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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:02 PM
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My H has always considered my dreams to be an excruciatingly boring topic of conversation. It feels weird that my T wants to know them. I feel funny telling her them.
My H finds my dreams boring too. But I do a lot of dream work with my t, and at first it felt kinda weird talking about my dreams with her, but didn't take long to get used to it because she never acts bored with them or judging of them or anything. I have done some really good work via working with my dreams. The first things she taught me were to keep a notebook & pen by my bed and record every little scrap of dream I remember, and to write them in present tense, and always talk about them in present tense, as if they are happening while you are talking about them. It took me a little practice to get use to telling them in present tense but it's habit now. She taught me Active Imagination, where you go back into a dream while you're awake and purposely interact with things/people in the dream in your imagination. I've gotten some awesome insights that way. I usually do my Active Imag's sitting at my computer with my eyes closed so I can type what I'm imagining. And I share those with my t, too. Dream work has been very helpful for me!!

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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:10 PM
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'Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo"
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:26 PM
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It's so tempting......
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:29 PM
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'Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo"


I just started a beginner's French class at a nearby community center, and it is très difficile! Haven't tried learning a language since the Clinton administration (i.e. high school). I think the piece of my brain dedicated to language acquisition is broken.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:36 PM
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I think the piece of my brain dedicated to language acquisition is broken.
Also the pieces dedicated to cultivating healthy relationships, being emotionally stable, and believing in myself and my capabilities. Oy vey.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:49 PM
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Well, great minds and all that...

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The unanimity line is from the Mikado.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:52 PM
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I presume it was about the alleged unexplainability of the aforementioned panic attacks and hyperventilation. They both stipulated? (I've never been able to use that word in a sentence in my life, its fun! ) i would not want a t with the cahooties
They did not stipulate but they did postulate the same theory. And they both insisted it was not a remote, improbably if not impossible theory as I believe.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:55 PM
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'Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo"
Huh???????
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 08:55 PM
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It's scary when that happens. Just remember: they are both wrong.

Indeed. But I thought better of the second one.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 09:01 PM
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I remember watching the Mikado with my dad when I was about 10 or so... I've only seen bits and pieces of it since. When I have internet again I swear I'm sitting down and watching the whole thing.

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Old Jan 23, 2015, 09:02 PM
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Indeed. But I thought better of the second one.

They all let you down eventually. *Sigh

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Old Jan 23, 2015, 09:11 PM
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I just started a beginner's French class at a nearby community center, and it is très difficile! Haven't tried learning a language since the Clinton administration (i.e. high school). I think the piece of my brain dedicated to language acquisition is broken.
Thank weird al and his pastiche of Bob Dylan
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 09:21 PM
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Indeed. But I thought better of the second one.

You definitely don't want to know why my panic attacks stopped. If you do ever deign to consider their theory, I will mention that it helped me. Which certainly does not mean that you need to embrace or even consider it.

It wasn't a fun change. I REALLY liked being a needless wonder, immune to the weaker emotions that plagued "others". I am still that person, sometimes. It's a very comfortable fit. I think the turning point for me was inwardly admitting that I was kind of ignoring anything that didn't fit my version of the truth. That REALLY sucked. I mean REALLY. It's still kind of awful, but better than being at the mercy of panic attacks.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 09:25 PM
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I have emotion, I just don't think that the situation is all that stressful. It may be that it could be considered the situation is less fun and all, but that doesn't equal stressful. The therapists seem to think that it is somewhat slightly quite stressful. In extreme cahootery, they both mentioned the C word and asked if I ever did it. I am not not doing it intentionally. It simply has not come up. I am not at the point of being at the mercy of the panic attacks, I simply endure them. They are bearable, just sometimes a bit less than pleasant.

A warlord who shoots people in the face, what's so scary about that?


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Turn it Off Like A Lightswitch


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Old Jan 23, 2015, 09:54 PM
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I ate some yogurt.

I want more food.

*nomnomnomnom*
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 10:07 PM
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Everybody shut up about the food I'm having serious Zyprexa munchies.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:04 PM
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Stopdog have are you familiar with Thomas Szasz? I am watching an interview video for school. He just said some things about the arrogance involved in psychiatry thinking it knows what is best for someone's life. It made me think of you.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:08 PM
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Also the pieces dedicated to cultivating healthy relationships, being emotionally stable, and believing in myself and my capabilities. Oy vey.
Well youre in luck cuz we speak the french here and also yiddish. eta - the rest, fuggeddaboudit.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:10 PM
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So glad it's the weekend! Busy week at work, I'm on a special project again and it's kinda stressful because the people I'm talking to are mostly finding out that their medications are being denied coverage by their insurance plans. So far I'm doing pretty well not taking it personally when they yell and scream at me and calmly continue attempting to explain their next steps. But it's wearing me out, on top of this yucky cold I have. Haven't been sleeping too well and haven't remembered any dreams since the night of 1/16 and that's way unusual for me. I think perhaps I am going to sleep half the weekend away.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:18 PM
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I am goig to rant about my ex. I went to pick him up at the airport because thats what the text said. We are waiting at the airport when he saends another text sayingboarding NOW see you at 4pm Now we had to drive home and wait AGAIN.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:23 PM
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I should be feeling something right now... Fear, sadness... Something. Instead it's nothing. I'm afraid this is the calm before the storm.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:23 PM
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Artie, they lie!! My insurance company sent me a letter in october warning me they werent gonna cover a med anymore. Okay maybe theyre not lying, but i hate to open my mail and i still saw it. But the customer is always right, right? Even when they are lying liars lyington. Ok Im still a little mad my ins co called me old in the stupid letter.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:25 PM
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I am goig to rant about my ex. I went to pick him up at the airport because thats what the text said. We are waiting at the airport when he saends another text sayingboarding NOW see you at 4pm Now we had to drive home and wait AGAIN.
No good deed goes unpunished. What a butt. Hope you dont mind me borrowing your h to call a butt. I need a bf.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:29 PM
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I ate some yogurt.

I want more food.

*nomnomnomnom*
I put some sf ff choc pudding powder in some greek yogurt. It made it pretty much like frozen yogurt or custard ice cream. I think it grew in the bowl though. Maybe ill put some fruit on it next time.
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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:35 PM
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Artie, they lie!! My insurance company sent me a letter in october warning me they werent gonna cover a med anymore. Okay maybe theyre not lying, but i hate to open my mail and i still saw it. But the customer is always right, right? Even when they are lying liars lyington. Ok Im still a little mad my ins co called me old in the stupid letter.
Unfortunately I kinda work for the insurance company - a division of it, anyway -so I know they're not lying....

I love the "lying liars lyington", though!
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