Posted by HannahW on September 22, 2003, at 17:41:14
In reply to Re: Allison--Religion in Therapy » HannahW, posted by allisonf on September 22, 2003, at 15:44:52
OH! I only meant that those have all been my career goals at one point or another! Boy, that WOULD be remarkable if I had been all those things! Did you ever see that Mad About You episode where Jaime and her husband (can't for the life of me remember his name right now!) went on a cruise ship and told everyone a different ridiculous story about their professions? It was hysterically funny, and you thinking I really was all of those things makes me think of that! :)
Maybe instead of a sex therapy website I'll be the web developer for Dr. Ruth! :P
I didn't become an astronaut because I found out I'd have to join the Air Force. Military life is not for me! Actually, boot camp is not for me! I wanted to be a sex therapist in high school (mind you, I had very little sexual experience--except for the guy with the condom and the puke!) because I've always been fascinated by sex. I was just sure I knew everything there was to know, long before I'd ever even had sex, myself! Ah, the naivete of the teenager... It turned out I didn't even know the basic mechanics of it! <blush> Anyway, then I got to thinking that I would have to be privy to the sex life of everyone who came into my office--I couldn't discriminate. And there are definitely people whose sex lives you don't want to hear about. Eeew! But the idea still tugs on me at times. I put a year into schooling for midwifery (and never even got to the good stuff) before I realized I couldn't live a lifestyle that was so uncertain. I really like working my predictibly 8 to 5 job, and babies being born aren't good at keeping appointments!
So, here I am, in technology, which I've always been interested in. I'm taking a semester off right now because it was just too much with this depression and therapy thing going on. Hopefully I'll be much more stable and less easily overwhelmed next semester, which starts in November. My meds are finally (after 7 miserable months) getting to a level where they are helping.
The fertility drugs I took were the same ones that people who have septuplets took. A friend of mine took the lowest possible dose of a much milder (in fact, the mildest) fertility drug and had triplets! It was such an unlikely and unusual occurrance that the doctors call them natural triplets instead of fertility drug triplets.
If you're so interested in people and in psychology, then it sounds like you're choosing the right career! And if it turns out not to be right for you, at least you will have learned a lot along the way! And it's probably cheaper and less time consuming than therapy! What kind of psychologist do you plan to be, and how advanced? Social worker, masters or doctorate in psychology? Something else?
Don't you love going on dates with your husband? Being out without the kids is pure heaven. It is for me, anyway, but I know there are lots of people who would rather be with their kids.
I wonder how long before Dr. Bob asks us to take this conversation someplace else?
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