Something to keep in mind when you visit a psychiatrist...

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4. I agree about making a good impression...

I'm much more calm and collected this time than with the last psychiatrist I meet when I was a real mess. I don't find this DR talks down to me so much as at me in a bit of stricter fashion. So far I don't mind it but I'll have to see over time how it goes. It's so difficult finding good DRs that I'll probably stick with this guy for a while unless things really go south.

The way the discussion in my OP went was basically that there is a 10 year old me (he didn't put an age on it but he did say kid/child) and a very advanced adult me. When it comes to performing at work /school, hobbies, my interests, writing etc it's the adult me making the decisions and talking; but when it comes to important life decisions and facing emotional turmoil it's the 10 year old that takes over. At those points I avoid, I panic, and I run. It's a habit that I've never learned to properly control because up till reverently I've lived in an environment that allowed me to avoid and hide. The phrasing of the problem as adult / child that part of me is emotionally underdeveloped is the part that seems a bit condescending. However I think this may be my own vies as much as anything, not wanting to accept this very valid interpretation. And like I said I myself have thought along these very lines so it's probably not far off the mark.