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[QUOTE="bballbeadle, post: 3252865, member: 548"]
I have written about this before, but I was a therapist who, when her clients said they were Syracuse bball fans, acknowledged that she, too, was a fan. At first I thought this was wrong. Then, as time went on, I realized that this fandom was a helpful tool to discuss coping and all sorts of things. It felt good for those people that their therapist “got it” when they felt sad about a loss, and then allowed that sadness to sweep into other areas of their lives. We talked about the STRUGGLE. And when they won, we shared the joy and laughed at how it put a bounce in our step and made other troubles seem less significant. But why was that? And we could discuss that.

I had many clients who never knew I was a fan. But for those who did, it added something good to the process.

Now I’m retired. I still have some clients who will text me a happy or despairing emoji when I am at a game.

My friend, Aziz, is a hard core Carolina fan (I thought). I met him in Cortland for lunch this week and he told me matter-of-factly that he is disconnecting from Carolina. He’ll be back when they’re back. He has health issues; life is difficult for him at the moment.

I, too, have stepped back after losses, and in particular I step back from this forum. I don’t really have anything intelligent to say. But I have season tickets and regard myself as a fan. I am there for the agony and the ecstasy, but I try to make the agony less agonizing.  :rolleyes:  And I coast on the ecstasy for as long as possible!
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