Realised that performing daily psychotherapy without boundaries is extremely tiring, though I didn't know it was until I realise that I've been bitching to too many people about the distress that Stich is causing. Now I avoid eye contact at all costs with Stich, trying to stay off topics such as childhood, parents, play, just so as not to encourage his incessant, self-indulgent "I am so disadvantaged because of my childhood and I want to let you see the extent of my baggage" talk.
It is very tempting to see oneself as a psychotherapy case, basically because it's convenient to blame the way you are in the present on external forces of your childhood, on parents, on everyone except yourself. Stich says that psychotherapy is most appropriate for him but I think perhaps that is what is causing his presenting problem of wanting to do everything but not actually doing anything. Stich uses his past and his 'making-everybody-happy' philosophy to justify his inertia. i.e. "I want to do XXX but because XXX said/did this then I ended up not doing it."
Maybe he doesn't see it this way. Maybe inertia is not really inertia (to him) but a carefully considered response to an impulsive decision. On the one hand he seems bitter, yet he seems to want to project the "I'm resigned to my fate", self-sacrificing image. Maybe it's both.
Maybe I should stop letting Stich bother me.
