Posted by sigismund on February 11, 2011, at 21:51:52
In reply to Depressed, posted by Annabelle Smith on February 11, 2011, at 21:16:02
I suppose you call this depression?
Anguish is the word I'd use.
I feel terrible saying it, but why do you have such hopes from your therapy and your therapist?
Or to put it differently, is the hope you have of therapy and your therapist somehow related to the anguish you feel in between.
I'm trying to think back to how I felt before I started therapy when I was 18 or so. I needed to think this society had the equivalent of soul doctors (big mistake), I felt something lacking in every artificial encounter of my social life, I didn't know how to orient myself and I didn't know what I wanted to be or what I could be. Looking back it is not such a mystery why this was so.
You don't have to take meds for the rest of your life, you don't have to take them in high doses, and you can be careful about what you take.
So you need to feel known? Have you said that, or did I assume it?
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