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

Wheeeeeee - knowledge is power! Love the animal pics.

Hey, want to see more? I have a bazillion animal photos on my computer.

This is my kittie, Paxil. We adopted her right after we got the news that my dad had end stage cancer, so Pax's job in life was to keep me from being too depressed. She's quite good at it.

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ETA: Everyone else is going to be sorry Trinity showed me how to do that. LOL!

I'm bi, Sea. I ID'd as a boi for awhile. I liked being androgynous. I was really thin, had short hair, and had no boobs, so could pass as a boi (think Shane from the L Word). I've gained too much weight and have too many curves (including D-cups). I'd just look silly now!

Hello everyone. Y'all seem to be in a good mood. I am too, for the most part. My birthday is tomorrow and I'm going to be 35. I've never been bothered by "being" a particular age, but 35 bothers me. Anybody else ever have trouble with a milestone birthday?

Pictures suck

Had to go google "boi." LOL. Lola, I'm more butch than you and I'm straight.

The only one I ever really had trouble with was 29. When I hit that one, I realized that all the things I thought I'd have in my life by the time I was 30 (like a fabulous job, a husband, kids, dog, house with a white picket fence) weren't going to happen, at least when I thought they would. I panicked and went into a funk that lasted a few weeks.

Those were things I'd thought about since I was a little kid, but I'd never really sat down and made specific goals for my life, based on what I actually wanted. I got out of the funk by doing that.

After that, no milestone birthday has bothered me much (and I'm in my 50s, so I've had a few).

i said SOFT butch at best, my GF is a girlie girl...so next to her anyone is BUTCH....LOL @ you googlin BOI...LOL

Its also a state of mind too...not just Physical appearance

Indeed, it really is a state of mind. And Lola, I am so jealous of your girlie girl. I want one!

I love learning, dont you? lol.

And yep, I'm just a sweet single boi.

awww a birdie!!!!!

Chopin I'll be 39 and I am freaking out... Sorry no help

Sea- girl girls can also be a pain in the ***. My partner was straight when I met her.

Trinity- its a large outdoor cage you walk in and they fly around u... You feed then food off Popsicle sticks

a cage you can walk around in? thats so cool!!! wish we could come feed the birdies,some of the younger ones inside love to do things like that

You know what they say, you're only straight until you're not!

My ex was a beautiful drama queen requiring LOTS of attention so yeah, I hear ya.....lol. But oh how I want to be miserable again...

If your ever in Texas look me up

we arent too far away in florida

39's a nice age

I can't really help either, because I've never freaked out about my age - yet. The same week I turned 30 I discovered my first grey hair, and I was absolutely thrilled. Maybe this comes from always being younger than everybody else

Chopin-for me 25 and 30 were really hard ages for me to accept. I remember being in Vegas with my H on my 25th birthday (we weren't married at that time-just dating) and even though we were on vacation I woke up miserable that day. Not sure why that was.

30 was hard because I woke up and realized that I wasted my life away by not getting an education, never making friends, never dating much and being to scared to take risks and keeping myself in situations that only provided a sense of safety for me.

Sorry to interrupt everyones happy chatter but i just came back from my last DBT group.

Well, that's it. That was the last straw. I quit. I always felt like a number there, like no one ever saw me. I was invisible. Today I realized it wasn't just me, the guy treats everyone like that. He mixed up two people with similar sounding names and didn't notice that one of them wasn't there today which for her is really unusual. I confronted him about it and said I've only been to this class 3 times and even I know everyone's name and I noticed that so-and-so was absent today. I said I don't think you actually see any of us. We are just numbers to you. I'm sick of feeling treated like I'm invisible. It replicates patterns from my childhood and it's not healthy for me. So I'm done. Thanks but no thanks.

The DBT experiment was a colossal waste of money for me. But I really do think it was just this center and the people who run it, not DBT itself.

I feel the need to have a good cry!

P.s. I experimented with being a boi in my early 20s. I was a boi-toy for this hot graduate student student from Cuba. She paraded me around with her and her boyfriends. It was a lot of fun!

BOI...I had to look it up too.

Can I be a hetero boi???? Guess I am stuck with being called a Tom-Boy...

All the animal pics are cute. What is it about us crazy folks and our animals?
Lola, you're gorgeous honey...love the bird too.

BTW: PDOC rocked. I am in such a good mood, gotta make a post about it.

WHOOOO-HOOOOO wikid, glad to hear it!

BOIS RULE!

Lillie I am sorry you had a bad experience but I'm glad you realized it was the group and not the process.

What up with all the crazy pet owning BOI lookin' T patients? Weird, just sayin

Wikid im glad it well. I guess I am tom boy to. I have a boyish look.. Baggy jeans... Short hair.. Tee shirts. No skinny jeans and wedge shoes over here. Love my converse sneakers to.

Lillie-it probably was just that particular center you went to. I did DBT last year and it saved my life.