Counselling

Compelled to be Perfect

Compelled to be Perfect

She sat in front of me; the dejection in her eyes mixed with something else – confusion, bewilderment. She still didn’t know where she went wrong, how she went wrong. She tried to do everything right, the way he wanted it. She tried hard, a bit too hard perhaps. She had been married for two […]

March 5, 2013 Haseena Fathima
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Compelled to be Perfect

Compelled to be Perfect

She sat in front of me; the dejection in her eyes mixed with something else – confusion, bewilderment. She still didn’t know where she went wrong, how she went wrong. She tried to do everything right, the way he wanted it. She tried hard, a bit too hard perhaps. She had been married for two […]

February 4, 2013 Haseena Fathima
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V for Vendetta

“Make me of use, at least” she said, her words punctuated with tears. “We need to be useful to someone, or it is far better to die,” she said, her tears punctuated with words. “I am not much better than this,” she held the paperweight in her hands. “This is much better than me. You […]

October 20, 2012 Haseena Fathima
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When Fantasies Went Wild..

When Fantasies Went Wild..

When she dialed me for an appointment, she just mentioned: ‘A simple solution to a simple problem.’ The case is someone whom she loves as her brother surrogate (Her cousin, whom she considers in lieu of her brother who died long back).  When the conversation ended, I smiled. No problem is as simple as it […]

September 20, 2012 Haseena Fathima
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Why don’t we care?

Why don’t we care?

It did not take much time for him to realize that the woman whom he has identified as the personification of love and innocence got bedridden not out of any serious physical illness. So did her physicians, either. Medical tests to which she underwent proved anything which justifies her condition. Specializations changed. General medicine, orthopedics, […]

August 9, 2012 Haseena Fathima
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Case diary : ‘Bring her back on the track’

Case diary : ‘Bring her back on the track’

His demand had nothing extraordinary about it. ‘You ought to change her. To bring her back on the track.’ Usually, counsellors are expected to mend the ways of their problem case. Like detectives, they ought to search for the clue which leads them to the villainous element of behaviour which prevents the problem case from […]

May 28, 2012 Haseena Fathima
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