nominated director.
Kelce explained to Swift:
“I walked up to her and said, 'I love 'Barbie.' I'm just Ken, too.' And then I pointed to you. She smiled politely, but she didn't say anything.”
Eberstein’s polite smile didn’t raise alarms for Kelce, who figured Gerwig had just heard one too many Ken jokes. Later, he told Swift that “Gerwig” and Grant “seemed like soulmates” as they partied closely together and probably “had a movie together.”
Confused, Swift told her fiancé:
“The tea is crazy tonight, Travis… I have several follow-up questions.”
Naturally, she did what any self-respecting pop star detective would do: opened TikTok. Sure enough, she found video after video of Kelce dancing with someone who looked like Greta Gerwig herself.
You can view a close-up of the Kelce and Gerwig "Shake It Off" singalong here:
When she asked him to confirm, he drunkenly didn’t miss a beat: “That’s not Greta.”
That’s when Swift did the math herself:
“Is there any chance the people that looked like soulmates were Hugh Grant and his soulmate?”
Cue the secondhand embarrassment. Honestly, are we sure Greta wasn’t secretly inspired by Travis Kelce when she wrote Ken?
Grant and Eberstein clearly qualify as soulmates. Together since 2012 and married in 2018, the Swedish TV producer and the Love Actually star share three children and a habit of stealing the spotlight at Wimbledon — she looking like Scandinavian royalty, he appearing as if he’d rather be anywhere else with her. Essentially, they prove that opposites really do attract.
Meyers complimented:
“The good thing is he recognized true love. He saw soulmates, and he knew you were soulmates.”
You can watch the hilarious interview clip here:
@latenightseth @Taylor Swift spills the tea on how @Travis Kelce first met Greta Gerwig and his classic mix-up 😅
After going public in the fall of 2023, the pair got engaged last summer during a Lake Como getaway that, naturally, went viral on Instagram. Their romance has been one long pop-culture fever dream—equal parts Super Bowl touchdown and bridge breakdown—with Swift cheering in stadium suites and Kelce showing up at her concerts like the world’s most committed gossip ambassador.
You can view the Swift-Kelce Love Story-themed engagement post here:
And no hard feelings from Grant, either. After attending the concert, he posted on X, thanking “one aging London boy, wife, and thrilled 8-year-old” and giving Kelce a special shoutout as an “excellent if gigantic boyfriend.” He ended with a fitting #TequilaShots.
Swift responded in peak Taylor fashion:
“As a long-time Hugh Grant stan, this tweet is very important to my culture.”
Swifties immediately flooded social media on the wholesome Travis Eras Tour mix-up:
Now, with The Life of a Showgirl—her 12th studio album—smashing every conceivable chart record, Swift told Meyers this era feels particularly special. It already moved 2.7 million copies in its very first day in the U.S. and by mid-week was sitting near 3.2 million in pure sales alone.
Swift gushed:
“It’s been the most joyful album release I’ve ever had.”
The interview also marked the end of her Showgirl press tour, a full-circle moment for an artist whose numerology-loving fans noticed that Meyers’ 1,713th episode (which adds up to 12) lined up perfectly with her 12th album and her lucky number, 13.
As for what’s next? The Eras Tour is wrapped, and Swift is officially swapping setlists for wedding seating charts.
Meyers, ever so helpful, even offered his unsolicited advice on invitations, suggesting they go digital or framed so guests “can hang them up when they brag about going.”
You can watch Meyers’ wedding tips to Taylor Swift below:
- YouTubeLate Night with Seth Meyers
Maybe Meyers should stick to late-night hosting—and Travis should invest in a pair of glasses before the rehearsal dinner.
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George Clooney Explains Why He Decided To Move His 8-Year-Old Twins To France—And It Makes Sense
Oct 10, 2025
Most parents will do all that they can to provide the best lives for their children. Celebrities are uniquely able to provide for their kids, thanks to their higher income and access to resources.
George Clooney and his wife, Amal, opened up about their decision to raise their eight-year-old twin daughters, Ella and Alexander, abroad in rural France on a remote farm, far away from the United States and Hollywood.
Clooney explained:
"[We want to give our daughters] a fair shake at life."
"You know, we live on a farm in France."
"A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid, I hated the whole idea of it. But now, for them, it's like, they're not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in."
"They have a much better life."
This move happened initially because of the couple's concerns about raising their daughters in Hollywood.
"[We] were worried about raising our kids in LA, in the culture of Hollywood."
"I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life."
"France, they kind of don't give a s**t about fame. I don't want them walking around worried about paparazzi. I don't want them being compared to somebody else's famous kids."
The Clooneys' decision made its way over to the "Entertainment" subReddit, where Redditors had mixed reactions.
Some mocked the couple's privilege.
"Wish I could move to my farm in France to get away from it all." - CBStrike90
"Have you tried being a Hollywood A lister?" - Variable_Shaman_3825
"Maybe thats the trade off. Get super famous, get rich, and if youre smart you use that money to fuck off and try and live a normal life. Doesn't sound too bad, if you can manage to not crave the attention like most." - Green_Apprentice
"A normal life where you're 100% financially safe and dont need to work a day in your life." - send820rabbits
But most appreciated parents, famous or not, for doing what they could for their children.
"This honestly might get grilled but I respect it so hard."
"My dad where I live (Vancouver, Canada) was a five-star chef/restauranteur and refused to allow my brother and I to do any cooking beyond house stuff and would actively tell us 'NO' when we said, 'I want to do what my dad does.'"
"Both industries are so draining and horrible, and now in my adult years, I get so much him wanting to protect his kids from it." - Schrodingers_Fist
"Didn't think I'd ever have anything in common with him. I hated growing up on the farm but now I wish I bought my family's land... Even just to live on." - Scrooge-McShillbucks
"The negativity over a reasonable statement here is wild. this is a good take and should be applauded compared to a lot of horrible upbringings famous kids have."
"Sure, he’s slightly out of touch, but people have to try to stand in his shoes while reading this statement. He’s George Clooney; and it sounds like he’s trying his best." - monty_burns
"Like yeah, he's ultra rich, etc, but I'd argue his kids are much more likely to not be a**holes because of this decision. Can you imagine how impossible it would be to not be a piece of s**t if you grew up IN LA with A-list parents?" - WaitUntilTheHighway
"I know I've seen many many pictures of him and his wife but yeah, I couldn't tell you what his kids look like at all in comparison to other famous people."
"I really like that, because his kids aren’t famous and we should have very little knowledge on their lives. If they decide to pursue acting that would be one thing but they haven’t so we should all leave them alone." - benringo2
"That’s admirable and wise to keep them away from all that. George Clooney is worldwide ultrafamous and I know nothing about his kids. That’s great. I would say that’s a parenting success on their part. Nicely done." - zestfullybe
Amal Clooney also previously told Glamour Magazine that she confiscates visitors' phones to guarantee her daughters' privacy.
"Creating private moments and spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. But that's also why we entertain a lot at home. I have a phone basket that I use to take everyone's phones away."
"It's important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange."
"We do the best we can to minimize any impact on our children. We don't put our children out there; we've never put their photo out there or anything like that."
Picking up and moving to a remote part of a country abroad is not in the cards for most parents, but it's endearing to see a couple use the means they have to provide a "normal" home environment for their kids.
There's no telling if Emma and Alexander will be interested in fame when they are older, but for now while they're young, at least they're being protected so they can make that decision for themselves.
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Trump's Ultra-Creepy Interaction With Female MAGA Influencer Has People Recoiling
Oct 10, 2025
Conservative influencer Brandi Kruse had a creepy interaction with President Donald Trump during a White House roundtable on Antifa on Wednesday that had critics feeling absolutely repulsed.
Antifa is a loose network of anti-fascist activists with no central structure, no funding, no membership roster, and no offices or leadership hierarchy for prosecutors to target. Despite this, Trump recently signed an executive order declaring it a "domestic terror organization," a move that's been celebrated by his supporters.
Among those in attendance at the roundtable was Kruse, a conservative content creator from Seattle, who told Trump she was “living proof that you can recover” from so-called “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” which isn't a real thing, just an insult Trump's supporters have hurled at critics for years.
Kruse said:
"I'm living proof that you can recover from TDS. I had strong Trump Derangement Syndrome for probably eight years. This is one of the reasons I recovered from it."
"And by the way, it's much better to not have TDS. I'm happier, healthier, more successful. I even think I got a little more attractive after I got rid of my Trump Derangement Syndrome."
Trump—who was mocked by California Governor Gavin Newsom for seemingly falling asleep during the event—responded:
"Very attractive."
You can see their interaction in the video below.
It was weird—very weird—and people were undeniably creeped out.
Trump Derangement Syndrome is not recognized as a legitimate mental disorder, but Trump supporters are eager to treat it as such as the administration vows to crack down on left-wing dissent.
Earlier this year, Ohio Representative Warren Davidson introduced the Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) Research Act of 2025, which would, according to a press release, "direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the psychological and social roots" of the "syndrome."
Warren's co-sponsor, Alabama Representative Barry Moore, said "Trump Derangement Syndrome has become an epidemic on the Left," stressing that some who "suffer" from it have "participated in nationwide political and social unrest, even trying to assassinate President Trump twice."
During the roundtable, Trump and his surrogates compared Antifa to major gangs and drug cartels they've attacked with the U.S. military. Trump said members of Antifa “have been very threatening to people, but we’re going to be very threatening to them, far more threatening to them than they ever were with us.”
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Rosie O'Donnell Opens Up About Infamous Clash With Elisabeth Hasselbeck On 'The View'—And Why She Thinks It Was A 'Setup'
Oct 10, 2025
It was one of the most viral moments of the 2000s before that term even existed: The now infamous 2007 on-air shouting match between Rosie O'Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck on The View.
The pair had been hired for the panel for their outspokenly opposing political viewpoints. And in May of 2007, that opposition came to verbal blows over the Iraq War.
The debate erupted into a nasty on-air feud that O'Donnell recently told the hosts of the Australian podcast Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel she believes was a "set-up" for ratings.
@rickileetimjoel “It was a set up”. 👀 #RosieODonnell #ElisabethHasselbeck #TheView #RTJ
These days liberals and conservatives alike are mostly on the same page that the Iraq War was a colossal mistake and a shameful error, but that was definitely not the consensus at the time.
And in May 2007 the long simmering disagreements between Republican Hasselbeck and Democrat O'Donnell finally boiled over.
What began as a debate on the merits of the war quickly became nasty, with Hasselbeck essentially accusing O'Donnell of being unpatriotic and treasonous for not supporting the war and then-President Bush.
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At the time, at least, it was The View's standard operating procedure to not allow discussions to become so nasty. But in this case, producers decided to let it ride, even cutting to a split-screen so viewers could watch the two women go at each other.
It caused a firestorm that placed O'Donnell directly in the line of fire of every conservative commentator on TV, and precipitated her early departure from The View.
And now, O'Donnell says she is convinced The View producers did it on purpose. She told the podcast hosts:
"You know our producer is not an on-the-fly kind of guy, he wasn’t mister like, ‘Let’s go to the split-screen.’ That was prepared. So, the whole thing, I think, was a setup."
She added that the blow-up with Hasselbeck was only the peak of a long-standing pattern of the show's main producer trying to inject as much GOP propaganda into the show as possible.
She explained:
"The producer was a man on the #1 women’s voices show, Bill Geddie."
"He was not a great guy, if you ask me. He would give Elisabeth Hasselbeck the Republican talking points every day before the show started."
But almost worse, O'Donnell said, was the betrayal the fight constituted on the part of Hasselbeck, with whom O'Donnell had strained to create a generous and friendly working relationship.
"When I took that job [on ‘The View’], I made one commitment to myself, that I was not going to be her enemy. That I was going to meet her as a person."
"And so, she came to my house, she swam in my pool, she brought her little kid. I took her kid to see Sesame Street Live. I took her to her first Broadway opening."
"I bent over backwards for this woman, and here she was coming at me on national TV about whether or not I was patriotic."
On social media, people were firmly on O'Donnell's side.
As for Hasselbeck, she took to Instagram to respond to O'Donnell's comments in the way conservative women do best: Crying on-camera while calling O'Donnell—whom she accused in 2019 of being sexually obsessed with her—a liar and implying she's mentally ill.
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