Thanks Valerie. This is the first of ~ 20 stories in the Shrinks: Do You Need One? series. FYI, John is partially modeled after the young man who taught me to play tennis in the summer of 1970 when I was working at the Wyoming State Hospital.
Wow Bill...I had read your teaser intro...this is really flushed out. Complex are the lives of people. Especially resonated with the comment by Robby about how we try and predict people's outcomes by how they present themselves...and yet a lot of the time people put on 'masks' and different masks for different interactions with different people. Can we really know anyone? Also how incredibly difficult it must be to be a therapist and not take on the guilt of being unable to help someone. We can only do the best with the information we have at hand and what people present of themselves...beyond that we have no control of how others live their lives.
Thanks Valerie. This is the first of ~ 20 stories in the Shrinks: Do You Need One? series. FYI, John is partially modeled after the young man who taught me to play tennis in the summer of 1970 when I was working at the Wyoming State Hospital.
Wow Bill...I had read your teaser intro...this is really flushed out. Complex are the lives of people. Especially resonated with the comment by Robby about how we try and predict people's outcomes by how they present themselves...and yet a lot of the time people put on 'masks' and different masks for different interactions with different people. Can we really know anyone? Also how incredibly difficult it must be to be a therapist and not take on the guilt of being unable to help someone. We can only do the best with the information we have at hand and what people present of themselves...beyond that we have no control of how others live their lives.