He may have known how to put you in a happy place. However, you
can also learn how to put yourself in a happy place as well. As
I've been saying, it's all about the choices that you make. Will
you choose to learn to put yourself in a happy place, or will you
choose to put yourself in the more-familiar state of
depression?
And how do you know that professional counsellors are cold and
distant if you haven't even tried that option yet? The fact that
you said that they 'seem' distant and cold tells me that you
haven't had experience with them before. Or if you did, one cold
and distant professional counsellor is not the same as all of them
being cold and distant.
On my part, it took me months to make an appointment to see a
professional counsellor. It doesn't have to do with money, for my
school provides free counselling services. Rather it had to do
with, sadly speaking, my own ego. I was a combat medic specialist
in the Army. I saw and talked with plenty of psychiatric cases
during SAF Psychiatric Medicine In-House Center duty. I talked to
plenty of patients and gave them whatever advice I could.
And there I was, becoming one of those people who needed a
listening ear. Do you have any idea how much that thought irked
me?
But I made a choice, and I chose swallow my ego and see a
professional counsellor. I don't know about you, but if the fact
that they're being paid to make you feel better irks you, then I
don't know what to say. I was initially irked at having to see a
counsellor, but looking back, I know it was the right choice, for
it led me to accept my friend's suicide and to move on with my
life.
So will choose to be irked at professional counsellors and run the
risk of depression? Or will you choose to get over whatever
opinions you may have of them and give a shot at happiness?
Your choice, I say. It's not for me to tell you what choice to
make.
