Day Sixteen

Well, it was a pretty good day. Chris was very impressed with my artwork. I had a good reason to go to the trouble of doing that; I felt it was important for her to see that I have gone out into the world, so to speak, and produced artwork that was used and published. It banished the initial impression that I was a total social shut-in and showed that I can deal with the world to an extent. I also saw Dr. Sargeant today and he agreed with me that the triggers for my anxiety may well be my father's early influence as well as my mother's over-protectiveness when I was a child. It was important to me that he concur with that idea, so I didn't feel that it was an illogical leap like something from a movie or TV show. He seemed impressed that I made moves to continue therapy after I was done in this program; It showed that I was still determined to find recovery in my life and not to relapse back to my former ways. It's still a scary thought but hopefully I'll be able to handle it when the time comes.