Oh, couseling. There is a reason I am no longer seeing a counselor. I can't really afford it. My insurance covered some of my previous visits, but I would be incurring the costs myself at this point, roughly 100 bucks a session. I simply can't swing it.
Yeah, I used this excuse, too. The truth being that there was that there was sliding scale and free counseling available but it is so much easier to blame it on the insurance. See, that way I didn't have to accept any responsibility.
I have spoken with a church pastor who is also a marriage counselor. It helped with my spirituality and my initial sadness, but not in my core issues of anger or always resorting to the glass being half empty. I was only able to get so much out of it.
My guess is because you didn't want to. I see my pastor and I get plenty from it. Mostly because I learned to shut up and listen and be truthful when I talk to him.
Working through to the core of the anger is a painful process. I worked through some pretty awful stuff if you read my threads. That was probably one of the hardest month I ever had. I finally just got tired of being so angry about everything. I got tired of people making comments. I got tired of paying the price for being a constant dick.
You have to get through to that core where the anger is. If you don't it will always fester. I can speak from experience.
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out” ― Art Linkletter
