Posted by Noa on January 5, 2003, at 10:00:12
In reply to Re: Self-help groups....no value to me » Phil, posted by jay on January 4, 2003, at 23:52:04
>>>I am just as much a client, just as needy, as everyone else on here, and the only way I am going to get good help is by never forgetting that. >>>>
That is the key, I think. Just go in as you, not as your professional self. Get a good reccomendation from friends for a therapist who is smart and capable and has good boundaries, etc. Then, once you are there, don't worry about whether you are smarter or he is smarter, etc. With the reassurance from the rec's you got, once you are in just try to assume he is smart enough to help you.
Look, getting into therapy is scary. I don't know if you are, but to me, you sound scared. Welcome to the club. It's normal (you know this already, I know, but it doesn't hurt to hear it again, I bet).
Like you said, beneath or behind your professional self is a human animal like the rest of us, with all of the stuff that comes with the equipment we are born with. It is great to have highly developed intellectual abilities to help mediate the power of our emotions, and this is one of the ways we are able to function well enough in life, but it doesn't mean that the emotional stuff isn't there.
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