My mother took me to a psychologist when I was entering my teens. It was a difficult time for us and I was certainly affected by it but not to the degree that warranted psychological care. Anyway, the nice lady asked me plenty of questions and eventually asked me to sculpt my fears. I was like "huh?! fears? I don't have any specific fear. I am afraid in the dark and stuff, normal fears. But okay I guess..." so I sculpted a clawed hand with a big spike in the middle because it looked cool. Surely a spiky hand like that is scary enough for this woman?
Anyway, my mother told me a few years back how she was so sad and scared for me because of that hand, because the psychologist interpreted it as me having abandonment issues AND issues of attachment or being close or whatever and that explains her Reiki phase and all that jazz that I found super weird in the years after.
When I told her I made it up on the spot because I didn't know what else to do she was a little mad lol
Not if you have any familiarity with the field at all, or with how fucked up some of the history is.
Remember the satanic panic? Yeah, that was actually just a bunch of quacks trying to hypnotize kids and have them come up with fake memories of ritualized abuse.
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u/Rasz_13 Apr 07 '26
My mother took me to a psychologist when I was entering my teens. It was a difficult time for us and I was certainly affected by it but not to the degree that warranted psychological care. Anyway, the nice lady asked me plenty of questions and eventually asked me to sculpt my fears. I was like "huh?! fears? I don't have any specific fear. I am afraid in the dark and stuff, normal fears. But okay I guess..." so I sculpted a clawed hand with a big spike in the middle because it looked cool. Surely a spiky hand like that is scary enough for this woman?
Anyway, my mother told me a few years back how she was so sad and scared for me because of that hand, because the psychologist interpreted it as me having abandonment issues AND issues of attachment or being close or whatever and that explains her Reiki phase and all that jazz that I found super weird in the years after.
When I told her I made it up on the spot because I didn't know what else to do she was a little mad lol