I talked to my psychiatrist about my psychologist, as well as a wack of other things, and he said that there were many other psychologists in the city and that i should be a able to get another referal. i said that wanted to talk to my school's psychiatrist because that would be free. i emailed her today and she said that her service it aimed toward a few session problems but that she does "supervise two Master's of Arts in Counseling Psychology students and [I] could meet with one of them on a regular basis." I've decided to try that. I talk with "Colin" on wednesday. I'm a little nervous because:
a) it's a new person
b) it's a student
c) it's probally a young male student, and what if he is attractive? at least with a psychiatrist my father's age i didn't have to worry about erotic transference
d) i don't know whether i would have to pay him or not, and, if so would it be covered
e) i feel bad "abandoning" my psychologist
f) therapy makes me nervous anyways
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
---"Address before the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society". Abraham Lincoln Online. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. September 30, 1859.
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