Dear Mermaid:

I missed it where you wrote in your original post that you are seeing a therapist. I think that therapist may not be good enough for you. I think she should have been working with you starting with the practical problems of the present (and if they are stabilized, then go backward if needed).

Notice, I didn’t suggest “doing nothing.” I suggested doing the same things you are already doing, but looking at those things with a beginner’s mind, including what you are doing right this moment, reading these very words. Nothing is too small a thing-to-do if it is a part of The Way for you to go: healing.

After writing to you yesterday, I thought to myself that Australia may be a good idea, the break you need, the opportunity to see things a new… the newness that your brain needs. It may be.

Obviously, you feel that you need to be elsewhere and do something else. Probably a good idea, move elsewhere. And away from parents is always a good idea, as far as I am concerned because troubles most often do start in that context: the early years of living with parents.

Moving out and away, probably a good idea…
anita