Wednesday, July 05, 2006

missile launches

went to therapy today. not sure what i want to do. my therapist seems to think that i should have as a goal to move back to the bay area. but i don't know if it's a realistic goal. i don't think i can afford it. maybe someday i will be able to but not in the near future. so for homework she told me to make a list of my short-term goals for the next month. i suppose i can do that. it seems like a hard thing to do. after therapy i was thinking of going to the gym, but instead i drove over there and kept on driving. i just didn't feel like going. it is one of those things i have to force myself to do. today i didn't feel like fighting. the missile launches in n. korea are upsetting. i feel like i should be working on my writing. i think as one of my goals i should finish a chapter of my novel or complete a draft of a short story. another goal should be go to the gym at least once a week. take my meds as prescribed. go to therapy. build mastery by applying for jobs, or if i get the county job, by going to work and not quitting. figure out what i want to accomplish in therapy and what i want to do with my life. i think figuring out what i want to do with my life is a big thing. i don't think i can do it in a month. but how about work on figuring out what i want to do with my life. i should do more writing. i don't think my therapist understands dbt. i don't know how i feel about my therapist. dissatisfied maybe. i guess i just don't feel real connected to her yet. i don't feel connected with any of my providers here in the area. especially my psychiatrist. i don't know if i should look for another therapist. the fact that i'm even thinking of it makes me wonder. i'm so damn indecisive. i've been thinking of cutting a lot. i feel like cutting, but i don't do it. i guess that's a good thing. sometimes i wonder if i really want to get better. i must be unhappy with my life. i must want something to change since i'm in therapy and getting medication. i must want to get better, feel better. i must want to be helped. or i'm looking for someone to rescue me. maybe i just want someone to talk to.

1 comments:

ECLIPSE said...

It sounds like you're doing OK ... you're setting yourself some positive everyday goals. Maybe if you just let things unfold with the therapy it will be OK ... and if you're really uncomfortable with it you can always try sessions with someone else, like you've considered. Working out what to do with your life might be putting quite a bit of pressure on yourself ... I don't know that anyone really knows what they're doing or where they're going and things don't always work out according to plan, anyway. Just working on surviving, improving and moving forward towards some nominated direction is doing really well, I'd say.

:-)