As carefully as I am writing about myself, you seem to be..somewhat the same as I am. If you need someone to talk to, you can talk to me. I'm not a therapist and I'm glad you admit you need one because I know people try doing other things whether they're good or bad to rid of stress and cope with depression rather than just telling other people what's on their mind.
Its easy to talk to an animal about it and sometimes yourself, but its not easy to talk to a person about it. I don't criticize people's thoughts and if I did, I shouldn't be. I listen slowly.
I see two therapists every week. All I can say is you're not missing much. I've been in therapy for many years, and the best therapists do is provide a sympathetic ear. The only advantage is they are required to be completely confidential, so you can tell them any kind of thing that is bothering you. You know, all those mental cobwebs, and weird things you've wondered about? All those times you thought, is this a normal reaction, or am I just being weird? Well, you can air those safely before a therapist, and most of the time you'll be told it's fine.
Therapy is mostly a sounding board for you to find and solve your own problems. A sympathetic friend willing to keep is secrets is probably better.
Hi there! Don't take this the wrong way... But do I know you? I don't mind random people coming through my journal, I'm just curious how you found me. :-P
And I actually did see a therapist on a weekly basis from the time I was 14 up until I was 20. I actually do agree with your appraisal of them for the most part. I'm a very private, reserved sort of person who doesn't make friends easily, so having someone whose job it was to listen to me was very liberating. By hearing myself say certain things out loud and having someone respond to them, I was able to mentally take myself down paths I otherwise would't have explored. I really miss that now...
LJ has a tool called LJ Aqua, which shows a cloud of blog posts as they are being published in real time. I was watching the titles float past, and yours piqued my interest.
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Its easy to talk to an animal about it and sometimes yourself, but its not easy to talk to a person about it.
I don't criticize people's thoughts and if I did, I shouldn't be. I listen slowly.
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Therapy is mostly a sounding board for you to find and solve your own problems. A sympathetic friend willing to keep is secrets is probably better.
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And I actually did see a therapist on a weekly basis from the time I was 14 up until I was 20. I actually do agree with your appraisal of them for the most part. I'm a very private, reserved sort of person who doesn't make friends easily, so having someone whose job it was to listen to me was very liberating. By hearing myself say certain things out loud and having someone respond to them, I was able to mentally take myself down paths I otherwise would't have explored. I really miss that now...
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