Today I started seeing another therapist (Dale) at my mental health clinic.  He was the one I first saw when I started going to the clinic almost two years ago.  At that time, after I had been seeing him for a couple of months, they learned that I had a drug problem and I was switched to something called the Aquarius Program.  That is for the people who have substance abuse and alcohol problems.  I was told today that I am not in that program and have been placed in the Outpatient Department.  I think that I will get much more help fighting my depression this way.  Dale did tell me that if I started thinking about drugs a lot, they wanted me to let them know.  He said that I had been going to the clinic longer than most people had, but all of the staff members had been afraid that I was going to be killed by my use of drugs, which is why they are still letting me go there.  Dale said that he thought I had a certain amount of anger built up within me.  He gave me some material to read on Anger Management before I see him in two and a half weeks.  I came away from my hour-long session feeling better than I did when I went to it.  This afternoon I have practically gone crazy trying to get my browser to work.  I use Firefox.  I have heard that someone at the home health care agency I use has also been having trouble with it today, so I am hopeful that it is just something wrong with the program and not with my computer. Quote of the Day: "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”   -Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Other than firefox, sounds like it was a great day in all.
Dale sounds like a pretty good part of the next step forward.
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This was nice to read with morning coffee! Weeble hugs and Mojo.
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Do you have difficulty being totally honest with your therapist? I do. It sounds like you have a really good therapist in Dale.

I\'m going to anger management classes soon. We can share our anger. Only I\'m angry that I have to go to anger management. Ha. Beat that for anger.