Dear Gemini,
Think of this as your grandmother (me) telling you, sweetie, it runs in our family!
I've been in therapy lots of times, and it helped me, but I didn't discuss these ideas with my therapists. When I was young my mom was locked up and given electric shock treatments, and I had another female relative to whom more terrible things were done. I grew up understanding I had to be careful what I told to whom. I am now married for the third time, and I finally realized that one of the conditions of my being in a relationship needs to be that my mate knows all about my beliefs and even agrees with many of them.
I got a degree in counseling but after seven years stopped working in the field because I did not believe in the "science" of "psychotherapy." However, I do still believe that therapy can be very helpful with the right person. Also there are now many therapists who "cross over" into our belief system with varying degrees of openness.
Be careful of therapists who want to put you on drug treatments. Just know what you are getting into. You can relieve your pain to some extent with these meds, but, as Ra said, they are not really conducive to making progress on a "spiritual" path. (There's nothing wrong with taking drugs if you so choose - just understand that it's not a path to certain kinds of growth in consciousness. I'm trying to say this in a non-judgmental way.)
Luv ya - thanks for being a friend.
PS - I'm worried about hurting people with my comments about drugs. There is a sense in which everything we ingest, including our food, is a drug and affects our consciousness, so it's not really a completely cut and dried topic.
Think of this as your grandmother (me) telling you, sweetie, it runs in our family!
I've been in therapy lots of times, and it helped me, but I didn't discuss these ideas with my therapists. When I was young my mom was locked up and given electric shock treatments, and I had another female relative to whom more terrible things were done. I grew up understanding I had to be careful what I told to whom. I am now married for the third time, and I finally realized that one of the conditions of my being in a relationship needs to be that my mate knows all about my beliefs and even agrees with many of them.
I got a degree in counseling but after seven years stopped working in the field because I did not believe in the "science" of "psychotherapy." However, I do still believe that therapy can be very helpful with the right person. Also there are now many therapists who "cross over" into our belief system with varying degrees of openness.
Be careful of therapists who want to put you on drug treatments. Just know what you are getting into. You can relieve your pain to some extent with these meds, but, as Ra said, they are not really conducive to making progress on a "spiritual" path. (There's nothing wrong with taking drugs if you so choose - just understand that it's not a path to certain kinds of growth in consciousness. I'm trying to say this in a non-judgmental way.)
Luv ya - thanks for being a friend.
PS - I'm worried about hurting people with my comments about drugs. There is a sense in which everything we ingest, including our food, is a drug and affects our consciousness, so it's not really a completely cut and dried topic.
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