Welcome to the Couch! People of PC Psychotherapy (Part 2)

I get called "son" sometimes by people who are not paying attention. I am a middle aged women who people mistake for a 12yr old boy.

I am just getting more depressed. It is unusual for me to act this way for this long. Not kust these last couple of days but longer term. Tea is my favorite beverage.

Ouch! How unpleasant for you.

Has something happened to disrupt your routine?

That would be irritating to get called son when it's so incongruent with who you actually are! Ouch indeed.
And I'm sorry you are feeling more depressed too. I wonder what's going on that's causing this to arise? When you think about it, what do you think is going on to bring this up?
Tea is not such a bad way to cope.( And sometimes neither is disconnecting the phones! Quietness for a while can help.)

morning my couch dwelling friends. this mornings tea is apple,lemon pomegranite. no breakfast because i ate breakfast at dennys at 1:00 this morning.diet out the window.my BFF and i accually had a great time it was like nothing was ever wrong.i don't get it maybe it is me and feeling like she hates me and all,reading a lot into nothing.IDK.it was just nice to be together again.

Granite-I'm glad you had a nice time. It's nice to have friends. And have their support.

Stopdog. Sorry you are feeling depressed. Taking time out for you to try to figure out what you need could be a good thing. The quiet can help to an extent.

I go back to work tomorrow after having a full week off and I couldn't be more relieved about it. In tired of sitting in this house and looking at my husband do nothing.

Good morning! I have decided not to sleep another day away.

Granite that's great that you were able to reconnect with ur friend. Sometimes it's easier to put water under the bridge and just move on versus rehashing old stuff. I know I've done this before.

Stopdog - I'm also wondering what has brought on your current mood. Does this have anything to do with the recent quitting and subsequent restart of therapy? Either way I hope you feel better and that your tea brings you comfort in the interm.

Hello, couch dwellers. Another very tired day. I kind of wish I weren't so tired all the time. I almost fell asleep during the sermon in church, which would have been super embarrassing since I'm in the choir

Mothers Day is not for another two weeks here, but I'm going over to my mum's place anyway this afternoon - to water her flowers while she's away for a week.

And H and I had a good time last night with a good friend from work and her husband, and their adorable sons. I'm not a particularly child-friendly person (unlike H who is very good with children), but some kids are really fun to be around.

I hope everybody will have a good day, in whatever fashion suits you best.

hey dog - so are these depressive behaviors replacing or in addition to your usual coping behaviors? ie can one consider stewing and brewing a step up from SI?
singed, hopefully yours, hanky
p.s. I would have written back last night, but I was running out of gas myself. i'm sorry, I should have at least said good night. i'm kinda just learning manners. T has a rough row to hoe with me sometimes.

The part about sending your dogs away causes me to be really concerned for you. Trying to figure out how to say what I mean to without hugely triggering anyone, but I would have had to have been in a really dark place to send my children and dogs away. I hope that it does not mean for you what it would have meant for me. Take good care, stopdog, and if there is anything we can do to help, please let us know.

Yesterday I went for a walk with my daughter and listened why she listed all the reasons why she hates our house and where we live and why she cannot wait until we move and how her friends' parents are trashing her ability to go hang out with her friends and how every single thing in her life except her brother and me are horrible and awful and . . . I am so so sososososo thankful not to be a teenager! ANGST!

During the walk, I picked a daisy and promptly was bitten on the hand by a spider. My hand started swelling and last night my forearm was swollen and incredibly itchy. This morning the swelling and redness is all gone but my hand itches SO BAD.

Going to my mother in law's in a little while. Going to spend mother's day with someone who actually acts like a mother to me.

hay stop i hope you are ok .please check in if you can ok

I have big problems with forgiveness. I don't ever expect anyone to forgive me, but mostly they do.

Looks like another quiet nite on the couch. Ugh back to work in the morning. Can't stay I like the fact that I still have to get up super early every Monday and Wednesday for physio, but that's the only way I'm gonna get it done.

After a traumatic Mother's Day afternoon, I am curled up in bed with my laptop and my puppy curled up next to me, lying with her head on my arm. My kids are both amazing, although they both suffered some today from my mother and sister's hatred of me, unfortunately. Hankster was right, and abusers are just abusers, and they will take stuff out on my kids verbally even if they don't strike physically anymore. I should not have assumed that they actually cared about my children.

this is why i try very hard to not do holidays at all.mostly my husband and i dont do anything for holidays.in fact most times we leave and go to the casino for the day so no one bothers us at all.we no longer get invited to get togethers because we always said no thanks

got on the scale today and weighed in at 143.8 that is a loss of 2.4 lbs .i didn't think i had at all because of a few hard moments.
tea eggbeaters and 2 slices of turkey bacon for breakfast today.

Congrats Granite on the loss.

MKAC - sorry mothers day ended badly for you. I managed to escape relatively unharmed though it did bring up some memorys.

Not a good start to Monday for me. Over slept my alarm by an hour, ran out of the house to make my Physio appoitment this morning after having mini freak out. Guess I'm not going to work till the afternoon.

a couple of years ago, I was taking 2 buses, uphill on crutches, in the frozen tundra (January and February in Michigan), before the sun came up, to get to my 7:30 a.m. appointments when I sprained my knee - at least the crutches served as ski poles in the snow! my sympathies!

I'm sorry but this just made me laugh really hard, which I so needed this morning. No offense by you remind me of my grandparents telling me how they had to walk to school for miles each way uphill everyday with worn through shoes while we complaineabout such trivial things today. Thanks for putting things in perspective.

honestly, it was 2 buses! and one stop, I swear was like that scene from Fiddler on the Roof, where the 2nd daughter is going off to meet Starsky or Hutch? They were concrete benches, facing west, the moon was setting in a huge sky, the wind was blowing, my @$$ was freezing, i'm wrapped up to my eyebrows with scarves, and I start singing, "Is this the little girl I carried?" it was pretty awesome! then you go into this super modern facility...! life is funny!

hope all is well with everyone, im at home, bad weekend and bad day , bad life....

Good morning, er, almost afternoon, everyone! I'm hoping this week bodes better than the weekend. Got into an awesome fight with my H, dealt with my daughter breaking down about not wanting to go to school, spent Mother's Day with my H's crazy family. Good times.

I'm ready for a good TV distraction. Something that's not too complicated, because I don't think my brain could handle it. H and I started watching Modern Family, and my interest kind of petered out after awhile. Any suggestions?

Hello everyone- MKAC I'm sorry your day was like that for you yesterday.
Lola-I'm glad you checked in. I was sitting on the PC couch yesterday wondering to myself if you were gonna drop in.
StopDog-if your reading-I hope your hanging in there
Granite. Good job on the weight loss!
Hank-your story made me giggle-I'm sorry if it was not suppose to. Don't mean to offend.
Chopin- are you out there? Hi!
TK- I slept through my alarm today to. Errgghh.
Life-how about a Bronx Tale? Great movie.

Hubby has his second hearing tomorrow for work. I think I'm gonna puke.

Rainy day. Sitting at work in my boss' office. Just got a bunch of beg letters ready to mail to local businesses. We're asking for vans for our group homes/day program. More policy numbering to go, a couple of endorsement definitions to write, meh.

Had a pretty good Mother's day with my parents. She disclosed that she broke down when she went to the doctor's office. He made her say, "I need help." Now that she's being treated for depression and high blood pressure, she is happier.

When I get home, I'm going to help H get ready to see T tomorrow. He said he had no clue what to say and I was going to need to prompt him. I told him I would help him figure out how to maximize his 60 minutes.

Hope everyone is well!

Once you help your H-he will get the idea. Just remind him that there is no right or wrong way when it comes to therapy. Your T will help guide him thru the appt as well. She will ask the questions needed to arrive at an answer.

I desperately need to see my T soon. What they worked out is still too much money for me to afford it. I need my insurance back. In order for that to happen-my husbands needs his job back. I'm going to continue packing my condo when I get home.