hey ween..i updated today again in the thread..not up to repeating...basically one small step forward and about 6 back.
I dont think he is going to make it out this time, i really dont...
wanna talk more about how you are feeling? Are you up to explaining? Either here, PM, or email?
loves
xxx
Katkin...do you want to say more? Or not just yet?
You are very welcome here...
hope you are as ok as can be
I've a question for you here as it's not worthy of an entire thread on its own and well younger people's experiences really aren't relevant in this case.
Basically my psychologist wants me to do some sessions where I bring my mum and dad in with me. Now apart from the logistical difficulties of this (them living a 2 hour journey away,working during the week and hating each other's guts!), well it just seems a bit odd. I was wondering if anyone here has had experience of taking their parents in to therapy with them as an adult? I'm a bit apprehensive about it as it may well scare them to death (as in "Oh god she's so crazy she can't take care of herself which is why we've been invited") and well I don't want them to get overprotective of me.
Hmm. Well, I take my parents with me every session, the internalisations of them that is! Hmm. And as it goes, my relationship with my parents is indeed developing and much more healthy.
Did she explain exactly why, Heidi?
Sorry Heidi, never had that experience...
What does your psych want out of the combined appt? It might help to know if it is for him/her to share info of how you are atm, to see how you interact as a family, how they relate to each other and your reactions....etc. etc.
Maybe if you knew more in detail the reasoning it would help?
Sorry if that was useless....
(personally? I would never agree to it)
I had the afternoon off work today. Went to Borders [I bought a book. Shh!] I had planned to do so much this afternoon, but my body had other ideas and I've been asleep!
Sometimes I feel such a failure because I don't have loads of As at O'level [GCSEs weren't introduced until a few years after I was 16], and only have 2 A levels, only one of which was an A.
And yet I have a 2:1 degree [which is partly in the subject I only got a D for at A level], and have proved myself capable of producing work at a post-graduate level.
I can understand being disappointed with results, but remember..you got where you wanted to go...doesn't matter if the route wasn't as planned, you still arrived.
xx
Acceptance can become stagnation, and it is hard sometimes to know the difference, I agree, Irene.
Yeah. I know. When I'm ready. I definitely still want to do psychotherapy training properly at some point in the future. I'm more than intellectually capable of it, 'just' need more work on my emotional boundaries and confidence.
I hope you can continue with it, Katie. I believe you would be a treasure of a therapist.
I understand what you mean, Irene.
I *thought* my job was it for me. I would have been perfectly happy to remain there; plenty of advancement, excellent pay, great ppl...
But, it went to hell...
Now...what the hell do I do??
Is this it??
*Has hot chocolate*
Isn't it amazing how much more human one can feel as soon as one's period comes on! Mine came on midday ish and I'm so much more 'me' again. Will have to talk about this with my homeopath on Monday *cringes a little, because he's a man.*
I don't think there's ever an 'is this it'... because life is always moving, even if we're physically in the same place.
