Rob – You can’t look to the stars if you’re in such a deep hole that you can’t even see the horizon. Self-help rarely works – even Freud sought external therapy.
you actually might be right. Same story with Israelis. You kind of grow up on that. In 1st grade, we learned the safety precautions and how to hide under desks and basements in case of an attack. We had a shooting target class at 9 years old (2nd grade) and I learned how to hold a Kalashnikov properly and shoot a gun. I left at 11 but in 4th-6th grade you learned how to take apart a gun and clean it and put it back together in a specific period of time. Not everyone went to the army but everyone knew how to hold a gun and pretty much defend themselves by teenage years.
Most of my fight training I had here. I did a little bit of wrestling, self-defense and jujitsu training but mostly easy sparring since I couldn’t get into rings with real fighters and risk coming into corporate job with a busted face once a week. People would automatically think I got into fights every weekend and I didn’t want to risk that so I stopped.
im pretty sure i’d be the same ole me wandering around the streets pushing a shopping cart. it just sorta sucks to have to think about those kinds of things you know?
honestly, im a little leery of therapists for the fact that i understand my problems and really don’t think it’s worth the money, for now anyway.
i know it’s lame, but since i have a degree in psychology anyway and watch lots of tv shows about such things, i am capable of understanding myself. i know that might fly in the face of what some people believe, and i know therapy is very important for some people. but for me, i think it would complicate things and not really get anywhere, but i could be wrong. it’s also very very very difficult to find a good match when it comes to patient/therapist. probably about 80-90 percent of therapy isnt productive.
Rob – I thought you’d decided to see a therapist when you were feeling down a couple of weeks ago. Real life does have downers but there’s a lot to be enjoyed too. These periodic lows of yours are valid but it sounds as if you have an existential angst that could benefit by treatment. As I recall, several PLUSAs had ideas of places you could go for help.
I have to laugh – I got halfway through the second paragraph and knew it would be a Rob post.
Rob – You can’t look to the stars if you’re in such a deep hole that you can’t even see the horizon. Self-help rarely works – even Freud sought external therapy.
Biff,
you actually might be right. Same story with Israelis. You kind of grow up on that. In 1st grade, we learned the safety precautions and how to hide under desks and basements in case of an attack. We had a shooting target class at 9 years old (2nd grade) and I learned how to hold a Kalashnikov properly and shoot a gun. I left at 11 but in 4th-6th grade you learned how to take apart a gun and clean it and put it back together in a specific period of time. Not everyone went to the army but everyone knew how to hold a gun and pretty much defend themselves by teenage years.
Most of my fight training I had here. I did a little bit of wrestling, self-defense and jujitsu training but mostly easy sparring since I couldn’t get into rings with real fighters and risk coming into corporate job with a busted face once a week. People would automatically think I got into fights every weekend and I didn’t want to risk that so I stopped.
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amazingly resilient
oh totally. it’s the aquarius in me.
im pretty sure i’d be the same ole me wandering around the streets pushing a shopping cart. it just sorta sucks to have to think about those kinds of things you know?
honestly, im a little leery of therapists for the fact that i understand my problems and really don’t think it’s worth the money, for now anyway.
i know it’s lame, but since i have a degree in psychology anyway and watch lots of tv shows about such things, i am capable of understanding myself. i know that might fly in the face of what some people believe, and i know therapy is very important for some people. but for me, i think it would complicate things and not really get anywhere, but i could be wrong. it’s also very very very difficult to find a good match when it comes to patient/therapist. probably about 80-90 percent of therapy isnt productive.
*rob*
I agree Kens. This type of blanket statement without any background or support is just going to lessen her credibility….
“Also, the economy will get worse, so enjoy things as they are now. Cherish the memories you create in these next few years.
Posted by: Alitheia at July 28, 2009 9:41 AM”
I suggest you look at the rate of change of the economic indicators. The majority of them have a positive second derivative.
EVEN HOME PRICES WERE UP MONTH ON MONTH IN MAY!!!!
No, we are certainly NOT out of the woods yet.
Rob – I thought you’d decided to see a therapist when you were feeling down a couple of weeks ago. Real life does have downers but there’s a lot to be enjoyed too. These periodic lows of yours are valid but it sounds as if you have an existential angst that could benefit by treatment. As I recall, several PLUSAs had ideas of places you could go for help.
“Speaking Russian makes a man’s fists that much harder.”
Alitheia, if that’s true, I want to know the language that, when spoken, will make my other parts hard.
Speaking Russian makes a man’s fists that much harder.
knew = new. sorry for the spelling, too early in the morning