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4 years studying psychology through pandemics, wars, terrorism, earthquakes, family abuse, zombie apocalypse and an alien invasion to recieve full A on my final exam and a handshake from the head of the psychology department of the second best university in Bulgaria just for my grandmother to tell me anxiety and depression aren't real and I'm just weak. Just for my therapist to laugh at me when i told her i started therapist training (expecting her to be proud i am not staying on my planet and actually making steps) in the Positive psychotherapy current. I can't afford mentally and financially to go to the capital city just because she told me to study CBT not PT. She said i have fear of being dismissed and dismissed me, said i have a fear of being abandoned (which i pre-formulated of fear i will die on the street as a dog, broke and hungry if dad stops my child support and i don't succeed at psychology) and told me i might not be a good psychologist if i listen to what people tell me instead of to her. We did EMDR i just felt hungry and sleepy maybe because i was hungry and sleepy. Now im hungry, sleepy and angry. And don't hit me with the "why you go to her" and "this isn't proffesional". Apparently Bulgaria has worse pscychologists than Africa. Not joking, i have a friend who's a gay-bisexual boy from Africa and he understands all this is crazy. But i have been going to therapists since i was 14, now im about to turn 23, no better therapist than her. I have no body count but i have a serious therapist count. And starting over again, telling a new person all of my bullshit, because i don't have a trauma, a have a 10-tome-memoir of trauma, each thick as War and Peace, i will go broke and nerve-less. And my grandma. "The priest's daughter is your age. She's working (you're not). She's working so much , since little she has been helping in the farm.". Well, with her size and her intelligence, i guess the cows see her as a friend. How can she be comparing us? That girl is the typical balkan battle orc (like my previous roommate) who is undestroyable. She's basically invincible. They use them as tanks in Ukraine. Such balkan creatures, you can't stop even with a machine gun. Don't get me wrong, i weight a lot, my two best friends (both of which that abandoned me for their boyfriends) have EDs and im a huge advocate. But the thing is the priest's daughter and mu ex rommate's confidence is sky high. I might be weak, i might be pathetic, call me anything, but i am intelligent. And i know the higher the intelligence is, the harder is to function (especially in East Europe wich looks more like Warcraft rn). The units with higher intelligence are more vulnerable to anxiety and depression. Lmao, apparently intelligence is a disability. Because i can't work. Idk why my grandmother ( and mother when she's councious) are so concerned about me working when dad's paying for me. And okay compare me, an anxious, depressed, suffering from c-ptsd psychology graduate, to the priest's invincible daughter but dare to compare my sister to the priest's other and it's like that verse in Falling in Reverse's Popular monster "okay mf, now u got my attention". Like my sister draws on paper, digital and on glass and gets less respect than Van Gogh alive but the priest's daughter draw an earthquake (caused by her older sister sneezing :) ) and she's the big deal, winning a prize. You can be a genius but unless you have a prize, ur a failure. East European parents are pretty much like Asian parents but asian parents would be proud of me (straight A doctor) while balkan parents just traumatize u for their own sake. East just wake up and chose violence. Look at Putin. We're not in Europe, we're in Gondor. Mordor. But seeing what is going on in America, kinda scared to move and west Europe is expensive. If i wasn't tanky myself and too old (22), i would go to Korea to be the first white kpop rapper and dancer. My visuals and vocals are weak, grandpa has been telling me since i was 5 and I wanted to be a ballerina and a model. And okay so you can insult me but if you insult sis , now you have a problem. My sister does art, plays bass guitar, studies biochemistry while our parents share nothing but a braincell. And then they say our generation is messed. In 90s and 2000s movies the teens were getting drunk and pregnant. What did my parents did in '99?- Got drunk and pregnant. What did my parents did in 2020- one drunk, other making a baby. It's not the age, it's the generation. I'm 22 and all i talk about is mental health and orcs. Ik i describe it comedic but im bout to pull out a Harley Quinn being a psychologist going psycho without ologist. And communist boomers. They just don't understand im mentally ill until i really pull out a Harley Quinn. I'm furious rn. They be like "ur generation is so weak". Yeah, i guess we raised ourselves, we made ourselves. "Democracy ruined everything". Yeah, I'm born in 2000 but at 1989 i personally putted the end of communism. The fall of the Berlin wall? My work. I did it myself 11 years before being born because i would really enjoy brainwashed elderly screaming at me at the bus for being "brainwashed by technology" while job recruiters expect me to be coding programs in Java Script, Python, Anaconda, Black mamba and all kinds of computer languages named after snakes, while coding AI and speaking Croatian and Cantonese.

The next time a grandparent tells me depression and anxiety aren't real, i will eat my diploma. The next time i hear "you're mentally ill, how can u be a therapist", i will eat my diploma. Which btw i will recieve may 2024 for idk whose's sake reason but i suspect communist graduation celebrations. The next time i hear im pathetic, weak, worthless, a burden and good for nothing, i will eat my diploma.

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SoporRose

Sounds as if you will need several copies of your diploma to eat. I suggest pouring some chocolate sauce on it to make it more palatable.

It breaks my heart that all these people in your life aren't popping champagne for your outstanding achievement. Your folks should be bursting with pride and bragging about you to everyone they meet.

Especially now that we know you managed to bring about the fall of Western Civilization all by yourself — before you were born! I knew you were talented, but I hadn't realized you were a time traveller. That is a real gift.

I do like it when you get snarky and funny: "i just felt hungry and sleepy maybe because i was hungry and sleepy. Now im hungry, sleepy and angry"; "pandemics, wars, terrorism, earthquakes, family abuse, zombie apocalypse and an alien invasion"; "I have no body count but i have a serious therapist count." And I love all your allusions; they show what a breadth of knowledge you have acquired and that you have a prodigious memory and ability to recall what you know, which is why you Aced your test! (💃🏻🕺💃🏾🕺🏿💃🏼🕺🎈🎊🎉) And I love how fiercely protective you are of your sister, too.

I understand why switching therapists might not be possible, but may I ask if going to therapy helps you at all? Or is it causing you more harm than it's worth? You never tell us that talking with your therapist has done anything more than make you feel worse. I know you need the psychiatrist to get your medications, but the psychologist? Can you help us understand why you keep seeing her?

I hope you don't have eat any of your diploma nor go Harley Quinn on anyone.

Ruth

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Against_the_current in reply to SoporRose

Ah i see my sence of humour is contagious. Thank you for being proud of me and for pointing out things you like in me. I really need that. And thank you that you care. Regarding my therapist. I tried to stop her, i see her like once a month but it gets even worse when i don't. At least i channel these emotions instead of eating myself on the inside (like my stomach does with this damn acid reflux) and i was too fatigued and numb to find a way. I couldn't even write about it and writing helps me so much. This helps

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SoporRose in reply to Against_the_current

That makes sense about why you keep seeing your therapist. She's better than nothing.You are getting some relief out of it, then. Good.

Your humour suits my sense of the absurd perfectly. I could see you doing stand-up comedy some day, maybe by starting out writing for other comics. That shiny new psych degree you just earned (🎉🎈🎊🌠) would probably help.

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Against_the_current in reply to SoporRose

Thank you. Yeah, i think the jobs im made are a stand up comedian and a writer. I got a psych degree because i needed some stability and university benefits and time. Wondering where the tides will get me. I have an imaginary audience in my head and i don't stop telling them such humorous stories

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SoporRose in reply to Against_the_current

That's great! Keep talking to them. Feed your creativity!

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Marysblue

I love Positive Psych..I say Do What You Love.

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Against_the_current in reply to Marysblue

Thanks! Feels good to hear that someone else knows it and likes it

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Mohammad-341

congratulations

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Against_the_current in reply to Mohammad-341

Thank you

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Mohammad-341

lot of good wishes and i am sure you are going to be a great professional

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Against_the_current in reply to Mohammad-341

Thank you

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Mohammad-341 in reply to Against_the_current

You are Most deserving, Wc

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RMHiker

I enjoyed your sense of humor. You're obviously quite intelligent 😊 Congratulations on your final exam 👍Maybe all that you've been through will actually make you a better therapist. Compassion is a wonderful thing.

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Against_the_current in reply to RMHiker

Yeah, glad you think so! Thanks

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LoveforAll41

I am sorry that you have to go through all of this Against. I know here in the US a lot of mental health professionals have had issues, it just makes them able to empathize. I wish you the strength to be able to do whatever you need to to take advantage of your degree. I am very proud of you, I am still working on getting one having not finished school 14 years ago when I first enrolled and dropped out due to depression and anxiety. Let us lead the assault on Barad-dûr!

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Against_the_current in reply to LoveforAll41

Great reference! We can do it!

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CL3V3R-G1RL

To be fair a lot of Batman's villains have PhDs and it makes sense. Have you seen the job market? 😂 You either die the hero or live long enough to earn your PhD & turn into a villain.

Dr. Harleen Quinnzel aka Harley Quinn

Dr. Jonathan Crane aka Scarecrow.

Dr. Thomas Elliott aka Hush

Dr. Pamela Isley aka Poison Ivy

Dr. Victor Fries aka Mr. Freeze

Dr. Hugo Strange

Just to name a few 😂

It's not uncommon to be high intelligent and have mental health issues. In fact they kind of run side by side. I guess it's because we know and we see more than the average person. So like a movie the characters (average people) don't know what is going to happen next. We however both the view and character in the film, already know what is going to happen in the next scene and we begrudgingly go into the next scene. Not surprised by the outcome.

Anyways I say do what you want to do. Don't let anybody stop you. To quote a movie line "If you have a dream, go get it. Don't let anybody stop you." Not even your parents, grandparents etc. Go get your dream. Study what you want to study!

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Against_the_current in reply to CL3V3R-G1RL

Absolutely! Intelligent people have to deal with so much bs that they eventually turn into the evil genius. It's really hard for us. At least im happy Ivy and Harley got toghether and are finally happy and as healthy as a mentally ill ppl can be but much healthier than when she dated the Joker

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CL3V3R-G1RL in reply to Against_the_current

Yes! Even Joker embracing his step father role. We can be so much more. ❤️🫂

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