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Old Mar 24, 2014, 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by IndestructibleGirl View Post
I have the email open in front of me to send her it, but I keep hesitating. It just feels utterly pointless. I feel like maybe this is something beyond the remit of therapy, it's to do with acceptance and willingness to commit to being alive and creating a life for myself, but I simply can't do it. But nor can anyone else do it for me.

When we were having our bad session one of the things she said was that the unconscious part of me is hugely driven by determination to prove that I'm too much in every way - too needy, drinks too much, too everything, so that's why I go out and be the person who is 'too much'. But I can't get away from my unconscious. I think my unconscious wishes I was dead and now I am just able to hear that more clearly. Therapy can't equip me with a wholehearted committed desire to live though.
If it's pointless, you may as well send the email dear. Send it and see what happens. Therapy can't make you want to live, but it can nourish the part that does, the part that is FIGHTING hard right this second. I honor that part pushing through the hopelessness and apathy you feel, and the fear that nothing will ever be alright. You may just not see the reason you want to live yet, but it's there!

Try and think about every moment of kindness and love and compassion you've ever felt. Teachers, friends, people here, pets, whatever it may be. Love you've felt and love you've given. Try and sit with that for a while. Things can get much better.
Hugs from:
IndestructibleGirl
Thanks for this!
Aloneandafraid, IndestructibleGirl, ShaggyChic_1201