Professional Help
For years I’ve been saying to people that I’m crazy, and need professional help. Most people didn’t believe me. But now someone else is suggesting such things.
Of course, I’ve been thinking about why I’d need such help…. and I probably do, but I think that the reason for needing it is different than the reason that the other person is suggesting. They seem to think that my recent issues with depression are to do with the issues I had with support raising last year.
I think it’s just female problems…. as always.
Maybe the other issues are contributing to the problems, but to me it seems that the core is always my issues with girls – or more corectly their issues with me. If this is the core issue, then I don’t see how talking to some professional is going to make girls not hate me. Or not “like me as a friend” which seems to amount to the same thing in practical terms. Plus the whole thing seems to amount to selling snake oil to me.
So I thought back over my issues with girls, and realised that all but one of my infatuations were “caused” by others. By caused I mean that someone made a suggestion that made me think in that way, or someone reckoned I was interested (but I wasn’t) or something like that. Which means all those crushes were just me exploring someone elses idea.
Of course that leaves the one that wasn’t caused by others, and was all my own fault. And I’ve seen her aboot once a week recently, and every time I see her I get all angry and/or depressed or spend the rest of the day trying to ignore her. This is making the problem worse…. especially since I just pretend she doesn’t exist and don’t interact with her.
The only way I can see the whole professional help thing helping is if I get some drugs, or some Officespace style hypnotherapy.
Hmmm… it’s tempting to blame stuff on the fact girls seem to find it impossible to see you as more than a friend, but I reckon this is just a convenient excuse. I mean, I use the line myself, it usually gets a fair amount of sympathy, but doesn’t really explain the problem.
The problem is why the symptom of not having a girlfriend depresses you so much. For example, is it poor self image? We can choose to view ourselves independently of how others (including girls) view us.
And you have to look at why you want a girlfriend so much, too. Is it just to be validated as a person on some level? To know you meant something to someone? I know it has been for me in the past. But as men of faith, we can know that our Father in heaven loves us far more than any girl, and went to lengths far beyond any selfless act since. He valued you enough to save you from an eternity without Him, and that is one of the best things anyone can say about you.
Still… I know the feeling, brother. I know the feeling.
I’d say that yes, it might be a convienient excuse…. but then the first bad thing in the Bible is when Adam is single….