I am currently taking a class called Abnormal Psychology and so far it's been a wonderful class. Now, though, the class was assigned to read a book (we had to pick from a list of books) and write a one page response to it. I thought it would be easy seeing as how it was in my genre of interest.

At first I couldn't put it down. It was amazing and well-written. But then as the book went on, I kept getting depressed and memories were flooding over me. I also got extremely discouraged because the therapist in the book is a great therapist, and I couldn't imagine ever being that good. (I'm studying to become a psychologist.)

Now I'm stuck. I haven't even read half of the book and there's a one page response due tomorrow. I don't know if I should talk to the teacher about what's happening to me, or just try and continue, but it's so hard. I can't read for more than ten minutes without feeling like absolute crap.