Child soldiers
Child labor
Figures of speech
"Paucity of content"
"Precision of language"
Considering firing the current counselor
She keeps missing the point
Over and over
She says "what" instead of "excuse me"
That is curt, abrupt,
Then she acts like every time she has a thought or emotion, it is the latest greatest scientific invention
And she has not prepared me to live "life"
Just "sorry" this and "unfortunate thing that happened" that
As if you could just expect "fortunate" things to happen
Everything is fortunate, neither or unfortunate
Way too dramatic
No good advice
She acts like she is awesome or something
She doesn't even know what a TI 83 or Python is
And she put "paucity of content" on the insurance form
She didn't know what the Big Five Personality traits are, or neuroplasticity
She thought "mad" is an emotion
And I had to bring a dictionary
But I should not have had to do so
What else do I have to bring, a Diagnostic statistical manual?
And I don't think she is as emotionally resilient as she acts like she is
And if she is, can she "help" me
"Can" and ""will" are two different things
And is the "help" worth 75 bucks an hour?
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it couldn't hurt to try a new counselor. if you haven't found one you like after trying several, it will be time to consider that your tendency to be hard on folks, especially yourself, is more culpable in your difficulties relating to counselors than not having found the right counselor. if you decide that no one will be great, perhaps, you can settle for okay.
folks use "mad" to mean "angry" a lot. it's common slang. i wouldn't hold that against someone.
they didn't teach us about the big five in psychiatry courses in med school. i came across it in other reading. my only "negative" of the five is introversion. how about you? i know you are conscientious.