I signed up for therapy...I feel maybe I'm taking the extreme to handle the current situations.?

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So besides marriage counseling I've never been to therapy. I'm currently a grad student at a school in Michigan and since I've been here I've felt that I've not only wasted my time gaining a degree in which the classes seem to not have very much cohesive tissue with becoming a better teacher, but I also feel that my boss/professor/student adviser treats me as I'm incompetent. On top of that my father is dying, 16 hours away. I feel like I've lost a lot of self-confidence just in the last year, mainly because of the way that this faculty member treats me. I've never been to therapy before about low self-esteem and I've always managed to find ways to get through situations. Is going to therapy extreme for how I feel and what I'm dealing with or am I okay with my decision to seek help.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

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Dad411 · Answer

Truly sad about your Dad. I'm sure its hard not being there,
As for therapy, I'll have to go with full hearted no. Stay away unless you are truly crazy, which is sounds like you are not.

We all go through the same form of abuse at grad school. Power tripping faculty usually have severe flaws in their own self confidence and huge ego issues to mask their own inferiority complexes. Nothing new. Buck up and grin and bear it. Literally. Nothing gets at the adviser more than smiling at their insults, agreeing with everything they say and giving them a ton of compliments. (some even think the are actually helping you by being a hard ***) Make it a game.

Low self esteem? Low self esteem is an excuse. Who said you have to have high self esteem and who has that much control over you to give you low self esteem? YOU are in control of any self esteem issues. No one else. 

Marriage counseling? So you've been there done that. How did that work out for you? Therapy is going to be that times 10. (not to mention the "on the books" record you are going to have for whatever job fields you may enter. Background checks can be a bi##ch) 

Time to man up, get through school, help your Dad anyway you can and stop dwelling on the things you have no control over.

There it is, $1000 worth of therapy for free.

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I signed up for therapy...I feel maybe I'm taking the extreme to handle the current situations.?

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