Anthony,
Do you really think that therapy training entails "writing essays on [readings] and conforming to some professor's own personal style"? You seem to have some issues with academia. Your minimizing professional training sounds defensive and dismissive. The angry tone of the rest of your...
OMG...funny you should post this...I have been clenching my jaw without knowing it a lot this past week! A dentist recommended a nightguard to me years ago, but I never went for it...
One of my numbing strategies has always been smoking and drinking...god I love it, and I still fall into it...like yesterday!
I did not learn this at home at all. My parents were straight arrows who never drank or smoked. They did not even swear.
I cuss like a sailor when I am away from work...
Okay, I have backed off the booze and cigarettes for the most part as I try to make some progress in my therapy and in my life. If I give up caffeine, though, I worry that I may not be able to get through a day at work.
Do you use caffeine? Do you abuse it? Do you avoid it? Has it been an...
Yeah, I tell my doc when I have suicidal thoughts.
I am paying the doc to treat the real me. If I don't tell the truth, what's the point?
Anthony is right. Being straight with the T leads to progress. Omitting stuff and dodging the truth just prolongs the process.
And if there is one thing...
Anthony,
My T is really impressed sometimes with the insights I have picked up thanks to this forum, and I know this has been both a refuge and a kick in the a$$ to me at critical times. I am so freakin' lucky to have found this resource, and I look forward to graduating from it. In the mean...
I want to run RIGHT NOW. But I have a friend who is in bad shape, and looking out for him is keeping me anchored for now. Funny how I care for myself best when I am caring for someone else first.
p.s. I want a T with a PhD in psychology, not a psychiatrist.
Psychiatrists are lackeys of the drug companies, and they may as well decorate themselves like race cars, with stickers that read Glaxo/Klein, Mallinckrodt, Pfizer, and the names of all the other multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical...
I want a therapist who is highly trained, highly intelligent, and not afraid to tangle with me when I am loaded for bear. I've taught rhetoric and writing and some logic and philosophy, and I can be very persuasive and manipulative when I am depressed. I have to think the T is smarter than I am...
When I was a teen and even younger I self-medicated by disappearing into the woods for hours at a time, sometimes all day and even a couple times sleeping out...I grew up in the country, camping, river floating, hiking, so the outdoors have always been a refuge for me, unless there are people...