Thursday, 18 April 2019

My Personal Shrink.

I asked my psychiatrist a question this morning:

‘Look here,’ I said with some authority, ‘I’m neurotic as hell and loaded to the gunwales with neuroses. Does the fact that I’m aware of it mean I’m not loony after all?’

‘Don’t know,’ he replied, before dipping his rich tea biscuit in his morning coffee and deliberating on the question: ‘Is Hermione Granger a real person, a fantasy figure, or a being born of group projection?’

I left him sitting there in his office inside my head. He has no formal qualifications, you know, but he’s the only one I can trust because he’s the only one who knows me well enough to wrangle with my issues. Employing a professional would be pointless.

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