My Dark Night of the Soul

[3DMonkey]

I have, but in all honesty, I don't have any ambition to find a job right now. I feel like such a fool listening to my parents telling me to take that job that I got transferred to after I got laid off. My own supervisor told me to just take unemployment!

I don't know whats going to happen to me, but I'm not begging for handouts and I am not degrading myself to a service job where I'll get bitched at and made fun of, just like Wal-Mart. I'll have to give my cat to my parents because I can't feed him and my parents are remodeling their house so there is no room for me and my belongings there, and they are the last ones who want me back there. I really don't get along with my step-father so I can't go back.

The rent isn't getting paid for October so I'll get a nice eviction notice in a few weeks as well.

I don't even care anymore. I just want my cat to have a good home. He's the only thing that brought me real joy. I just don't care.....f*ck-it all.

have you checked the links i have given ?

Don't do drugs or alcohol. Please.

You will pop out of this in time. It is inevitable. You will.

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It is the idea that the therapist is not experiencing these very same things themselves whilst applying their profession for the others' benefit. 'Round and round we go, where it stops no one knows.'

Most therapists agree with you though. Most therapists do recognize that they are constantly and inescapably affected by the therapy process and by their patients. It's like the #1 challenge of the therapist to creatively manage this situation to be the best therapist they can be.

The therapist is using their own beingness as a tool to try and help others. Good therapists are keenly aware of this and their entire focus is on using their tool properly.

I'm basically saying that any therapist would absolutely have their hands full with me.... (light bulb) Anyone interesting in making a documentary to see how many therapists I could get to recommend me to someone else? 'How many therapists does it take to get to the tootsie roll center of a tootsie pop?

The job of giving therapy is to offer yourself as a tool that others can use to help themselves. The therapist is only as useful to you as you make him or her. Like any tool.

I'm sure you would be a challenging patient with challenging issues, but there are plenty of psychologists willing to hang in there with you regardless of how uncomfortable it might be for them. There is nothing wrong with a referral as long as you eventually meet up with someone who is confident and enlightened enough to understand.

hahahaha. Ask Bring4th_Monica about that

Honestly, it sounds like your issues with your mom are being projected on the entire field. So you think all therapists are going to act to like your mom, or that all therapists see you in the way you believe you mom sees you.

LOL, no, she just makes a great example of the "profession", i.e. a Masters Degree, LOL. She got it after I was a grown man, ACTUALLY accomplishing what she couldn't. ... If you only knew her....

The therapy process, if both parties are being sincere, can be extremely uncomfortable and challenging for both people, but that is part of the process. At the very least it is making some good catalyst available.

I watched the first season of The Sopranos. I know. .... Oh, and the Kevin Spacey one.. Shrink!.... Oh, yeah, Six Feet Under was a good "shrink" representation too.

How many people in the world will talk to you seriously about the Law of One, and are educated and open-minded enough to have meaningful things to say, regardless of whether they believe in it or not? Psychologists are one of the few actual professions where people spend their lives talking about stuff like this. Their entire job is to be able to help you clarify your beliefs including spiritual beliefs, while respecting your free will.

Anyway it's a shame that it has such a bad image because there are few things that are more enlightening in this world than having deep conversations about beliefs, feelings, and patterns of behaviour.

We are all therapists. All of us. Some like to think they deserve money for it... to pay off student loans, no doubt