Why Traditional Therapy Creates Identity Addicts

## Why Traditional Therapy Creates Identity Addicts Traditional therapy has a fundamental problem: it reinforces the very identity structure that's causing the suffering.

It's interior decorating in a prison cell. The cell gets more comfortable, but you're still locked in.

### The Identity Trap Most therapeutic models ask you to understand your story, process your story, reframe your story.

But they rarely ask the most liberating question of all: what if you're not your story? When therapy becomes a weekly ritual of narrating your wounds, you don't dissolve the wounds - you cement them into your identity.