and yes it's going to hurt

[cimorene]

I am feeling so very emotionally healthy right now that when I talk to my therapist, it's mostly about:

1. The other people in my life that I'm worried about, and recapping my mental processes wrt how I can help them (the dog being sick, my sister transferring to Tulane even though it costs like 50k, my wife being unemployed and depressed)



2. The fact that school is boring and frustrating and my day-to-day struggles to cope with my frustration without getting either unreasonably angry or slightly insane



3. My persistent writer's block that has been persisting for like YEARS now

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It does seem a bit unfair to agonize over writer's block to a therapist, right? It's not just me? I mean, he doesn't complain about it and he actually occasionally tries to make suggestions (potentially useful albeit not particularly original, like free writing and how you can think about it to try to remove the performance anxiety), but without any experience of being a self-absorbed frustrated creative ~artiste~ - or perhaps I'm underestimating the value of basic human empathy or something.

Possibly I'm just feeling guilty because I'm starting to feel like I might be doing too well to actually need to see a therapist. I guess he does have time in his schedule since he doesn't seem to have any trouble fitting me in, though, in spite of the advertised lack of mental health professionals in the city.

Comments

[james]

Could you start seeing him half as often? I did this when I was weaning myself off therapy - go from once a week to once every other week.

[cimorene]

Yep! We are going to start doing that this month in fact, so he probably thinks the same.