LThe desire to feel "good about myself" and to be happy to be alive is the reason that led me to enter analysis. I had experienced this state in my country, Ivory Coast, which I left at the age of 13 to continue my studies in France. I had lost this state of well-being after 3 years away from my family and I wanted to find it again at all costs.
After a long period of wandering and vain search for a solution with the doctors, psychoanalysis, discovered in philosophy class and at the university, imposed itself on me.
It was a happy time to be on Doctor Faladé's couch, happy to talk freely about my problems to a substitute mother who listened attentively and comprehensively.
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