this. never, ever go to a "professional" for help. beg and plead if you must for anyone else, but don't pay for it. my parents were idiots half the time and i paid for it and then they had the gall to blame me for not doing well in school at times or acting out. i'm ok now, but only because of learning life's lessons more or less on my own, even with lots of people around. that is, i was still an island of introspection.
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