self-therapy
- a word derived from therapy.
Example Sentences
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The book is her story about a brilliant yet profoundly flawed parent, and her motive in telling it seems to be in part self-therapy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2023
Gavin said music became a form of self-therapy and he started playing more, with it eventually becoming his job.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2022
Acting, he allows, was an outlet for his angst, even a form of self-therapy, if only up to a point.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 7, 2016
I appreciate your column immensely and I have drafted many letters to you over the years which I have never sent — as a sort of self-therapy to verbalize my frustrations.
From Salon ● May 20, 2013
She had no money for counseling, and the government social worker didn’t help, so Showgirls!, as ridiculous as it is, has become the culmination of years of self-therapy.
From Slate ● May 13, 2013
