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Life is a Tangled Web with a Twist

March 11, 2010 12:45 pm by tyswickedstepmonster in Family
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I have not posted in a while. I've been thinking.

 

I finally came to the conclusion that I needed "help."  My husband and I clung to the hope that "help" would help me stop being so angry and sad.  The appointment was set weeks in advance because the "help" I selected (by "help" I mean therapist) was very booked. 

 

The day of the appointment arrived.  I was nervous and hopeful.  I've only had one other experience with counseling (as in one single appointment) so I was not sure of what to expect.  My last experience was like a magic wand.  I was going through a divorce and the counselor asked me one question that eliminated my self pity and put me on the path to being happy again. 

 

Going into this appointment I knew it was unfair to expect that magic wand experience again.  Moments of extreme clarity in life are rare.  I think I did expect to be heard.  I expected to get some ideas on other ways to look at my situation.  I was prepared to be told I was wrong.  But mainly I expected to be heard. 

 

Unfortunately that's not what happened.  It was odd, unlike any counseling/therapy appointment I've ever heard of or dreamed up.  He talked more than I did.  He called me obsessive compulsive.  He told me about his wife. 

 

Maybe I am obsessive