Posted by Sigismund on January 11, 2010, at 17:38:39
In reply to I used to think I was happy (trigger), posted by Verloren on January 11, 2010, at 17:01:40
>I wonder if Ill actually make it out of this better than before I went in. And how long? How long will be miserable?
I'm not sure I'm the right person to be handling this question. I did 14 years of therapy 5 days a week. I consider myself a very unhappy person, but then I would. I'm happiest when I am amusing myself and when people don't get offended by me.
I wonder if our thinking is all wrong...that we would feel better if we stopped looking inside (yes, no?). I don't think therapy is supposed to make you happy.
(What is it supposed to do? I should know. There's probably some answer around I would object to.)You know, I think the atomisation of this society and the assumptions of it, when things go wrong propel us to look inside and I don't know how much comfort there is there. A lot of people, I think, need adventures, something outside to engage with, rather than trying to figure out what is wrong with them or their thinking, but then again, you didn't say you were bored, you said you were despairing and agitated.
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