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[rinue]

Experiencing emotional problems. Again. Have diagnosed self with Full-Scale Burnout. [Note: link is worth reading for clarification.] Am worried that people will misinterpret diagnosis and believe I am a race-car driver. Believe I could be very sucessful race-car driver, but is forbidden by Patrick. Upon condsideration, think many of my emotional problems stem directly from not being a race-car drver. For example, getting dressed would be easier if my only choice was a corporate-sponsored unitard. Likewise, my helmet would be very authoritative; could also be used to smash things such as potatoes.

Moving away from the subject of race-car driving, am worried that life may be pointless. Not so much everyone's, but my own specifically. Without clear objective or purpose. Few promises of advancement on even an intellectual level. Am failure, probably. In addition, coping skills seem specious at best. Clear explanation emerges: objective must be not writing. Am dramatic success! Thinking of throwing in the towel and becoming a professor of something, precisely because I don't want to and therefore could not be disappointed.

[Addendum: Am, however, greatly heartened by reappearence of dear and surly friend.]

Comments

[valancy.livejournal.com]

Have you considered life coaching? I know you're against psychiatric help (which I think would could be useful; you know my offer), but life coaching is about a lot more. Catherine's a beginning life coach; she might cut you a deal.

[tommx.livejournal.com]

i honestly regret sometimes that you are not in my area geographically. aside from not having you as a regular physical presence in my life, i feel that you would genuinely benefit from being a part of my martial arts association. aside from the opportunity to do cool stuff with swords and big pointed sticks and such, i believe it would help you to further your development of spirit and bring you closer to a unity of mind, body and spirit. i suspect that such a unity would go a long way in resolving the emotional stress that you experience from not being a race car driver just as it has helped me to thwart the birds in their constant campaign to take my soul from me.

Creativity 12 step program

[(Anonymous)]

I believe that we all need to band together and start a creativity 12 step program. When I get all depressed about my own life and how I hate where its going at this moment, I always find that having someone help me creatively or if i am creative things don't seem so bad. =) I like the idea of life coaching, it sounds interesting. If you try it, tell me what it is like=)


Ashley or

Maudlin =P

At the risk

[swimcoyote.livejournal.com]

at the risk of sounding terribly calloused towards your predicament and personal views, when someone begins to wonder what their purpose is, that's when I start pushing really hard for psychiatric evaluation. Or at least psychologic evaluation. (note:psychologists listen to you describe your problems and recommend ways for you to help them. Psychiatrists listen to your problems, write you a perscription, and then either give you other recommendations or send you to a psychologist.)

Also, there is no shame in working a job that you like well enough to earn enough money to have the free time to do what you really want to do.

Remember who you are.

Re: At the risk

[rinue.livejournal.com]

I *have* enough money to do the things I want to do, and enough time. This is unlikely to change any time soon. But I agree that happiness should not come entirely from your job.

As for psychologists . . . while I've known teachers and researchers that I've liked, I've had very very bad experiences with clinical psychologists. Very bad. Traumatically bad. Arguably, at least part of my emotional problem stems directly from these experiences.

I'm working things out in my own way. This was not one of the fabled "cries for help." Nevertheless, I thank you for your concern. :)

-Romie

[rhys-k.livejournal.com]

Something about teaching Romie to wield swords and pointy objects scares me... or not so much teaching her how to (as she no doubt already knows), but giving her time to practice these impulses into honed reaction time. Methinks Patrick would be buying stock in band-aids after accidentally startling her too many times.

Emotional problems seem to run rampant in my friend circle... perhaps the human race at large, as well. Also seems to have suspicious tie-ins with governmental and societally dictated days of life advancement.