Have you ever had counselling? I ask because loads of people have told me it saved their lives and that I should deffo do it.
I seem to have a ridiculous resistance to the concept. I think of those Americans with more money (and teeth) than sense. What do they do? I’ve got about 5 mates who went to Relate to fix their marriage and they all broke up 🤷🏽♂️
I suppose my (brain fog) started when I got cancer. As soon as they told me it had gone, I went from ‘fight mode’ to “waiting” for it to come back. I wore black for 18 months!! What was interesting about that period in my life is that I was still functioning. Still telling jokes and still working at trying to help others on my radio show.
I once went to a hypnotherapy session. The guy had come on the show and frankly I thought he was talking nonsense. Anyway he offered me a free session and as the child of immigrants, I love a freeness. So I went to Harley Street and sat there very doubtful indeed.
He said I should take a tissue in case. Incase what? “ In case you have trauma” A wha de?
Is that the station already. Jheez, I gotta type quick.
Long story short, it turns out that my trauma (yes trauma) was caused because I was about to run the marathon and we found out about the cancer five years previously when (yes) I was training for the marathon.
Somewhere in my psyche, I associated the whole thing with being sick.
And yes Badman cried like a baby and used the whole box of tissues.
It would probably make sense for more of us men to talk. Specially when you are doing the type of interviews I’m doing this week.
I’m not even sure this musing makes sense but like Patrick Valance, it’s a kind of mind dump.
Thank you for reading and have a wonderful and productive day
