((((((((((Caroline, Kimmy, Zorah, Sarah, Ozzie, Fuzzy)))))))))

Thanks for the ideas and encouragement and for believing in me. Music might be a good common interest. I like to sing and play instruments, and that is theoretically something that requires feeling, although the competent side does take it over. Well, I can think of lots of things that the competent side really dominates that would be better if feeling were allowed to be part of it.

Alone time, or shut-down time really would be nice. I don't get much of that. The closest would be when I stay up past bedtime to work on stuff (usually either my homework from class or writing to T, and sometimes chatting), and I do enjoy that time when I get it, but then husband is mad at me for not going to bed, and I can't wake up on time in the morning, and I get irritable due to sleep deprivation. Sometimes I just need time to think by myself without lots of interruptions though.

This week for class we're on childhood development, along with origins of psychopathology, self-esteem, and parenting, and I have hardly even started on my reading. All of those subjects are likely to be triggery.

I need somebody to freeze time and give me a chance to think and sleep and get caught up.