C O U C H 39 -The Renaissance Period

2 session of the week about to begin! Let's see if it is a productive one!

Ohhhh... This is good stuff, my h and I need to learn this.

It took 2yrs of therapy with 2 different Ts for me and one year of T for H for us to get to this point.

My T gave me this example after I was talking about how its been going and the changes... she asked me how it has impacted my life...

I said well I'm still anxious that I'll ruin it... waiting for the other shoe to drop... and still sort of telling myself to do the opposite of what is my normal/instinct reactions...

she smiled and told me I've grown alot and that it will start to happen without working on it in time..

My W wont see a T and I refuse to take that kind of time to figure this out.... I hope we are quick learners.

Lola- I thought w has started seeing a t?? Did she go and decide it wasn't right for her?

She went 2 times and apparently he told her she was fine.... I'm the lone screw up.

I smell a rat.... no one is perfectly fine... and no good T would be able to figure that out in 2 sessions

doesn't sound like she shared she doesn't have any friends outside of you and your mutual friends... that she relies on you for all of her social outlets... and smothers you with that responsibility...

My talk with my boss went fine. He just asked me not to take off the time in the next two weeks because our nurse is taking the next two weeks off. He and I had a good talk. He really wants me to run with this new position.

He has been working on my performance evaluation, but he's having a hard time developing long term goals for me. My current position is not where I want to be and he knows that. Employees where I work are supposed to have three specific goals to work on over the year and he really doesn't know where I'll be in six months, much less a year. He said it will be completed next week.

Hope everyone is having a good Friday. I hope to work on some paperwork until about 4pm, then I'm going to have a nice weekend with H, darn it!

I am almost positive all she talked about is what a pain she THINKS I am....lol

Hmmmm... ummmm... I think I spent atleast 4 months doing that in regards to my H.

I agree. My brother talked my mom into going after my dad died. She went once. She told me about it much later, bragging that she was fine, the t said so, and that I was the one with the problem. I was like, what did you tell her?? She told me, and I could easily see that the t could easily see that there was nothing to be done with this person - evah!! She's a talker, not a listener. She is not the type to be in therapy. A t is not going to take on someone who does not want to be there.

Here's an idea I'm giving serious consideration.

Spend half my mental health budget on psychotherapy and the other half on retail therapy.

I am not joking.

Could be! I'll look it up.
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Nope. Not match on Google.

How about 1/2 on therapy and 1/2 on kick boxing?

I woke up feeling blue. This has cheered me up no end!
Just what I needed. Thanks!

My mom did that same thing. After one of her many breakdowns, her doctor insisted she be evaluated. The psychologist supposedly said she was fine and completely normal and everything would be fine if we all just treated her better and did what she said.

Ouch! That's a pretty disturbing image.

(Sorry! I mean I am spooked by that image.)

I dont care what he said , I know crazy!

I love you. Seriously.

fleeingbellocq - would it be possible to put a trigger warning or just a link rather than your pictures - particularly like the one of the person tied up.

I have often said things would go better if I were in charge of the world. I need the name of that pysch. person to get everyone else in line.

((Chopin))

I imagine writing a performance evaluation is very hard work.
The last one I had (twenty-five years ago!) felt more like a disciplinary hearing.

Give a bad evaluation and the employee will quit.
Give a good one and they'll expect to be promoted.
Give a neutral one and you waste everyone's time.

It is very difficult to get it right. My current boss (and he's a good boss) doesn't even try.

I'm too old and flabby for that! But I can see how it might appeal to you.

Thanks for this - I didn't like the scary purple guy. I once defriended everybody on facebook because of a) a friend's scary picture and b) my cousin's husband's smiling face! Hey, she married him, I didn't - I don't wanna hafta look at his face every morning!

I checked out therapists on the internet first before I called them to make sure they were not scary looking in their pictures. There are a lot of scary looking ones out there.