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From: Ellen-Marie Silverman
Date: 30 Sep 2012
Time: 12:39:37 -0500
Remote Name: 76.230.146.138
Hi Pam. Nice to hear from you in this manner as well as through posts on listservs and through your blog. You have provided me with useful feedback over the years, candid and clear. /// I really do not have more to say in a general, hypothetical way about entering therapy because of feeling "the shoulds." I want to emphasize, though, the necessity of making a decision to enter therapy thoughtfully by seeking information and becoming appropriately self-aware. And I would hope that if a person sought therapy solely on the basis of "the shoulds" that the therapist they approached would help them determine whether or not therapy was an answer they were seeking to resolve the pain and uncertainty they may be feeling --- as I wrote about doing with the airline pilot who contacted me earlier this year because he was afraid that by continuing to stutter he migh loose his job. /// Best advice --- hold back on making a decision on the basis of "the shoulds" alone. Take time to know yourself and the options that seem right for you to thoughtfully decide what step to take next. /// My best, Pam. Ellen-Marie