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underdog is here
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Aug 12, 2020 at 11:22 AM
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Do you prefer a certain time of day for a therapy appointment?
I always preferred after work or late afternoon/evening. Going in the morning would have ruined my entire day. __________________ Please NO @ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. |
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Poohbah
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Aug 12, 2020 at 11:30 AM
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Mornings are better for my work schedule right now, but if there were no other factors to consider I'd probably prefer late afternoon-early evening.
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Aug 12, 2020 at 11:39 AM
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I prefer last appointment of the day.
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Always in This Twilight
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Aug 12, 2020 at 11:45 AM
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I like early afternoon. I work from home as a freelancer (including before pandemic), and that gives me time in the morning to get work done. And pre-pandemic, I used to sometimes like to have a beer someplace afterward, which wouldn't have worked so well if I went at like 9 a.m. Plus my brain doesn't work as well in the mornings--the couple times I've had an 8;30 a.m. session with current T (he's squeezed me in), I've felt much more disjointed, had trouble pulling words, etc. If it's too late in the day, then I sometimes end up with too much anticipation about it. So 12:30, 1, or 1:30 (my T used to mainly do sessions on the half-hour) is ideal.
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Aug 12, 2020 at 11:51 AM
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I really like my T but it doesn’t matter what time it messes up the whole day for me anyway. Not too early though, I have too many rituals to do before I leave.
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Tweaky Dog
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Aug 12, 2020 at 04:19 PM
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Mornings are better for me, as I don't have the opportunity to work myself up about it.
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Aug 12, 2020 at 04:42 PM
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Due to my work schedule I can only go last thing in the day. If I had my choice I would still choose late in the day. I am not a morning person.
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Aug 12, 2020 at 04:54 PM
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I used to love evening sessions. Mornings were the worst, now I see him at 1pm because I have to work evenings so don't have any choice. He did offer to come in when I finish work once, but I felt too bad to take him up on it, because it's so late.
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Aug 12, 2020 at 08:48 PM
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I prefer the afternoon, around 2:00 pm or so, but strangely, I seem
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Aug 12, 2020 at 09:08 PM
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Mornings are better for me. I am sometimes emotionally raw afterward, but if I go later in the day I have too many other distractions in my head and it's harder for me to get into "therapy mode."
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Poohbah
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Aug 12, 2020 at 11:39 PM
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I prefer after work. I like having some quiet time to process the session and think about it. If I had to return to work /other activities I feel something important would be missing.
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Aug 13, 2020 at 04:54 AM
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Evening, preferably his last appointment.
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Aug 13, 2020 at 06:02 AM
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afternoon.
if I've had a bad day, or a depressing day, then it is the perfect oppotunity to talk about it. |
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Aug 13, 2020 at 06:04 AM
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I also like having them on tuesdays and fridays
no idea why tuesday, but friday, end of the week, so lots to talk about |
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Aug 14, 2020 at 09:05 AM
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Mornings to get it over and done with, even if I’m a mess for the rest of the day. I’m just a bundle of nerves if I have to wait.
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Aug 14, 2020 at 10:06 AM
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Either morning or evening, not the afternoon. The afternoon just ruins my day because I spend the whole day waiting for the appointment and then I'm a mess afterwards.
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Aug 16, 2020 at 07:18 AM
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I'm the same, Kit. *hugs*
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Aug 17, 2020 at 05:58 PM
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Early afternoon not on Mondays is when I’m the most functional so we have stuck to that.
Mornings are too early so we stopped those. She’s never scheduled me after 3:45 before but the one time we did that it worked really well. I wonder how a night session would work out but I don’t think she works that late. I only had one night session in the last 9.5 years and it went pretty good. __________________ Ridin' with Biden |
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