Posted by shortelise on July 26, 2004, at 1:24:55
In reply to Termination, posted by Susan47 on July 25, 2004, at 11:05:47
Thirty years ago I saw a psychiatrist several times a week for about a year and a half. I quit therapy and moved on (Alas! Would that I'd had the ability to work things out at that young age. How different my life would have been.)
Anyway, a couple of years later when I was living abroad, I wrote to him. We've been exchanging letters from time to time ever since and we've never met again, nor are our letters ever very personal. I am not an important person in his life, nor is he in mine, but there is a continuity I find comforting.
He is a man I could not "be friends" with, nor do I think I'd ever see him as a therapist. But this contact is beneficial in some way. It's ... nice.
Shorte
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