Counselling
The new counsellor is nice and he means well. I'm trying to be as open-minded and optimistic as possible, which doesn't come naturally. But yeah.
He's a bit too nice, though. He doesn't want to upset me. If I start crying, he changes the subject. Which is a very sweet and admirable approach to life in general, but kind of a non-starter for counselling the chronically depressed. I need to break him of it. I need to get across to him that this is going to upset me, that there is no way around that, and kind of the whole point is to make me talk about stuff I don't want to talk about.
Bless him. I didn't agree to counselling thinking it would be pleasant. I agreed to it thinking I would hate it but it might be worth it in the long term.
I guess it's nice, though, to have a mental health person who a) acknowledges the possibility that he could be upsetting me (he's not, really - my own brainfail upsets me) and b) wants to stop doing that. I do appreciate it.
He's a bit too nice, though. He doesn't want to upset me. If I start crying, he changes the subject. Which is a very sweet and admirable approach to life in general, but kind of a non-starter for counselling the chronically depressed. I need to break him of it. I need to get across to him that this is going to upset me, that there is no way around that, and kind of the whole point is to make me talk about stuff I don't want to talk about.
Bless him. I didn't agree to counselling thinking it would be pleasant. I agreed to it thinking I would hate it but it might be worth it in the long term.
I guess it's nice, though, to have a mental health person who a) acknowledges the possibility that he could be upsetting me (he's not, really - my own brainfail upsets me) and b) wants to stop doing that. I do appreciate it.