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With my own psychoses, SAD and feeling not good enough for anyone of my own, I try to help others.  I don‘t look at it as heroic, but as caring.

Lorrie, you asked, "How are you?" Well, I would be a liar if I said that seeing Carl in the shape he was in meant nothing to me.  It really tugged the heart strings and I really almost broght him here to my place, but common sense won out and I took him to a place that might be able to arrange the psychological and physical support he needs.

He has not spoken of how the people at his work look at this.  They would be fools to not know something was happening to him.  He can‘t explain this as a "fall down the stairs" anyone.  Not with marks that look like fingers around the neck!!!

One part of me wants to protect him and the other part of me want to just forget him.  I can‘t do either.  Talk about a cognitive disonance!!!!

I will survive.  It‘s tough, but I do have counseling that helps me.  My session is today at 10:00A. 

Just as thought for those who might be considering counseling for any reason.  Everyone thinks that it is a wonderful experience everytime and you leave feeling like a million dollars.  That is not true.  Sometimes you feel as if you have been dragged by an 18 wheeler down the street.  I don‘t always feel good.  Sometimes I feel just as down as before I went; however, that is a part of the process of healing.  We are not guaranteed a happy life by anyone but ourselves.  Anybody have thoughts on this comment?

I‘ve never been to counseling myself, but I‘ve heard Thom say the very same thing.  At times it can be a journey nothing short of horrific.

It‘s a shame we don‘t see him anymore.  I‘m sure you‘d like him.

I have been to counseling and I always left there feeling like a million dollars.  However, each person is different and the reasons you seek counseling are different.  I highly recommend counseling.

I would never discourage anyone from counseling!  It is helping me tremendously. 

I just wanted to iterate that you don‘t always have a pleasant experience at counseling.  Sometimes a little file drawer you have locked in the middle back part of your brain is opened and it is like someone tore you life apart again.

Not everyone, though, has that experience and I didn‘t mean to allude that everyone has the same experience as I. 

If someone feels good every time they come from a session, then that is wonderful!  And, I am sure there are many who do feel good everytime.

Please, folks, if you need counseling, by all means go and help yourself!  There are some really excellent therapists out there and I have one of them.  She is compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic when needed, insightful, and just a really good person who, it appears, was destined to be one of those who help people get in touch with themselves.

Hi Cowboy,  I knew exactly what you meant.  My reason for going to counseling was to feel like a million dollars when I left and she helped me do that.  People go to counsel for many reasons and some of those reasons would make you feel like you have been dragged down the street when the session is over.  I think some would have to go through that in order to heal and then be able to walk out on cloud 9.  My counselor was wonderful.  Too bad she retired.  I learned a lot from her.