For Analysts and counsellors (maybe Docs too)

by hamsterbait 4 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  hamsterbait

  I am thinking along the lines of Socialising:

  How easy is it for you to "switch off" and just enjoy the evening, without starting to think "OKAY- she is a borderline alcoholic, he's prolly gay, that one has multiple personality disorder, he is entering a psychotic episode, and SHE always starts fugueing after too much wine."

  Can you ever see your friends and fambly as just people, or do you have to make a conscious effort to switch off and enjoy yourself. Are YOU the one with the problem if you cant?

  I have a friend who is now a consultant at a mental hospital, and I cannot relax when I get together with him and his wife. I keep thinking he will put me in a straight jacket. (a nice tight TIGHT one that hurts just enough to be nice ...)

  Seriously though - how do you deal with this?

  HB
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  Night Owl

  hamsterbait,

  No offense, but all of your comments are judgements.

  Don't judge and just enjoy the company for that moment.

  Night Owl
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  Lady Lee

  My brain turns off unless someone asks me a question. Then the lights come on again

  although. . . I have been around some people who are soooooo in need of help that I want to run in the otehr direction
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  bigmouth
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  bigmouth

  HamB. I have had a lifetime of mental illness and have got to know lots of Psychologists, psychiatrists, counsellors and occupational therapists as a patient.

  Many of them have saved themselves by being in their chosen profession. Consider that. And some are just really good people with all sorts of problems. Like normal people.

  Don't panic matey. Enjoy an ale with them. They don't want to talk 'shop'.

  Cheers,

  Pete