/lit/ - Literature

My therapist doesn't even read books.

She also keeps playing with her cellphone when I'm trying to talk to her about my problems.

One time I got mad at her about the cellphone and she just yelled, "Hey, unlike you, I actually have a social life!" and then I just got really upset and shut up about it.

>tfw 19 and therapist is a MILF who's clearly into me
Feels good man.

>>6081985
lol

>>6081977
>>6081985
>>6081982

>needing therapists
>ever

>>6081985

Ask her out to coffee man

>>6081985
ahahhahahahahahhahahhahaha

>>6081982
Okay, that's messed up

>>6081985
is this referencing a book or are you just mentally ill

Female therapists are evil. I think the modern Western woman is constitutionally incapable of empathising or sympathising with men.

>>6081977
Dude, therapists are usually 10 times more screwed up than any of their patients. Ask her out bro, she'll probably screw you. She's probably into watersports and fisting and everything too.

>tfw they make you wear the straitjacket and you have to turn the pages with your nose

>>6082005
Or at least men of a certain type, i.e. the type of man who needs therapy in the first place. If I ever need to receive mental healthcare again in the future (which is unlikely) I will demand to speak to a man.

>>6081982
>"Hey, unlike you, I actually have a social life!"
You definitely need a new therapist. Mine always turns off her cellphone and seems to take extreme care of the words she uses.

>>6081985
>Well anon, we still have hardly gotten to your superiority complex.
>She wants the D.

>>6081982
You might be getting scammed, friend. :D

>>6082007
She's like 40...

>tfw my therapist is an old woman from Ukraine
It's pretty good.

>>6082007
No matter how this turns out, you will be spending more time together afterwards. You can't lose.

>>6082017
So? You're probably a sunken chested little whiny faggot. Everybody has flaws bro.

>tfw dating my therapist

She keeps asking about my mom, too. What do I feel about her, what kind of perfume did she wear... ugh.

>>6081985
>transference/counter-transference
Ya'll don't know how clueless you are

>>6082030
What does pectus excavatum have to do with it? I have pectus excavatum...

>tfw I don't need a therapist

Were you all raped by DFW or what?

Ever noticed how only crazy bitches study psychology? Council from these people is sure to do more harm than good. I think Houellebecq makes a caustic observation about this in 'Whatever'.

>>6082061
>only crazy bitches study psychology
That's not true, but they do become kinda crazy after working with many patients.

I have to go to therapists because of psychosis or whatever.
Mental hospitals are boring

>>6081977
Better talk to a psychiatrist.
Take some pills and you're done.

>>6081982
That's fucked up, why didn't you snap it in half and shove it up her ass?

>>6081982
This is a great short story idea.

>>6082011

Yeah I'm trying to skip seeing her but every time I try to call her to say I have the flu or something, she just tells me that doesn't matter and that if I don't see her the "recovery process" will be hindered or something, and then I just get really guilty about not going. I don't know why, but I just have to keep seeing her.

>>6082105
>being bullied by a woman

now i see why you need therapy

>>6082017
>tfw soon I'll be 'like 40'

>>6082124
y r u on 4chin gramps???

>>6081982
Sounds like an episode of Louie

>>6081977
Next time get a lacanian one.

>>6082113

It's not bullying. She just has a different way of dealing with things. It's not like she doesn't care.

>>6081985
>Woman is paid to be nice to you
>Holy shit she wants my dick!

>>6082004
Wasn't Dazai molested by an older lady

>>6082150
citation needed

>tfw my therapist thinks I'm insane because I sleep with two glasses, one filled with water and one empty on my bedside table

>>6082204
Its in No Longer Human

>>6082222
damn
I should read it again

>>6082209
and one empty on my bedside table
you pee in that one?

>>6082222
nice quads

>>6082233
The full one is there in case I wake up in the night and I'm thirsty, the empty one is there in case I wake up in the night and I'm not thirsty

>>6082239
We're all disappoint in you anon.

>>6082239
I like it, but wouldn't it be better to have two glasses of water, one on each side of you while you sleep to balance everything out?

Also, apparently your dreams are really great if your bedroom is above a river.

>>6081985
This is a typical delusion for patients.

You guys are idiots, it doesn't matter how much your analyst knows. He will ask you that whether he knows the guy or not because what counts is how you introduce it into analysis. The analyst must not bring his own external judgement into play, at least not in that kind of way. So if your analyst says "oh yes, of course I know him! very good taste anon!" drop that guy and seek someone else. If you are still counting on what your analyst will think of this or that, or whether they know this or that, agree with you in a certain matter or not, you are still at the very beggining of therapy. His job is to make you see how you relate to those things and while we, in our daily lives, may ask "who is that?" only because we see the things as objects that we might know or not, the analyst will be asking that because he is interested in how you relate to it as a subject. Sometimes we question people like "why did you do that?" and it sounds so much that we disagree. This is something that we assume in others and that we must not expect from the analyst. That is, you might assume he disagrees because he asked you that question, you might imagine that he doesn't know this writer or that he judges it to be so and so... Scratch that, stop the assumptions, just answer the goddamn question and stop dodging the fact that answering those questions reveal something about yourself. Just go on talking.

Believe it or not, most of the working world (not just meaning blue-collar laborers, but everyone who has a job and works, like lawyers and doctors for example) don't really care about fictions--literary or otherwise. And perhaps they have good reason not to.

While you and I can readily see the pluses of reading, they are rather minor pluses that enrich or edify but the quaint edges of a larger, more accomplished picture. It's cool to read, but don't make it your life. You'll be disappointed by what becomes of your life.

Same with anyone who pours their entire being into a hobby.

>>6082105
>>6081982
I don't know who this person is you're seeing but they're definitely not a qualified therapist

My therapist thought I was one of these "angry young men", but I wasn't really angry and didn't feel comfortable with the stereotype, so I didn't visit again.

I feel like I would rather kill myself than see a therapist.

>>6082332
but sometimes its all you can do

my experience with therapists:
>'i feel like shit all of the time, have racing thoughts and find nothing enjoyable'
>'you're young and smart, you can do anything you want to do'

now i drink everyday.

>>6082314
>I like it, but wouldn't it be better to have two glasses of water, one on each side of you while you sleep to balance everything out?
This. Having glasses like that break the balance around the bed.
You should have two glasses full of water on each side, and then two empty with one on the front and on the bottom.

>>6082105

Pretty sure you're being used for therapy journals. You must be really fucked up, anon... or should I say, Patient X.

>>6082061
The craziest bitch i know has a masters in psych. I knew her since grade school, she was always nuts. She's actually a drug councilor now.

She seriously tried to murder her ex husband once, he didn't press charges because he was seriously afraid of reprisal from her.

>>6081982

Who needs therapy when you have 4chan?

Wow, I didn't realize so many people legitimately suffered from autism. I thought that it was just a meme.

>>6082634
>the irritation experiment has been continued for 14 months now
>Patient X makes weak attempts of avoiding the sessions but fails to openly challenge my authority despite evident mistreatment
>alternation for the upcoming week: sunglasses throughout the session, suggest to live-stream

>>6081977
>at local B&N
>can't find anything by Yukio Mishima
>just to make sure, ask the guy at the Customer Service counter if they have anything by Yukio Mishima
>"Oh, is that an anime?"
>mfw

>tfw all they had was the Sound of Waves

>>6082923
>implying it's just autism
ADD-anon here reminding you to check your privilege.

>>6082562
I feel u anon

>>6082949
>expecting to see mishima at B&N

>>6082984
I don't know, man
They had Gravity's Rainbow in the must-read section, although I doubt any of the staff fully read it

I used to go to therapy. I now spend the $350/mo on alcohol. Everyone in my life but my liver now likes me better.

>>6082923
Not autism, just depression. I stopped taking meds when I moved out from my parents' place though. Just going to let it run its natural course and do my best to appreciate the glimpses of happiness I find in the meantime.

>>6083015
But do you like yourself better?

>>6082923
and there's a problem with that?

>>6081982
Your therapist is a shit.

ITT: write a short piece putting absolutely no effort into making it look "good"
bonus points: It's your day so far.

>>6083057
kek
i could've sworn i was on the front page. well, this is embarrassing.

>>6082057
maybe your therapist browses /lit/ lol

>>6082138
>getting a lacanian therapist
>doing phallic algebra to figure out why you're so fucked up
>not getting a freudian therapist and fulfilling your phallic mother fantasies

>>6082562
damn. that fucking picture. is this the japanese nazi?

>>6082562
get a better therapist.some studies show that discipline doesn't matter as much as individual skill in a therapist. shop around

>>6082949
>is that an anime

Fucking kek

>>6083118
Zynkyoku Haku it is.

>>6083121
they're getting paid for it, so i'm not going to.

>>6082435

>>6082332
There's a lot of books out there. Why wouldn't you try to read as much as possible?

do americans really talk about muh feels with therapists, even normalfags?

>>6084555
a silent movie flickering silently
huh wow

>>6083015
Overall it's probably money better spent.

>>6082017
i banged a 45 y.o when i was 19

not my therapist though, a friends mom lol

>>6081982
Lol rekt xDDDD

>>6082331
underrated post

this is the only thing worth reading in this thread

>>6082949
shoulda called him a racist lol

>>6081982
Your therapist sucks . Find a new one.

>>6082017
Is she attractive?

>>6082140
This person is sounding awful. I would seriously think about switching.

>>6081982
Is she a Lacanian?

>>6084606
Books help us understand our experiences, but they aren't substitutes for them.

>>6082209
>>6082239
>>6082583
>>6082314
hmm.

>>6082138
>well i feel like... i
>NO PAUSES MOTHERFUCKER
>YOU DONT WANT TO COOPERATE
>GET THE HELL OUT OF MY OFFICE

I think I'll try a Jungian therapist, because they believe in this inner Self thingy most (cognitive, psychoanalists) schools don't.
It would be really good to talk someone who knows a lot of mythology to try to construct or find my inner essence or something like that

>>6085233
sounds like a bunch of "jung-k" (junk) to me!

>>6082138
This would be
>>6081982
plus
>>6085229

>>6085233
Go Freudian or go home.

>>6085233
I know a Jungian therapist! She's really cool.

>>6085245
>she is a fugly bitch who spout mumbo jumbo

>>6085245
I hope mine's too.
>>6085239
I don't want to look at the void of the subject, I want to fill it up with something.
I want to find my pathos, and I don't think psychoanalysis can help here

>>6085233
They're definitely worth it if you can find them. It seems something of a lost style nowadays, at least pure Jungians. Mine is only such because he's like 75 years old and hasn't attended to any 'development' in the past 40 years. But - from someone with literary inclinations and a lot of reading behind them - Jungians are the only one with a good grip on wholistic, universals.

>>6082020
Ask her for food

>tfw studiying pyschology because all your therapist have been shet so you dont want to be the same

>you realize that you are more shitty than they

well fuck.

>>6085261
I envy you

>>6085261
There seems to be a lot of them here where I live. Or at least my friends know how to find them.
When I looked for it it was mostly psychoanalysis or cognitive-behaviouristic

>>6085280
where do you live? are there really still freudian psychoanalysts knocking around?

>>6085267
can you therapize me, op?

>>6085325
>freudian psychoanalysts
Hmmm probably not. They seem to be from a more modern version of psychoanalysis.

I don't know how you all do it. Going and talking to a stranger about your problems seems awful to me. I've banged a few and been around a solid amount of female psych undergrads.

The only cool one was this black chick who I took home and after asked what would Freud say about this and she replied "probably some weird shit"

>>6085398
>you will never have so much sex that you don't care about it anymore

Why do Americans go to therapists? Also, why aren't you guys embarrassed that you have to pay someone to listen to your problems?

Why don't you just drink or fuck like the rest of the planet?

>>6082070
>That's not true, but they do become kinda crazy after working with many patients.

lmao

if anything working with patients makes you more mature. bitches are crazy fom start and before. daddy issues, etc. i know.

>>6085233

this is hippie inner goddess bullshit. avoid at all costs. get it if youre a woman.

>>6085233

Just go to your local Greek Orthodox church.
>dat good confession
>dat prayer rope meditation
>dat soothing liturgy
>dat community

Therapy sucks dick, bro. You need Jesus.

i don't need somebody else to tell me about the roots of my problems. i already figured it out.

the issue is following through with change after the realization. a therapist can't do that for me. nobody can. only me.

>>6085457
>implying a tainted system can get out of the problem loop by itself

>>6081982
>Hey, unlike you, I actually have a social life

>>6081982
Get a new therapist

>>6082005
What is it about the modern woman that in your opinion prevents her from sympathizing with the kind of man you described?

I like the trolling going on here.

>>6082332
Nice presuppositions. Sorry i dont adhere to false social ideals about what a good life is and have my own individual personality.

>>6082332
Sorry but reality can never be as good as the world you create within your mind.
Reality is random pointless and you are but a tiny cog in it.
In fiction and the imagination, you can be anything ideals become reality and anything is possible. but you go and pretend to enjoy things because "muh ideology and mug gotta have a good lie and be happy"
I'll see you when you are in the middle of your mid life crisis, wondering why you have been leaving according to false ideals for the past 40 years.

Yes I wanted to see a therapist because it was so american... but actually things start to look brighter if your brain is a little damaged. In the end you go to therapy because your brain works too good, not because it's broken like you may think.

>>6085818
lol nah dude you dont know SHIT about psychiatyry!

>>6085214
yes they are, real life is trash

>>6085147
Do you see it as a positive experience looking back from the present?

>>6085819
Never pretended to, haha

>>6085457
Going to a therapist will make a change in your life and those sessions will spur you into making more changes. Good luck though.

>>6085818
kill yourself already.

>>6085831
Because I'm joking?
Be careful, I'm a Zen Buddhist, if I kill myself you disappear.

>>6082050
>Lacan
>implying anyone gives a shit about psychoanalysis, otherwise known as posturing.

>>6085833
Then please kill yourself

>>6085833
>Because I'm joking?

No you weren't.

>>6085833
i dont think you were joking dude every depressed retard thinks that theyre depressed because theyre enlightened or whatever instead of because they have a broken brain.

>>6084555
Id probably kill myself too if i wrote that shitty

LOL
O
L

>>6085857
nice

>>6085856
Now you contradict yourself, but if you're depressed hang on, it will pass before the end of the century.