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Elder Harridan x-hankster
Member Since Jun 2011
Location: Milan/Michigan
Posts: 39,834
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#1
Welcome to the couch, old and new! A place to hang out - sometimes you get immediate feedback, sometimes you don't.
Shouting, "Cool Whip" tends to bring others out from between the cushions if you're feeling lonely. This is a chatty thread. All are welcome. We're kind of psychologically oriented, sometimes. We try to be supportive. At times we discuss what that means. It’s a place to plop down on the couch when you come home from work or wherever, or wake up in the middle of the night, or check in at lunch, rant a bit or not, and be among friends. We advise you not to drink or drug and text your therapist ("T") - we speak from experience. Sometimes the thread moves fast and you might get overlooked; sometimes it moves slowly and all you hear are crickets. Sometimes you get hugged or thanked pages later. So if it's a bigger question, you might want to start a new thread. Grab a cushion, a spot on the floor, or an armchair in the corner and make yourselves comfy. 220 - Urban Dicionary Def - probably the only clean one! |
Myck, SlumberKitty
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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
Posts: 19,144
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#2
I need to get myself to the gym and fight off the impulse to nap.
Or I should prepare for class tomorrow. |
SlumberKitty, unaluna, UnderRugSwept
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Elder Harridan x-hankster
Member Since Jun 2011
Location: Milan/Michigan
Posts: 39,834
(SuperPoster!)
12 66.3k hugs
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#3
I need to get my show on the road too.
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atisketatasket, SlumberKitty, UnderRugSwept
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Grand Magnate
Member Since Jul 2014
Location: Usa
Posts: 3,068
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#4
Hey couchies, I'm just gonna flop here for a while. Carry on, thanks!
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Daffydungle, SlumberKitty, WarmFuzzySocks
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atisketatasket, Quietmind 2, UnderRugSwept
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Magnate
Member Since May 2017
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,515
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#5
Our Indian food was just delivered!
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SlumberKitty
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Daffydungle, LonesomeTonight, Polibeth, Quietmind 2, UnderRugSwept, WarmFuzzySocks
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Poohbah
Member Since Jun 2014
Location: Earth
Posts: 1,193
9 2,235 hugs
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#6
I just ordered Thai food for delivery - yay! Football game tonight - yay!
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SlumberKitty
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Magnet
Member Since Jun 2017
Location: in the garden
Posts: 2,306
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#7
Whew. I am finally starting to come out of whatever funk got hold of me over the summer. That was pretty awful. I just left a therapy session feeling pretty okay. Well, if I can say "left the session" to mean I hit the Zoom exit button and stayed sitting in my same chair in front of my laptop.
I'm teaching a Zoom parenting class tonight (which I love doing) then attending a presentation on autism. I think I will get out of here and go for a walk. __________________ Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by accidents of time, or place, or circumstance, are brought into closer connection with you. (St. Augustine) |
atisketatasket, ElectricManatee, SlumberKitty, UnderRugSwept
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Writing my way through...
Member Since Feb 2020
Location: In the desert
Posts: 7,218
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#8
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
Posts: 20,731
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#9
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SlumberKitty, unaluna
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ElectricManatee
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Poohbah
Member Since Apr 2020
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,257
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#10
I think i have forgotten to pay a bill or buy something as it is the end of my pay fortnight and i have $60 extra. I need to get the pest guys i next week so it can go towards that. I have been doing less impulse/comfort shopping lately so maybe that is it.
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LonesomeTonight, SlumberKitty, unaluna, WarmFuzzySocks
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Poohbah
Member Since Apr 2020
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,257
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#11
I pretty much have everything i need. I am a simple person and could never understand why my ex wanted a bigger TV or a new power tool when he hardly used the ones he had.
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
Posts: 20,731
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#12
OK, have a phone consult with a possible new T tomorrow then may have an intake appointment with another one Wednesday. He seems particularly promising, because I asked him a bunch of questions, and he basically passed all the tests. Including saying that transference is a natural thing to experience and talk about it, followed by a smiley. I was concerned that he was particularly religious from some stuff on his website, but he said he really isn't and talked more about that. And he tends to focus on trauma, so I asked about capital-T vs. lowercase-T trauma, and he gave a good answer to that as well. So...he also knows I'm knowledgeable about therapy and isn't like "run away!" Dr. T seemed threatened at times about how knowledgeable I am about therapy, saying how it seems like I know more than he does about certain things (which...yeah, I really think I do...).
So, will give him a try. Less sure about the T I'm having a brief consult with tomorrow, after looking at her website more. But the other female T who got back to me, thinking I'll do intake with her too. I asked if she'd be willing to do brief phone consult or answer some questions over email first, so waiting to hear back about that. I think I just need to try meeting and seeing what I feel like with them. |
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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
Posts: 19,144
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#13
If Dr. Phil is right (words I never thought I’d say, thanks una) in LT’s thread about her therapy, that our physical environments reflect what’s inside our heads, the inside of my head is scary-organized.
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Writing my way through...
Member Since Feb 2020
Location: In the desert
Posts: 7,218
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#14
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SlumberKitty
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LonesomeTonight
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Introvert Extraordinaire
Member Since Dec 2013
Location: Somewhere
Posts: 2,184
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#15
Random couch question: for those of you with dog crate-training experience, do they usually whine in the beginning of the training? I am trying to ignore her b/c if I let her out now, she's got me.
In her defense, because I know I very badly need to suck it up, I just got her from the shelter today, & I know she is anxious b/c she has no idea where she is or who the heck I am. She also just got spayed today, so I put her in the crate with a bully stick, because she had too much energy for fresh sutures, & I really need to keep her calm tonight. She was a stray, but she hopped in my car right away leaving the shelter & walked in & out of the crate with her new toys. She definitely knew what a couch was, but won't stop jumping up and down (not a suture-friendly maneuver). __________________ "Take me with you, I don't need shoes to follow, Bare feet running with you, Somewhere the rainbow ends, my dear." - Tori Amos |
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Always in This Twilight
Member Since Feb 2015
Location: US
Posts: 20,731
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#16
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underdog is here
Member Since Sep 2011
Location: blank
Posts: 34,723
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#17
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__________________ 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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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
Posts: 19,144
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#18
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unaluna
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Writing my way through...
Member Since Feb 2020
Location: In the desert
Posts: 7,218
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#19
Mine too LT, mine too. Although I think L and I are on track now to tidy it up a bit. She's been pushing me pretty hard lately on stuff and while it's uncomfortable, I kinda wish she'd started a whole hell of a lot sooner than now! I need 'tough t'. (Although maybe I wasn't ready to accept tough t before, and now I am, so here she is.) We're working on a concrete plan for now through the end of the year. I've never had a concrete plan before with her. I wish I had asked for one a long time ago. I was going to ask yesterday but she surprised me by suggesting it before I could say it. |
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Child of a lesser god
Member Since Jun 2015
Location: Tartarus
Posts: 19,144
(SuperPoster!)
8 12.4k hugs
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#20
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SlumberKitty
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