what phase II looks like
and its not necessarily pretty.
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After denial comes this period of time when you think the shrink will make you better. You can sit in your cage of depression and he will magically open the door and you waltz into to the wonderful world of normies.
Me thinks our cages are of our own making too.
Early Phase II is thinking he will do the hard work. Slowly, you see that the depression cage actually has bars wide enough to walk through.
Or crawl.
For the 200th time he tells you that no doctor and certainly no meds can cure you just like that. It’s a process and it’s work.
For the 500th time you tell yourself you’ve never done anything right enough in your life. So if you’re starting to have some okay moments, he must be the magician, not you.
and all the phone booths are gone.
When you haven’t heard anything sane for a long time – because you’ve only been hearing the depression – and the Doc says something simple, clear and obvious…
Well, he starts looking like he’s faster than a speeding illness.
