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Old Dec 19, 2022, 03:37 PM
*Beth* *Beth* is offline
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Originally Posted by Blue_Bird View Post
How long have you been seeing your therapist? I finally started bringing this stuff up now with my current therapist of almost 7 years. It took me a long time to decide to talk about it because I never felt it was relevant. But I feel like she is good and a good person to talk to about it because I've been seeing her so long and I really trust her.

My cats love the wand toys, search cat wand toys on amazon or chewy. It's like a stick with a string and feathers or toys hanging off the end. You just kind of swing it around and the cats love to chase it. It makes me get more active too because I have to get up and walk around with it to play with them.

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Well, I've been seeing her for almost 5 years, but she's been absent so much for health problems (I know they're genuine, but ) and sometimes family issues (seems she has a lot of those) so if I add it all up, I'd say we've actually been in therapy for 3 1/2 years. The inconsistency is terrible, so stressful for me that in the first month of our therapy I was in a manic episode, she got sick, I had a breakdown, and that was when I was taken by the cops (not at all kindly) to IP. That time she was out for a full 3 months.

Add her absences to her very bad memory (she takes loads of notes; I don't know why). She has confused me with other clients on occasion, and thought someone in my life had passed who had not, at all, which was quite awkward.

I began talking with her about my trauma issues quite early on...maybe 6 months in. She was very supportive. I just

Thank you for the toy ideas!
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