How embarrassing could it be?I rage-quit my job today (just for today), and when my boss asked me what happened, I told him as vaguely as possible that I'm going through a lot right now. Yet it still brought me to the verge of crying.I have appointments with a clinical psychologist and a psychiatrist in the next two weeks, and I know I won't be able to hold back at all when they start digging deeper. It's not like something dramatic happened either. I'm just so defeated I can't talk about my life without tearing up.I'm male, the psychologist is female, and the psychiatrist is male. How embarrassing will it be for everyone involved when I inevitably start bawling my eyes out?
>>34456707>I'm going through a lot right nowHe doesn't fucking care you know
>>34456800That's why I was deliberately vague and didn't elaborate.
>>34456707It's just crying bro. Nothing to be embarrassed about, it's the bodies way to regulate cortisol
>>34456707I think they would be glad for you to express emotions even crying.
>>34456707People cry there all the time, it is probably the most appropriate place to cry in front of another person. They're there to hear and help you out. Expressing yourself is part of the process, and it includes crying if you feel like it.So don't be embarrassed by it. I used to cry all the time when I went there. Either that or I was so depleted that I just felt nothing.
>>34456707Embarrassment with a shrink is just abiout as self-sabotaging as you can get. The whole point of therapy is honesty
>>34457036Personally I think going to a shrink is self sabotage to begin with. Imagine paying $100 an hour for someone to talk you out of your own instincts. And then when you react in some sort of way, they pathologize it like dissecting an insect lol.>Oh anon. I know you pay me $100 an hour to pretend to give a shit. And I knew you had zero positive affirmations from other humans. I gave it to you and now you say you are having feelings for me? That's called transference anon, it's okay anon it's a pathological thing anon."??? Bitch you knew I had zero positive affirmations and you gave them and you telling me it's some voodoo that I caught feels? Therapists are just emotional prostitutes.
>>34456707I think it would be unusual for a psychiatrist or therapist to get through a whole day without any of their patients crying.
>>34456707They deal with violent and paranoid schizophrenics, conspiracy theorists, and other genuinely crazy people. Some guy with depression crying during a routine appointment is THE most normal thing they see. They have loads of tissues in their rooms for a reason.
You'll only feel worse by holding in all your emotions. A good cry can really help sometimes. I'm sure your psychiatrist will understand. If he doesn't, then fuck him.
