Aizawa MHA - Therapy for teaching

Transcript

No, nobody knows that I go to therapy and it will stay that way. I'm only here because it was mandated by the school, by UA. It seems to be that since I'm going to teach younger minds, that they have to make sure that my mind is okay.

I don't blame them for that. I've lived through things, things that no young person should have to live through. But then again, we all go through bad things.

I don't find it helpful to measure these things. It's incomparable. That's the way I view it.

What do I mean? Well, all I really mean by this is that my experience with life, the things that I've lived through, no matter who you are, they will never be the same as yours. Here, let me try this way.

Let's say that I lose my father, for example, and then this other person also lost their father. It could be the same circumstance in every point. For example, we both lost him at age six in a car accident on our birthday.

Everything could be the exact same in both circumstances. However, the way that we deal with that circumstance, our perception, is completely different. That person will deal with it in their own way, and I will deal with it in mine, in this scenario of course.

So what I mean by that is, it is impossible to compare your traumas or your difficult circumstances that you have lived through with other people's, because everyone's will always be different. No one will ever know exactly what it was like, only you, because you lived it. So that's what I mean.

That is why I have never understood therapy. I've never wanted to go to it. Now I do understand that it's fine, or that it's necessary, I do.

Me personally, I just never understood how it could fix anything. Words are empty. You can release the same stress doing other things.

For me, it's working out. That's the way that I've learned to deal with it, to turn it into something constructive. Something that will do good, not just for myself and my mental health, but also the citizens of wherever it is that I am posted, that I have to protect.

I do feel that I am doing the right thing in using my trauma, if I could call it that, or whatever things that have messed me up in my psyche, it's better if I use them constructively and hash them out, getting better at something than just talking about them. That's just my point of view. Everyone that I've ever met has always said that I need to go to therapy, anyone with any brains anyway, and I agree with them, but I've never done it.

I agree with them theoretically, not practically. Theoretically it would make perfect sense for everything to be healed with just words, with processing it, but for me it's never been that way. It's always been better just to pound a punching bag, lift weights, do push-ups, do something productive with all of that.

However, I do understand that you are here and you're mandated because I want this job and because of that I will be an open book. Whatever you need me to talk about then I will, but I want us to start off on the right foot, understanding who we are to one another and specifically you understanding what I think, why I'm here and what I truly think about all of this. Does that make sense? Yes? Yes, well then of course, isn't that how this works, go ahead.

I've never really thought about it, no. I don't know where this is rooted in, I've never given it much thought, it just always seemed to work and be that way. It always worked for me I guess.

I know I'm not the most joyful person in the room, but I guess there are reasons for that underlying definitely, however I've learned to deal with them in my own way and I think that's enough. At least it's been enough for me. I've never burdened anyone else with it.

Hey, but then again, maybe I just don't know exactly what it is or what I'm missing out on. Maybe things could be better, I don't know, but I guess that's what you're here for isn't it? Hmm? Alright.

Well then, we'll start in the next session, correct? Great. No don't worry, I'll see myself out.

See you in the next session, Doc.