>>13305803I'm sorry you've had to endure that. I would imagine there's probably more too. Your parents sound afflicted with a common modern malaise: if we don't look at the problem, it won't fix itself, but circumstances will intervene to take it out of our hands. And now you're looking at therapy. Therapy isn't designed to fix your head. Ideally it provides you tools to fix your own head, but we've created an economy where it's not advantageous to instill within you the capabilities of using those tools effectively. They don't want you out of therapy. I'm not maligning the process; I'm in therapy myself right now, and I'm a more forceful personality than my therapist, and we've ended up buddies, which is far from ideal. The one prior to that was scared of me, so obviously that didn't work out either. Anxiety is the default setting of the attentive individual in a service-based economy. If you weren't anxious, what would you buy, or think about buying? I'm not anxious and I buy nothing. I'm a terrible investment. I'm angry, which is the worst possible condition. Not only don't I buy, I might actively cause others not to buy. Terrible. Therapy is unlikely to fix your anxiety. It might empower you to find it within yourself to manage despite the feeling though. Are you hoping to be fixed, or just reach a point where you can function?
