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Originally Posted by hankster
Thats i think a good example of you being the expert on you. You know you are intelligent enough to succeed in graduate school - you dont need her to tell you that. She cant predict what you would do during those 2 or 3 years. Those would be your decisions, your challenges, your choices. 
About ten years ago, i was thinking of going back to graduate school and told my family. My brother told me the faculty would laugh at me. Hes a psychotherapist. You can have that response if you prefer. My t is so mad at him he could spit. |
hankster. I have severe anxiety, an overactive eating disorder and am quite literally a klepto. I'd be appalled to discover these traits in my therapist. If the eating disorder doesnt take me down, the stealing certainly will. It feels like a lot to overcome in the 1-2 years til I start seeing clients. If I'm not in jail for petty theft, that is.
These are SERIOUS concerns, and I am worried that one if not all of these and more will serve to block my aspirations, even on the offchance I do not experience a severe depressive episode and manage to make it through the coursework.
I am by no means "healed." I only went back to school bc ive been out for five years and stuck in the exact same place and felt I needed something to unstick myself, and thought that being a grad student might positively influence me to handle my anxiety another way (ie keeping my sticky fingers to myself).