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My parents are Dutch but I was raised speaking in English.I moved to the Netherlands for college and had to go to therapy in a foreign language.Non-English.
They offered me a Dutch therapist, as this held a far shorter waiting list in the Netherlands, where English-speaking therapists were few and far between...
It got easier and easier to do therapy in Dutch, and I simply inserted English words whenever I lacked the vocabulary..
I found that doing therapy in my non-native language allowed me to throw out my script and actually be real..
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