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Jun 24, 2012, 07:17 PM
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Member Since: Jun 2012
Location: USA
Posts: 3,517
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OK, I’m not trying to pin you down but I’m a little confused. In your first post here you said that your dad didn’t believe in counseling or anything of the sort so you were trying to fix your problems on your own. It was my impression from that first post that you might like some help with your problems but you weren’t going to look for it yourself because you dad wouldn’t like it.
Have things gotten worse for you, so that your dad requested that you see the counselor? Was he a religious counselor? You said that you had convinced him that you are a rebellious young adult with pessimism issues. Again, I’m confused. Were you trying to convince him of that? Or do you just think that was the impression you gave. Do you know for sure – by something he said or maybe wrote down as a clinical impression – that that is what he thought about you?
If you are a young adult then, definitely, it is your choice about whether or not you want counseling, for what, and with whom.
The counseling center at your college sounds like a wonderful place to start. Forget the counselor that you went to because of your dad. That doesn’t count, if you went because your dad wanted you to. Do you have any idea why you are so terrified to go into the student counseling center?
That, actually, might be a good thing to talk to a counselor about, once you get in there!!! I’m serious. You wrote:
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Originally Posted by musicflows
I like being different, I just don't like the implications that come with it. I want to be alone, but I hate the loneliness. I'm frustrated, confused, and afraid to do anything about it.
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Those sound like the issues that YOU want to address. And, as a young adult, you have both the right and the responsibility to do that for yourself.
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