If I may be allowed to comment - I disagree with your (previous) therapist.
“There is a shortage in the years I'm going to live” - So?! If some weird aphasia wiped out any recollection of the first, say, fifteen years of your life - you sprang into existence full-grown, so far as you know - would you not be happier than you are now? The more so, if someone told you just what sort of experiences you do not recall ever having?!
I suppose what the therapist meant was that my issues cause me to waste year after year leading an unfulfilled life, and that maybe addressing and thinking through things will effectively mean less baggage for the rest of life...
[Rude crude words deleted] crazier than her worst patients. I've been “addressing and thinking through” what happened to me since it did - I understand it completely - and so what?! What I needed was help, not introspection - I had all of that I wanted! And I suspect you're the same.
“Time heals all wounds” - but when you factor in physical ageing, the result is a nasty double-whammy. I was getting over it, starting to lead an increasingly functional life - but by then I was nearly forty years old. Thanx. Thanx a lot. Make me eighteen again, and I could, now, probably have a perfectly normal life with everything that it should contain.
J’ai fait tant de projets qui sont restés en l’air J’ai fondé tant d’espoirs qui se sont envolés Que je reste perdu, ne sachant où aller Mes yeux cherchant le ciel mais le coeur mis en terre… Car mes amours sont mortes avant que d’exister
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If I may be allowed to comment - I disagree with your (previous) therapist.
“There is a shortage in the years I'm going to live” - So?! If some weird aphasia wiped out any recollection of the first, say, fifteen years of your life - you sprang into existence full-grown, so far as you know - would you not be happier than you are now? The more so, if someone told you just what sort of experiences you do not recall ever having?!
http://baron-waste.livejournal.com/759162.html
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life” would work a lot better if you had no baggage…
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“Time heals all wounds” - but when you factor in physical ageing, the result is a nasty double-whammy. I was getting over it, starting to lead an increasingly functional life - but by then I was nearly forty years old. Thanx. Thanx a lot. Make me eighteen again, and I could, now, probably have a perfectly normal life with everything that it should contain.
Unfortunately, that medical technology doesn't exist yet.
J’ai fait tant de projets qui sont restés en l’air
J’ai fondé tant d’espoirs qui se sont envolés
Que je reste perdu, ne sachant où aller
Mes yeux cherchant le ciel mais le coeur mis en terre…
Car mes amours sont mortes avant que d’exister ( ... )
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