Couch 52 - Are you being served?

Arethusa... is losing weight a normal or expected side effect of Prozac? Do you have a T who understands eating disorders that you could talk to about this?

Yeah it's a side effect of Prozac...
not seeing a therapist at the moment but have been thinking about seeing one soon...

Hi couch friends.
RTS - Thank you for the idea to add labels to fix my sposnor logo issue. It worked! Now we just have 6500 brochures to label...

What? I have not been up on the couch today. I am not mad at you. I don't know what you are talking about. Fine, now I have to go read the past pages to put everything into context.

(I am kidding with you but I really don't know what is going on)

Sconnie I'm so glad it worked out...yeah the manual label thing sucks but many hands make light work... we set up in a conference room and a whole group of people worked together. I certainly hope you will not be doing those on your own.

ETA: I love that your T said you were blooming...

Oh, now I get Hankster.

LC - you could look at it like you are not officially homeless - instead you are in transition.

I won't have to work all on my own. We have volunteers at our reception desk to help thankfully.

T likes to use the flower analogy to show my progress in therapy. It works well.

My session went well tonight. I talked to current T about seeing xT... it went fine. She said she was thought it was a very healing thing to do and she was all smiles... said it was a big step to voluntarily go deal with a potential conflict situation...

we talked a little about the troubles I had with xT. I told her that I thought my fear of being angry with other people led to me being angry with xT because he was the only person I felt safe to be angry at. She said that was healthy and good place to practice but I said it was confusing to me because I didn't know that I was projecting my anger at others onto him and that I couldn't deal with my wildly fluxing feelings for xT along with all my other issues that I was dealing with while talking about the past. I told her about the time that I told xT about an incident from the past and that xT teared up and that I got mad at him and told him that if I wasn't crying he wasn't allowed to either. My T laughed and said that it sounds like we had some interesting sessions...

I told her seeing her made a big difference and that I realized that I don't really trust men. She asked if I thought I would ever want to go back to a male T to work through that ... I said that maybe I would when I have dealt with all my other issues and won the lottery.

We talked about my fear of people being angry or disappointed at me... so now I have a homework assignment... I have to write in my journal...about what could happen if people were disappointed with me or angry at me... I couldn't do it in the office when she asked me to but when I did it in my head in the car ride home from session it took 3 minutes to get to the answer that comes up everytime that is so from my childhood and it pisses me off... I hate that I feel like the same way as I did as a kid....

Sconnie... maybe I missed it... did your test results come back alright?

you can just ignore this if its too personal of a question...

Yeah.. they want me back in 6 months for another squishing session... which i guess in standard practice. I may protest as I question the radiation exposure. Plus it creeps me out that the tech who does the test goes to my church.

Thanks for remembering and asking.

So I got into that thread about movie titles that could be altered to relate to therapy... started looking up movie titles online and found this site. I will never think of these movies the same way again:
Top 100 Movie Titles That Sound Like Pooping

Oh sconnie - I think I just annoyed the whole apartment complex, but that was SO FUNNY!! I started laughing out loud at the talented mr ripley (I love patricia highsmith) and that was it, I was gone. The juxtaposition of titles, old and new intertwined, somehow made it funnier.

Slow day on the couch...

Good morning. I'm on the bus to town and T. Please God let T be helpful today.

Which is a stupid thing to say. I shouldn't go in expecting T to fix things for me. I don't expect that. I just hope he'll be present-and-listening T, not distant T.

I'be just had a lovely fantasy where I demanded that Madame T write me a check for $140.

Good Morning couch. I'm going to a continuing education seminar today so I won't be able to be on the couch today. I will check in later tonight. I hope everyone has a good day.

Good morning, couch peeps.....getting ready to head out to my assignment at a behavior center in a bad neighborhood. EEK. I'm terrified. Why oh why did I agree to do this assignment? T said that with all that's been stirred up for me lately, this is not an ideal place for me to be. *sigh*

Anyway, I don't anticipate being online much today - working for 8 hours then heading straight to group T. Will try to pop in later tonight.

Hope everyone has a good day today.

Morning all...

I came across this on facebook...a while back I think it was MUE who was saying a friend had a baby raccoon in the house, and CL informed you of the dangers of coming into contact with raccoon saliva. Well, a family in RI took in a baby raccoon, and 18 people including 4 children were infected with rabies. Rhode Island family brings rabid raccoon in their home, 18 people affected - National infectious disease | Examiner.com
Even though I have gone thru a lot of training, I still don't handle wild animals that can contract rabies because I have not been vaccinated.
Just a little Public Service Announcement!

I am feeling really crappy today...night sweats, nightmares, panic attacks.

Morning couch.

Well, just popping in before my inservice today. Then it's off to T. Please let me survive the session...now that the day is here I am anxious about it again.

Sconnie, thanks for the movie title thing. I needed a good laugh this morning.

Well, I need to go eat some breakfast before my long day. I'll pop back in when I get home this afternoon.

I hope everyone has a decent day.

Good luck with T squirrel!

Ready, I don't like our continuing ed stuff. Generally it's boring and not helpful and only serves to make me anxious, sitting there thinking about everything else I have to do. Luckily, I've been in compliance for several months already, so I don't have to start thinking about it again for a few months. Does your state allow carry over? We can carry over everything except ethics.

I am sitting here drinking my coffee trying to psych myself up to go do the ab ripper on the P90X. My daughter kept calling last night, so I couldn't do it with H.

My daughter's project partners are panicking at the thought of presenting at a national competition, so they are wanting to change and revise and "improve" everything at the last minute. So far, they have managed to get the display lights NOT to work, have added a multi media portion of the exhibit (taking off what was there before and messing it up) and now the multi media thing won't work, and this morning (they are supposed to present later this morning), the other girl wants to revise the bibliography. My D wrote the progress paper with no help from anyone else in the project, and the other kids decided last night at midnight to revise it and D doesn't particularly like the revisions and thinks they do not improve the paper, mostly because they are last minute changes that may not be well thought out. My D, a very plan ahead kind of kid, is going INSANE. My poor baby. I am still thinking that overall this will be a really valuable experience for her.

Morning couch... off to another 10+ hour day at work.
Won't be back until late evening.
Hope you all have a good day.

Wow mkac...that sounds stressful, especially for a kid who isn't up to par physically. I am a neurotic pre-planner and organizer, I am getting anxious just reading about it. My thoughts are with her and I hope she does well.

I haven't had any continuing ed classes that were of value in recent years. I lost my "bonus" special accreditation last year because I didn't get my classes in. It really bugs me, but it doesn't stop me from specializing...I just hated taking those letters off of my name. lol. grrrr. I'd really like to do some more IT classes, because that's where the business is right now, but I'd have to travel for them. Maybe later this year.

I feel for your D, mkac - she has the right instinct, last-minute changes are usually not a good idea, and having other people revise your stuff at the last minute must be so frustrating. Good luck to her and her group. I hope it goes well for them!

Where is everyone? I am very irritable and stressed. The idiots that bought our home are using a chemical lawn service...which is illegal that close to the ocean. Our old neighbors called and told me horror stories. The neighborhood hates them. I feel guilty, like its my fault and I have to fix things to make nice.