TLDR;
Disturbing stories changed my life.
I was scared to write, and I was scared of therapy, and now it’s all I want to do.
Don’t fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice - Charles Bukowski
Embarrassing truth time: I became a therapist because of The Sopranos. I wanted to be Dr. Melfi (Tony Soprano’s psychiatrist). Well, not literally, but I saw in her what I could be. Up until then, therapists were old men in moldy sweaters farting into their seat cushions, or the berating counselors at the group home where I lived at 15. I binge-watched the entire series on DVD, high out of my mind on ketamine (I had to re-watch some episodes as a result). I was sucked through the screen and into the story and I sat next to them in Melfi’s office. There’s something funny about TVs, phones, and computers mixed…