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Post by EdgedInBlue on Dec 7, 2003 6:03:07 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Meg and I'm from New Jersey. I've been shy all of my life and I've missed out on a large portion of my 16 years because of it. 4 years ago, my anxiety took a turn for the worst and I was so frightened, I couldn't leave my room or eat or function at all and in 2000, I was committed to Friends Hospital in Pennsylvania. The hospital therapy did nothing for me. It was the fact that I had gotten some food in my stomach (food does help...you don't have the energy to sit up if you can't eat) and the only non-clothing possessions I was permitted to keep in my room were my guitar (which I had played with such enthusiasm before I became a near-vegetable) and CD collection that got me motivated. So music became a therapy for me, especially the great blues guitarist, Rory Gallagher who was notoriously shy but a wild man onstage! Another thing that motivated me to better myself was the ineffectiveness and bitterness of my therapists who essentially told me to either "get a backbone" or "quit being so selfish". So, my anger manifested itself in my near-obsessive studying of psychology. I will make my living as a therapist one of these days and I'll be much better than my doctors Now, I'm much better, but I'm still terribly shy around people but it's a great comfort to know that there are people out there like myself Rock on! Meg
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Post by Japanese on Apr 5, 2004 15:19:49 GMT -5
Another thing that motivated me to better myself was the ineffectiveness and bitterness of my therapists who essentially told me to either "get a backbone" or "quit being so selfish". So, my anger manifested itself in my near-obsessive studying of psychology. I will make my living as a therapist one of these days and I'll be much better than my doctors I believe you will become a very good therapist, Meg. It's amazing that some "therapists" just keep imposing their faith (what they BELIVE is the right thing for you) on you, instead of what actually best works for you. I have come to realize that in many cases, best solutions to our questions or problems lie in coincidental events in life. It does not always go as if you were looking for a particular book in a library. I just wish more "therapists" realized it.
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