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Week 4 / Individual Counseling / 160407

1. Suicide-prevention pledge

On the question of whether I'd ever attempted suicide, which came up while doing the MMPI, I answered yes. There had been such times.

The reason I didn't go through with it? The first time I was afraid, and on the second attempt it felt like I shouldn't.

I had to write a pledge that I'd contact such-and-such a person, and this single sheet of paper was very hard for me. Writing down someone..

In the daytime I write down someone, at night I write down someone...

It wasn't my parents. And even if I'd had a girlfriend, it probably wouldn't have been her either...

It was only friends. In the end, after agonizing over that paper for 20 minutes, I wrote down a friend's name and came out. Along with the number.

2. Working through hard things

'Parents' are not that target. A girlfriend, too, mostly hasn't been that target, it seems. When I have something hard, the ones I talk to are 'friends.' It's because, whether girlfriend or parents, I don't want to see them become uncomfortable after hearing my story, I don't want to be a burden.

3. Parents?

Come to think of it, this habit formed from quite a young age. When my grandmother and grandfather were alive, I used to talk to them, but after both of them passed away, I didn't talk to anyone and just suffered inwardly. Maybe because of that, even now, though my parents would worry if I told them (because they're my parents), I don't want to talk to them. They're far from being 'a trustworthy conversation partner' for me. Friends are closer.

4. New stories

Expressing a sense of restraint through 'clothes.' Self-control, self-regulation, and so on..

5. I want to buy clothes.

I think I need to buy some clothes.

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