Couch 48 - All are Welcome - really!

WOW! I just got an email that totally made my day!

I took my daughter and her friend to a township event a couple weeks ago, and we entered a drawing to win a $75 mall gift card. AND I WON!!!!

All I keep thinking is, sometimes good things DO happen to good people!

Hi Granite... didn't see where you wrote more about your session....

don't think I saw you on PC this morning...
are you still feeling okay about it now? I know sometimes our minds twist things around on us by the next day.... remember if that is happening to you that you can call your T...that is why she changed your day so she would be available the next day.

I'm here, hey granite and RS

While I am happy to hear your good fortune, I am concerned about your
hyper-exclamation pointitus.

ACK. I didn't even notice that, SD. Pretty sad, considering I was so mindful of it only moments before. *sigh*

I don't think I have used 6 exclamation points in my entire life. We are definitely the entries on either side of the exclamation point syndrome scale.

I honestly don't think I can go without using exclamation points. It's like a disease.

Do you think we can still co-exist on the same forum? Or is it too triggery?

It's gonna be 2 weeks before next T session because I have a busy week and so does T. Meanwhile I am still doing worse than before I decided I need T. lol. And all this talking about stuff has me thinking way too much. The ugliness of my life is starting to show and I kind of grew attached to ignorant bliss. I know it will all be okay in the end. But damnit. Spring just started and I wanna be super happy instead of in my head.

I think we can peacefully coexist. Punctuation harmony and all.

AWESOME, SD!!!!!!!

(OK, that was just me being a nudge. Sorry! Oops, did it again. Sorry.)

Oh, I hear ya, Lemon....I have learned that therapy stirs up so much stuff that I tend to feel much, much worse before I start to feel better. Hang in there. Honestly, I don't know how I would've survived these years without PC. It's a grueling process.

i have tried to write about it so many times but then i just cant seem to deal with the memories around it . it is kind of strange ill be writing and my head floods with memories that are new about the mother doing homework with me and other things and i have to stop. it isn't a big deal i just don't seem to be able to do it right now. but i have to say my T was awesome about it all. honestly i can write bunches about my T and my session but it would be little about the feelings that are hounding me because i cant much get a handle on those ,so i am just trying to let it be what it is .maybe i will be able to write about it later

I would vote for you! the dsm definitely needs some revising!

A grueling process indeed!!

I hope the punctuation harmony extends to my frequent use of "?!?!?!!!!????!!!!!" The scary thing is that I'm a writer and I still insist upon doing that. Sometimes it just speaks. You know?! ha there I go again.

T in about 2 hours. Will I pick a fight with her? I still want to. I hope I don't. I sent her my poem.

Why am I spamming the couch? Somebody tell me to stop spamming the couch. LOL

I'm not going to tell you to stop spamming the couch, cuz that would mean that I'd have to stop spamming the couch on occasion....LOL

Good luck at your T session. <--- Should be an exclamation point, but am refraining. LOL.

I think I am being oppressed by punctuation.

Couch spamming is perfectly acceptable.

Sorry SD. I'm just an overly emotional introspective intuitive who is not in control of her punctuation. ha.

(look ma no exclamation points!) (oops)

not trying to pick on ya SD just teasing hope you know that

soooooo, stopdog, are ALL punctuation marks oppressive? What about my emphatic all caps thing I do sometimes when I think I am making a point? Or when I am just randomly weird? What if a person were talking to you in real life and you could just hear the exclamation point in their voice? Is that still bad?

i'm off on Wednesdays now so I get to play on the couch all day long iffn I wanna! wheee!

I am going to be weird and answer this for real (and this is in terms of real life - not here on the forums where I was just playing):
I would not call it bad - just over the top. Like using a samurai sword to stab a cocktail wienie.
I think most exclamation marks are mis-used when used for minor, non emphatic reasons which I think defeats the purpose of having such punctuation to mark something significant - over use of the punctuation mark devalues it.
I find some people overly exclamation - mark like in tone of voice too. Again - is it really the same level of excitement for everything? How does one distinguish between - "I had a twinkie for lunch" and "The river is flooded and washed away the elementary school." If both get the same exclamation mark (assuming there is not more behind the twinkie thing).
But I am an unemotional vulcan robot, and I only consider emotion proper in small contained amounts. Most things do not evoke an exclamation mark's worth of emotion in me and when I see them I think something must be super important to warrant such response. I also think they are hard to read (like emoticons - they break up a paragraph too much and make them harder to read). So it is probably just me.

Here is one rationale for the other side:
Several studies have shown that women use exclamation marks more than men do, and one study suggests that, in addition to other usage, exclamation points may also function as markers of friendly interaction, for example, by making "Hi!" or "Good luck!" seem friendlier than simply "Hi." or "Good luck."
I seem to be in the minority in not finding exclamation points friendlier. I think they are often a club (see earlier reference to me being a vulcan zombie).

I know - I was playing with you too.

I am an unemotional, non-introspective, intuition-free, introvert who has an exceptionally tight rein on her punctuation.