Friday diary 15: I paid thousands to consider that I may be worthy of love simply for existing

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On Twitter recently someone asked “has anyone become massively more reliable to others without massively more self-coercion, guilt, shame etc? how did you do it?”

My response:

Cathy Reisenwitz (51/100 sketches) @CathyReisenwitz

@utotranslucence I paid a therapist thousands of dollars to have him gently suggest considering the possibility that I might be worthy of love just for existing and did a fair amount of psychedelics.