Couch 90 - nine tee - not nine teen.

I'm far from an internet expert but when I was job hunting and answering a lot of CL ads this happened to me. I was using a separate email address just for job hunting but it still scared me. The job lab I was using told me to change my password but other than that didn't seem concerned.

A couple of times I got emails from people I know which were obviously fake, where someone had hacked into their account. I think they just changed their password. I know someone who changed her account after friends started getting these emails but I don't know if that was necessary.

I just added to the muddle, didn't I? {smile}

If your major therapy (okay, life) issue was shaming- bullying as a young teen by classmates for a couple years, which forum other than this one would you go to?

I just want to thank couch and PC in general. I came here afraid that I wouldn't fit in, that I would be the unwanted outsider. Instead I'm starting to feel like I belong.

Thanks much you who "hugged" me on so many of my posts when I was most insecure, and the many you who responded to posts of mine through agrees, hugs and words, thank you who got angry with a post of mine without globally disliking me showing me that ruptures can be repaired irl, thanks to everyone for starting threads, responding to threads, being open, taking risks, agreeing and disagreeing, and thank you to you who allowed and allows me to respond to you and vice versa, warts to warts and beauty to beauty. And even mundane to mundane.

None of this is completely new of course, but here on an online forum that is in large part about feelings, combined with my own timing, this is...I don't know...it has power. So yeah.

And, to be clear, I'm more secure than when I came on here. So no eggshells, critical feedback for anything I write is fine. (Although, kindness is always a good thing, for everyone, ya know?) ;-)

I just signed up to spend 5 bucks a month on phone parental controls so i dont have to go nuts every 3 months wondering WHEN EXACTLY the phone company is gonna run its blocking software renewal program, because last quarter it did NOT do it in a timely manner and a ball-breaking call got through. I spend at least that much on cupcakes!! So maybe i better cut out the cupcakes. I am feeling more secure now that i have that taken care of. More like i am taking care of myself. Being proactive.

Ragsnfeathers, i really appreciate that you seem to get my weird humor!! But yeah i agree - the couch seems to me like a protective bubble i carry around with myself. My community. Or as dr phil says, my soft place to land. He means your family, but oh well.

It's nice that you find the place supportive, rags. It seems strange that you only joined in February - to me it feels like you've been here much longer.

Family comes in all kinds of ways, shapes & forms, as I've been learning!

*settles on the couch*

This forum currently brings out the worst in me; I'm doing pretty well in general but I always feel worse (invisible, stupid, worthless, hexagonal peg surrounded by pentagonal holes) when I have been on here, and I become aggressive in a way that makes me hate myself very much indeed. I know that many people here (not on the couch necessarily, but on the boards) don't like me much, but I can assure you that I dislike myself more than all of those people put together. So I'll stay away for a bit. Not removing my account, just taking a break.

I understand this, I think.

I am pretty much this way with all interpersonal communication. I have this issue here, social media accounts, even texting friends. I am hugely insecure these days. I step back when I need to. I stop posting for as long as I need to get myself balanced again. It seems to help.

(((Mastodon)))
Please don't stay away too long! You'll be missed on the couch.

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I'm not aware of the particular thread you're referring to, Mast (there's more unread than read threads on the front page for me), but I'm sorry you're feeling badly. If someone doesn't like you here, that's truly unfortunate. There's some members who I often disagree with in my head, but to give them a hard time seems like an unnecessary waste of time and effort. Your voice here is just as valuable as anyone else's, and your perspective is always welcome and often thought-provoking. Regardless of whether or not you take a break, there's plenty of us here who look forward to reading what you have to say.

I don't know what is going on, but I am in a sinus infection head cold fog. Breaks can be useful.

I don't think there is anything wrong with using this site as a place to work through negative experiences with a therapist or therapy.
I also don't see a negativity problem nor do I think most of the stuff on here is negative. Just giving different viewpoints or experiences is not negative in my opinion nor is pointing out areas where client's might exercise caution when interacting with those people and that everything is not the client's fault.
I have not been back to the thread I started about positive experiences, but it does seem that people are posting on it and I assume they are posting non-awful interactions.

If people leave i mean not just take a break, i will have nothing interesting to read and my life is currently boring enough, the couch saves me everyday.
Work stopdog said.

I have been sleeping about 20 hours a day this weekend. I am now at the aches and chills and fever stage of the cold.

Do you all take photographs? I always forget I have a camera on the phone. I think I have taken about 10 pictures all year and they were all of pets.

Beware we get a new puppy in 2 weeks time and i will flood the couch with cute puppyhood.

If i can ever work out how to post pics on here properly

How exciting! What kind? Can't wait to see the puppy pictures.

A tri colour cavalier king charles, hes so cute. He will be my daughters but i have part ownership when they go to their fathers. Squeee

I never have figured out how to post pictures here. I think I managed to do it once or twice - but I can't do it with any consistency from my mac. I think it was easier for me from my pc.

Oh, those are gorgeous dogs! Can't wait!

How old will the puppy be when you get it?

He is the runt of the litter and will be around 10-12 weeks old

When i post pics from my ipad they appear to be upside down but right themselves whan clicked on.

I have seen pictures of that breed and seen them on tv (westminster dog show) but I have never been around them in person that I recall.