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Good for you! I know we have been recommending you go to therapy for a while now and it’s great that you are continuing to go. I just hope that you stick with it and hopefully when you start to learn more about yourself, you will begin to have better relationships and trust in women.
Glad to hear it's working out. After a few years of abandonment, I'm hitting up various clinicians in the Albuquerque area. At my cranky old age, it's time to see about setting my dumpster fire of a life straight before too long.
After I confessed my therapist I cheated on my previous partners and I told her about the text messages my girlfriend caught she said I struggle with trusting my girlfriend because I'm not trustworthy myself, so I project, is a Psychological projection.
Just found out I'm a horrible human being!
Yeah, projection is common, and really obvious to people on the outside. I have the sense that once you are aware of it, and want to get better, you can more easily step outside your head and recognize when you are doing it. Self reflection and self awareness is so important, OP.
I had that same experience perhaps 5 years ago. Just last session my therapist and I agreed we would be shutting down later this year. She agrees that I have resolved all my major life issues, and that I am now fully equipped to handle any new problems with the skills that I've learned in counseling.
I just hate to shut this down. It is very addictive to have a "friend" who will help you understand your life, and a professional whose job it is to help her patients accomplish this. Another term could be "life coach."
I will surely miss her but 2018 is my graduation year, to a life where my previous issues have now all been resolved.
Just noting, I did this three times before, and all who preceded her failed. There is no shame in swapping therapists. Anybody who is not happy with their therapist should interview with a new therapist, to decide if switching may be advantageous. It took me 4 trials to find a therapist who meshed with me.
I couldn't find anything around here for at least the next, couple of weeks. But it's a new place I just found out about. And the staff all seems quite impressive according to some of the listed credentials on their site.
Figured I'd give it a go and see how well it does before I go ahead with anything else I was planning on doing. The forums could only offer so much. And from what I've learned from posting around here and with speaking to others, it's that some people tend to get tired of a ramble and shut it out.
Things like the math anxiety and general depression being brought on from failing to get those types of classes done within the past, almost two decades. That's part of what's bringing me back down again. Got to find external, non internet ways to get it under control and on the right path again before it becomes something unable to be reigned in as easy.
None of this sounds like clinical psychology. It sounds more like a 12 step program with many who have fallen on the wagon a time or two. The life coach would say, it's ok we are all human. Make sure you all set a low bar for success, than you will never be disappointed.
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