Welcome to the Couch! People of PC Psychotherapy (All Welcome Part 3)

I'm at work and I just feel like crying. My friend suggested maybe that's why I've been having so much trouble sleeping but I didn't feel like crying yesterday when she said that. Now I do. But now I can't. Well at least I only have half an hour left. Save a seat for me? One of the back ones where I can throw the curtain on top of me. in addition to my usual blanket of course

I made blackberry jam tonight and I love the sound of the little jar lids popping as they seal. I also have two pies in the oven. Trying to cheer myself up and convince myself I am not completely useless.

Thanks CE but I have no intention of practicing, especially not there.

ooh blackberry jam! my favorite! (well, strawberry too) If you give me some, MKAC, I promise not to drop any on Lola's nice sofa cushions!

I just got back from a meditation/yoga class I've been meaning to go to. It was mostly good. I used to do yoga at my gym, but of course that was more for strength. This was a bit woo-woo for my taste but at this point I'll try anything to get through the pain. I kept an open mind and I do think I felt the energy and the meridians and the blocked pressure points. I can go back Thursday for another class and then a workshop.

I'm considering buying a one-month membership but it's kind of expensive. $150. That's the cost of one 50 minute session with my therapist and I think it may be very helpful to me. I don't think it would be wasted. I could go to as many classes as I want to then. What do y'all think? It's called Dahn yoga (the type of yoga apparently) and it's from Korea. On Thursdays they incorporate some Tai Chi. I've never done Tai Chi.

I don't know if this is worth it or if I should look around at other yoga studios as well. This one definitely has more of a focus on healing. In fact it's called the Yoga and Healing Center. I'm okay with taking what I can from it and skipping over the parts that are too woo-woo for me (like the brain vibrations stuff).

Anyone have any advice/opinions on this?

p.s. @Silent_tsol why do you feel like crying? come sit by me and MKAC and have some jam. :-)

Good grief.

We don't have this sort of nonsense in our Socialist Paradise.

we have never done yoga but if you feel it would benefit you and its in your budget then we say go for it♥♥♥ we all for doing things to help feel good

What's up?

May i have a piece of your pie? It sounds so yummy. i will bring some tea and we can have it hot or cold with milk or lemon...just let me know.

just feeling very badly depressed,been a bad day and we feel frozen and stuck so if we hide we wont be a bother to anyone-thank you for askiing♥♥♥

Im huddling in the corner of the couch under a blanket... Good session, too much flooding back at once ... Trying to stay in the now ... That was all then huh, hiding the jack and Xanax under blanket

Lillylillie, Thank you for writing i was not too vile to be around. i have never made jam before but i like jam...strawberry, blackberry, raspberry, and boysenberry. Here is a friendly hug as a thank you for helping us feel better with your kind words.

Lillie-when I used to go to my T she told me about savaroopa yoga which is more about healing and mindfulness than the poses. I never actually got around to trying it though.

MKAC-you are not useless. No convincing needed.
Lola-go easy on yourself. You deserve some peace.
Trinity-I hope you feel better soon.

I'm in and out of sleep. Good night folks. Or whatever time it is for you. For me it's 10:40 pm and I have to be at work by 7am.

Finally home after a really long day that started with discovering water leaked into the basement and ended with someone throwing a fit when I didn't fold their table cloth correctly. I brought my wine and melatonin to the couch and have Big Bang Theory reruns on. MKAC - is there still some jam? Can I have a spoonful?

Night trinity .. I'm an hour behind you but jackanax has me very tired

Well, I popped in to say "hey", but I guess I'll say "good night" instead. I'm still out of town; having a pretty good time with my coworker. We are both very tired though. The training itself is sort of boring, but there have been very important things to learn. There were a couple of examples of individuals served that reminded me of myself or anyone else on this forum.

We are supposed to take some of the things we learned today and apply them to our own lives. As a service provider who has mental illness myself, I think that might be a bit interesting. I may figure out some good strategies for myself, or I may be able to share some of my story with more people. I couldn't resist emailing T this evening about telling my coworker my story. I haven't heard back, but I don't really expect to and that's okay. I see her Thursday anyway!

Everyone have a great night!

There are nine half-pints of jam in nice jars to give away. A small bowl to give to my mother in law, and a half of a large mixing bowl for the family (because I was too freaking lazy to put it in jars when I know that my son is going to eat huge amounts. There are also two blackberry cream pies with a crunchy brown sugar butter topping. So, plenty for everyone.

wish we could have some,the cravings for sugar are through the roof but thankfully we have nothing in the room that remotely has sugar in it so we will vicariously enjoy instead♥

A friend of mine suggested considering a date with a coworker of ours. I suspect the idea was a mission planted by him wish upset me because the way it played out was EXACTLY the set up of the bf I just broke up with (the one with birthday last weekend). It just made me sad because coworker isn't him. I don't think I'm really in any date-able zone right now. And by right now I potentially mean forever.

I'll trade some cat cuddles for melatonin and jam. Can't seem to sleep without that stuff lately - the melatonin that is.

MKAC - seeing as I'm full of energy and going to have a long nite before I have to get up at 6am, pie sounds awesome!

TD - you can do it

Chopin - I'm interested in hearing about what you learnt. I hope you plan to make a thread on it

Silent - sorry your in a rough spot right now. If your not ready your not ready and thats fine.

I've finally got a moment to bring my kittehs to the couch




The last one is her showing what she'll do when one of us gets up to keep our spots warm. She's very good at that

I wasn't thinking about doing a thread about my training, but I certainly could. It is called "Person Centered Thinking" and is geared toward agencies who provide services to MH/DD/SAS. Most of us are QP's and Case Managers, but there was a parent of a man with DD and two provisionally-licensed therapists. It will probably be more interesting after tomorrow's exercises utilizing our own lives.

Yesterday was a wonderful day. T in the morning - OK, not wonderful exactly, partly quite painful in fact, but productive. The session left me with a lot of things to think about. Then a long lunch with supportive friend who patiently allowed me to process a few of the things I'd discussed with T. I'm incredibly lucky to know people like that. Got some very necessary work done in the afternoon. In the evening I was going to a pub with a couple of colleagues who wanted to take me out before I leave my current workplace. When we got to the pub it transpired that they'd asked a lot of people from work to come along, for a surprise farewell do for me - you could have bowled me over with a banana peel when I saw them all there! It was nothing fancy, no speeches or things like that, which would just have made me embarrassed. It was just so nice that all those people wanted to come along, and I had such a good time. I'm still feeling really great.

morning everyone i hope you are all well

g'mornin' couch peeps. I just read the today's Therapy Tales and found it amusing.
Lola, I hope your ok, I don't like the sound of Jackanax.
Lilly, the yoga sounds great. We have a group that meets on the beach near me in the mornings and I have been trying to get myself to go.

I have to leave the house today, I don't do that too much. Need to do some stuff for Mother. ick. Then I will be caring for a 2 yr old this afternoon.

I found out that there is a local psychiatric survivors group. They had a meeting yesterday. I wanted to go so badly, I could really use some peer support right now. But I couldn't get myself to go, such a huge fear of meeting new people.

H invited some old friends to come use the studio this weekend. I haven't seen them in years, and I am freaking out about it. What will they think of me? I just want to go hide somewhere.

Morning Granite! I didn't see you there. Do you have T today, or is she still away?