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I'm not willing to become a therapist until I have dealt with my own problems, but I would like to do it. Part of what I want to accomplish is to learn what holds me back from achieving my goals, both personal and professional. I don't feel capable of being a therapist right now and I think the worry of hurting my patients more than helping, in the case of a major depressive episode or work. One of the professionals I have worked with says that another therapist could take over my caseload if necessary, but I wouldn't want to let anyone down. Which, according to just my intake interview, is a major theme in my life.
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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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