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I booked 4 appointments in April and I am seeing her this Thursday. I am uncertain and uncomfortable. Since part of what we are working on is what career I wish to pursue, I intend to ask her whether or not she thinks I can become a psychologist (presuming I get the needed education) with adequate psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. That way I will know what she thinks as opposed to believing I know what she thinks (a cognitive distortion).
I need to know she supports me in reaching my goals in all areas of my life before I can risk the psychotherapy. I want to reach my limits and then expand them and I want to overcome obstacles then avoid them. I want help doing so and I need to trust her to provide that and she needs to be worthy of that trust.
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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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