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Thank You Yowling Cat... for everything!

Cockney Rebel.... over the years, I've known many adopted people.
Some were quite angry with their birth moms, others were more like me.
I never realized how different I would feel about being adopted until my daughter was born.
She's the sole blood relative I know of.
It has made a difference to me knowing that.

Missdoc... I'm sorry to hear about your feelings for one so young.
I do hope that over time, though, things will change for the better.


Thanks to everyone else for your comments.... hmm... except.. I want to single out one more person...

SotiCoto!

Hey, if my poetry makes me.. what you call "Emo", so be it.
That is not a term I use nor understand at the moment, so it is wasted when used on me.
btw... I am 47 years old.

But even as old as I am... I have been continuously learning about myself.
Along with this learning, I have had to deal with emotions that I have either ignored for many, many years, or emotions that feel brand new to me.

You may think you have it all figured out for yourself and how you see other people, but it's a shame if you feel like you do.
I wonder what it is about you that compels you to write such comments about a stranger?
I wonder what it is about you that brings you to a state of disparaging a person's moment of speaking out loud about feelings they are dealing with?

ˇˇ don´t take him seriously, well maybe for an excuse, I bet SotiCoto is an adolescent himself, and these kids (not that I wasn´t 19 myself,but that makes a difference, I grew up in very eastern europe-not influenced by the new "fashion trends" ) well these kids have this fashion stream called "emo" wich means that emo people feel their life is the worst one in the world, write melancholic lyrics, cut their veins and listen to My Chemical Romance etc. I don´t wanna be this rude, but it gets on my nerves, really. Because all these things have been there ages before and you can´t just come and label someone according to some stupid new "fashion trend" for little kids. For example people cut their skin when they suffer from clinical depression or another kind of mental disorder because it helps them to ease their inner pain. And it already has had a label before these emo kids-it´s called automutilation and they can´t imagine how far it can go. OR melancholic poetry has been there also aaaaaages before and it doesn´t needed any "label". Well I must laugh about whole this emo thing, because if Charles Baudelaire or William Shakespeare existed now, they would call them EMO too..

I like that last line the most!

Thanks for writing.

btw... you're not a weirdo from what I saw in your writing.

Maybe this is just in the U.S., but I thought when someone was training to work as a therapist they had to undergo some therapy themselves?
I do not recall where I got that idea from, but it would seem a bit strange for the Psychology branch of medicine to think that practitioners of the craft would not also have some personal things they might need to work through before seeing patients.

I hope your schooling is going well.
I found that once I quit thinking of therapy as 'fixing something broken' (at least in my case), but as having the opportunity to share myself with a concerned and neutral individual, then I started feeling much better about bringing these things out of me.

Really, the last 3 years have been the most illuminating years of my life.

One of the reasons I like it here at Wrong Planet is that I can come here and open up.
Most of the time my writing is received politely and has even spurred on some pretty good conversation or debate.
Other times I have found that I get a PM or two from what I have written.
What I see others sharing with me becomes a learning experience that broadens my own view of what I am dealing with at that time.

Same as this one.

Well you´re completely right about taking supervisions (that´s how it´s called here-that part of psychotherapeutic schooling when you see a psychotherapeutist, but I guess it´s practically more concentrated on you getting the skills of how to lead the psychotherapeutic dialogue than on you as a person, but I can be wrong...) but the things aren´t that easy for me . I first have to do this medical faculty and then I will be allowed to that other course. And according to our law system, to become a doctor of medicine you must be competent by health and law too. So that practically means I can´t be dealing any mental problems in that time...

But I guess my state it´s not as bad as it used to be a few years back, people refer to me as a very strong person and I suppose I will always have to solve my problems myself not telling anyone. And most of the time I am comfortable with it, or I at least try to convince myself that I am. Thank you for the reply, though, I think I really needed it and you can´t imagine how big ease it was to me when I could read your post yesterday..