Couch 104 - The Couch Without A Catchy Title

**TW: mild self harm**

A thread where I was invalidated and my opinion and experience was exposed as untrue or irrelevant has recently been resurrected. Reading the first few posts of it now made me smash my fist in the door post for the first time in a long, long time. I get so angry and feel so worthless. I don't think I ever replied in the thread at the time because I was really rather terribly hurt so I just stayed away from PC. I would kind of like to reply now but I guess it's pointless this much later - besides, I would not want to hurt the other person whom I like and admire, and who was in the right. I should not have posted in the first place so if I did I have only myself to blame for the fallout. Never post, Mastodon - at least not about therapy, or your opinions, thoughts or feelings. At least not if they don't agree with those of the real people.

I just hope T doesn't notice that my hand looks a bit injured today. I won't see him for three weeks after this session and there is no lasting harm done to my hand.

Mast, you have a right to your opinions like everyone else. Hope your hand is ok.

Thank you. My hand is not damaged - as I grow older, and as I live with chronic pain which is not getting any better, I try not to be too reckless with those bits that work ok...

Sorry for that outburst - I'm okay, really, and I had a good T session. (And I mentioned the hand. It is a little bruised but doesn't hurt at all so I'm good.)

Im seeing my therapist this afternoon I go every three to four weeks w my therapist . had a rough night last night .I almost cried myself to sleep .

(((Mast)))) I'm sorry this happened to you! I hope you won't leave us again.

Test went well! I was finished within 40 minutes (we were allowed to take 120). The other students I've spoken also think they did well.

If it is the thread I am thinking of, you were not in the wrong. Wish that thread had not been resurrected; too much contention for my tastes. I need to avoid those kinds of threads myself. They just aren't worth the grief for me; too much black and white thinking and too little respect for differing experience and variety of opinion. Just not what I want my PC experience to be.

I hope you'll stick around, but I understand how important self-care is. You've been missed.

The same warning is on children's nighttime cough medicine. I mean, that's the whole reason behind nighttime cough medicine...

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(((Mast)))

Mast I hope you feel better. And everyone has a right to their opinions. What works for one person won't work for someone else. Try to remember that very rarely is one person right and another person wrong when it comes to talking about therapy...

Mast
If it s the thread I'm thinking of, it makes me want to SWEAR IN BIG LETTERS.
Seriously, please use 'I ' statements people

Hope your hand is better now

Eta, i mean people in general, not couchies, obvs

Also, I guess people have very different experiences which will colour their opinion very strongly sometimes. And that's okay. Cos that's what the ignore function is for

Good news! I make $0.35 more at taco bell than they originally told me I would. Yay! Every penny counts these days.
Still dont know when I start at the tax place. However, she is doing her last rapid tax class this week then I should hear something.
Cant wait for the new year to start! Bring it!
Havent finished shopping got a few more to shop for(my nephews). I know what Im getting the one but the youngest(5months) Im stuck.

Mast, I don't know which thread it was. I hope you stick around. There are threads that annoy me and sometimes I've taken a week away. More recently I've just started adding people to my ignore list.

5 hours until T. Been up for 6 already. 4 more hours of work. Today is moving so slow, I want to be on my (her) couch like now would be nice. Sigh. I usually dress "to the nines" everyday but today I'm just wearing my oldest most comfortable sweater, my hair in a pony, and baggy jeans and I don't care. T is going to look at me oddly... Sorry for all the randomness, just need a place to sit for a bit, again.

I too usually dress up (when I'm not at home with the kids) but the last few weeks, I've shown up in hiking boots and pull overs.

I think it's good to have a place to sit and be random. It always amazes me how much random stuff is just floating around in my head. A good bit of my emails to my T are like "Here's an email about all the things I just would like to empty my brain of."

There's something to be said for being comfy.

Oh. I think I found the thread by accident. Nngh.

Mast, that thread made me walk away for about two weeks I was so irritated. I ended up utilizing the ignore function because I was heavily invalidated as well.

((Mast))

Which thread was it? I utilized the Search function, but I couldn't find it.

I sent a PM. I think it's better that way.

HAPPY THINGS. POST PICTURES OF HAPPY THINGS PEOPLE. (Pictures of animals, children, food, and holiday cheer of all forms are welcome).

I don't mind cold as much as I hate the grey.

One of the nice things about being a horse vet is that jeans, fleece, hoodies and barn boots are my work clothes.very comfy. What I always wear to T. Once I had to apologize because a horse peed in my boot ( long story) at the appointment before T and I had no time to go home for different socks/boots. She pretended it was no big deal but she lit all her scented candles....

It was my old dog who was getting the benadryl to conk him out. Vet said it should sedate him but it did not seem to do so