Posted by alexandra_k on November 22, 2005, at 15:26:44
In reply to I went for an assessment..., posted by cubic_me on November 22, 2005, at 6:04:46
cubic_me!!!
:-)Nice to see you here...
Ugh. I hate assessments and I hate waiting lists too. And what I tend to hate even more... Is being assigned to someone who isn't so suitable :-( Still... I should say that I have had some pretty terrific therapists who were assigned to me, so I really hope you get someone who you fit well with.
I remember a thread you posted a while ago... I couldn't think of anything to say at the time... But something occured to me since then...
I think I remember hearing / reading somewhere... That it is common / fairly normal to be afraid of death when doing medicine. Because... You are confronted with dying / dead people. And so that kind of confronts one with ones own mortality.
I thought about medicine... But I'm more an arts / social science person than a science person (which has rather too much math in it for my liking). But dissections etc... I was a little worried about those... Whether I would be okay with that or not. I kind of figured... That after studying anatomy for a while it would be interesting and loose its 'ew yuk' response. I'm always amazed at how blaze my GP is over handling my urine samples. I mean, yeah it is in a sealed plastic container but I feel grossed out giving it to her. Its still warm through the plastic! But I guess... If you think about all the information in the sample then it seems more interesting than yuk. And I guess I'd love to dissect a brain after having studied neuro-anatomy and struggling a little to turn the 2d representation in the text into a 3d picture in my head...
Anyway... I just wanted to say that I've heard that what you were talking about is fairly typical. If that helps a little...
> to start therapy again. When I finished group last April I didn't go back to individual therapy, but a month or so back things started getting bad agian so I went back to my old T for some advice. She said I need long term therapy, which she can't offer as she is retiring next year so said to try a government supported therapy service with low fees (I'm a student).
> I wish I had enough money to choose my own therapist!
Yeah, I hear you.
Still, I hope you get someone really terrific :-)
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