Posted by Dinah on April 24, 2009, at 16:25:04
In reply to Re: Feeling melancholy » Dinah, posted by SLS on April 23, 2009, at 9:30:44
> Hi Dinah.
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> You are uniquely wonderful, regardless of how you try to understand yourself. You are accepted by me in your entirety, especially for the positive core of your being that I am pretty sure I can see.
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> I put together a long reply yesterday acting as an armchair psychotherapist. I decided not to post it because I wasn't comfortable with what I had written. I offered too many scenarios.
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> For instance, perhaps you no longer have a white whale to conquer. Worse than that, perhaps you need not have spent so many years chasing it when the answer now seems so simple. Lost years?
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> I don't know.
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> I have other possible explanations, but I imagine that you have explored them already.
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> - Scott
>Thanks, Scott. That means a lot to me.
I'd actually welcome your thoughts. From what you've said over time, I think your therapist might approach things a bit differently than mine. However thoroughly therapized I may be, it's mostly in the same direction.
White whale? Did you have anything in particular in mind?
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