[The Ten Spot] Resposne
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his_sarah_jane075. TEN things you should talk to a therapist about.
1. “My parents died when I was five. It was an automobile accident, and no, I wasn’t there. I don’t really have many memories of them, but I do have nightmares. They’re absolutely dreadful nightmares. And they’ve haunted me for most of my life.”
2. “Even though my aunt made a wonderful guardian, I often felt abandoned when she would go off to scientific conferences halfway around the world and leave me behind. Perhaps I do have abandonment issues – and oh no, that is very much not an admittance, thank you all the same – but I guess the point is that I had a lonely childhood. I never fit in with the other children very well either.”
3. “She was my best mate from the moment she moved to Ealing. She was unlike any other student at the school: stubborn, adventurous, rather outspoken – in a sum, rather a lot like me. It only made sense that we grew so close. Oh, we got in to so many wonderful scrapes together. Until the day she died. I couldn’t save her in time. All the therapy in the world, then and now, won’t ever change that.”
4. “I think that was my first taste at betrayal. I really did love him and I never once imagined that he only wanted me as a sort of trophy wife: pretty but not beautiful enough to have affairs with other men, intelligent, quick-witted. He wanted me to marry him and be his wife and oh, how I did want to marry him and be his wife. But not at the expense of my own career – never at that expense.”
5. “I’ve nearly died more than once. I’ve been beaten and tortured, mentally and physically. I’ve watched others sacrifice themselves for me. I’ve seen what war brings. Honestly, I sometimes wonder how I’m still sane.”
6. “He said he’d come back. He had always kept his promise before.”
7. “I wouldn’t say I’m afraid of death, no. And I don’t believe that I am suicidal either. I don’t like putting others in a position of danger – oh, I could never live with myself if something were to happen as a result of that. But to rush in to something foolishly? I’ve done that so many times, I’ve lost count. Perhaps I don’t value my own life as much as I follow those of others.”
8. “I’m not cut out to be a mum. I don’t know the first thing about it – and I’m far too old to start down this path, no matter what you say. It frightens me so much: that one day I’ll do something wrong and lose him forever. I have grown attached. For better or for worse, he’s my son now. I just don’t know what to do sometimes. How does anyone handle this sort of fear?”
9. “He’s a spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service. A double oh, to be honest. And I know all about it, so there’s absolutely no reason to bull shit around me. It’s the reason M recommended you to me. He’s gone right now - on a mission. And I never know how to handle sitting about waiting, let alone what lies to tell our daughter.”*
10. “I’m sorry. Coming here was a waste of time. There’s absolutely nothing I wish to discuss, after all.”
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*from Milliways Bar ‘verse
1. “My parents died when I was five. It was an automobile accident, and no, I wasn’t there. I don’t really have many memories of them, but I do have nightmares. They’re absolutely dreadful nightmares. And they’ve haunted me for most of my life.”
2. “Even though my aunt made a wonderful guardian, I often felt abandoned when she would go off to scientific conferences halfway around the world and leave me behind. Perhaps I do have abandonment issues – and oh no, that is very much not an admittance, thank you all the same – but I guess the point is that I had a lonely childhood. I never fit in with the other children very well either.”
3. “She was my best mate from the moment she moved to Ealing. She was unlike any other student at the school: stubborn, adventurous, rather outspoken – in a sum, rather a lot like me. It only made sense that we grew so close. Oh, we got in to so many wonderful scrapes together. Until the day she died. I couldn’t save her in time. All the therapy in the world, then and now, won’t ever change that.”
4. “I think that was my first taste at betrayal. I really did love him and I never once imagined that he only wanted me as a sort of trophy wife: pretty but not beautiful enough to have affairs with other men, intelligent, quick-witted. He wanted me to marry him and be his wife and oh, how I did want to marry him and be his wife. But not at the expense of my own career – never at that expense.”
5. “I’ve nearly died more than once. I’ve been beaten and tortured, mentally and physically. I’ve watched others sacrifice themselves for me. I’ve seen what war brings. Honestly, I sometimes wonder how I’m still sane.”
6. “He said he’d come back. He had always kept his promise before.”
7. “I wouldn’t say I’m afraid of death, no. And I don’t believe that I am suicidal either. I don’t like putting others in a position of danger – oh, I could never live with myself if something were to happen as a result of that. But to rush in to something foolishly? I’ve done that so many times, I’ve lost count. Perhaps I don’t value my own life as much as I follow those of others.”
8. “I’m not cut out to be a mum. I don’t know the first thing about it – and I’m far too old to start down this path, no matter what you say. It frightens me so much: that one day I’ll do something wrong and lose him forever. I have grown attached. For better or for worse, he’s my son now. I just don’t know what to do sometimes. How does anyone handle this sort of fear?”
9. “He’s a spy for the British Secret Intelligence Service. A double oh, to be honest. And I know all about it, so there’s absolutely no reason to bull shit around me. It’s the reason M recommended you to me. He’s gone right now - on a mission. And I never know how to handle sitting about waiting, let alone what lies to tell our daughter.”*
10. “I’m sorry. Coming here was a waste of time. There’s absolutely nothing I wish to discuss, after all.”
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*from Milliways Bar ‘verse
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