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[nightyorb]

Hypothetically speaking, is it ever okay to steal a pokemon?

Unrelated second question -- what's a better name, Chief or Sarge?

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[nastyboy]

I think I very much do need it, but it is worrying. I feel I have always been open about my flaws, but some I have held closer to my chest.

To tell such things freely, especially when they strike to a deep and vulnerable spot of me, it feels uncomfortable. I think of such things and wonder how on earth I could bring the words forth to a stranger.

But then, I would be asking the same of those Gyarados as well, wouldn't I?

[nightyorb]

I'm basically a complete stranger, right?
You probably wouldn't recognise me if you saw me on the street.
But you've already admitted you need help to me.
I'm pretty sure Jawbone would say that is the first step and all the rest get easier.

But also, therapists can't talk about what you tell 'em in private, and can't use it as blackmail against you.
And if they do, you can use that fact as blackmail against them.
You are protected by mutually assured destruction.

[nastyboy]

Is it normal to think of a process that is associated with healing as "mutually assured destruction"?

[nightyorb]

Not the process itself, just... if you are worried about revealing private things to another person
(which, by the way, I don't think it's paranoid, people should be concerned about these kinds of things!)
know that they also have reasons for why they wouldn't reveal anything you said beyond just being a good person (presumably)

[nastyboy]

I see. Thank you. I do not think it is paranoid, but it is not often the sort of talk I hear spoken about people in fields such as those. When my lover has spoken to me on the subject, it has been in a slightly different manner.

[Presumably to not spook Dimitri about it.]

I will see about therapy for all three of us, then. I know that you posted this initially as a call for assistance with your own matters, but I do appreciate your help.