>>30889684>he was impressed i understod what was going on and my general ability to percive issuesyeah, I heard several intelligent people report the same thing that their shrink told them (you're very lucid (clear-headed)).
Several shrinks said this to me.
Also "I don't worry for you" (because I was so good at taking responsibility, I even decided to work on a self-diagnosed case of "masochism". I started reading all the shit about "masochism", how taking pleasure in pain is actually acting like a comedian in a play designed to cause anguish to one's Father, etc. How it came from a complex of castration, and a complex of guilt...
I read about self-esteem, codepency, narcissism, and reversed narcissism, I read "imperfect, free and happy", "the narcissistic family", "the doormat syndrome", everything.
Elliot had read "The Secret" (which is to visualize a happy outcome, visualize yourself reaching your goal). Didn't work, apparently.
Might as well listen to early Eminem and 50 cent.