Couch 129: The Semiprime Couch

Having a sick pet is the scariest. Try to remember that stress in a pet is probably totally unrelated to your anxiety. Has anything changed in the house lately? Or the routine? My cat stops eating, for example, if I work late too many night in a row. And sometimes illnesses like that just happen. Who knows why.

I'm glad they gave him meds and I bet he will be back to his old self soon!

the only things i can think of are that my roommates husband moved in (but toby knew him prior to his move in) and that i changed my work schedule a little so that now i work 3 days in a row, which was different from my last schedule

Have you tried Feliway? I use a plug in when there's fireworks or something that stresses my cat out and it works really well.

Having a new person living there could maybe cause stress? I hope your cat gets better soon--glad it doesn't sound like something really serious, but still scary.

Yeah..I wish he could tell me...tell my why he's so stressed!!

Well...as I predicted months ago, I am DBC's third rupture.

You need a cat T!

Ugh, sorry, @@. Do you think it's fixable? (I know it can be hard to tell right when it first happens.)

No idea if I even want to. She tried to suggest I might consider I had x mental disorder, but every reason she offered didn't fit. (It's a disorder I once wondered myself if I had, so I'm actually pretty familiar with the symptoms.)

I barely restrained myself from swearing at her. I didn't restrain myself from throwing a stuffed animal across the room, or walking out on her. In retrospect, I wish I had punched the door.

Junkdna hope you Toby gets better soon.

I wonder what is going to happen in the next week. My yard is swarming with ants carrying eggs, pupae and food more than one type of ant too

That's awfully early for her to even consider a diagnosis, especially given the stress you're under with the soon to be future ex. My therapist once told me they can't accurately diagnose while someone is in crisis or fresh out of trauma. You're still in yours.

ATAT-sorry about your session with DBC today-that sucks the big one. The least she could do is give you some space then contact you to discuss it. She owes you that much. Where does she get off suggesting a diagnosis this early in the game? If I was there I would have punched the door for you and since I talk like a truck driver at times, I would've also told her to F off and go get laid.

And, change her Depends while she's at it.

Exactly.

Either tsunami, or trump is coming to visit.

I've been in bed since 6:30pm EST. My whole body hurts from head to toe. Right before I got in bed I took 2miligrams of Klonopin. Why in the world am I not sleeping yet. Looks like I've built a tolerance and now should probably wean myself off. There is no way in h e l l that Pdoc will up the dose on that. Wellbutrin doesn't do anything either. I swear I felt better when I took 5HTP for mood support, Valerian Root to ease anxiety, drank camomile tea and took melentonin to sleep. Also what is the point of showering before work when all I'm going to do is sit on the floor all day entertaining infants and then get breast milk spit up on me. I shower so my people don't think they hired a dirt bag. Only to come home and need to shower again. Can't smell and be overweight. If I can't lose any weight-the least I could do is smell good and brush my hair. I hate those doctors for what they did to my body. It's so unnatural. Rant over.

Have a good day/Afternoon/evening depending on your time zone. I'm gonna take my face out of my phone for the night and think about what I want out of my new T that I start with Wednesday. I know everything I don't want. Now I just gotta figure out what I want. See you tomorrow after work couch peeps. Hugs, hand shakes or head nods to those who want/need them.

Eating Nutella by placing one's finger directly in the jar is (if possible) significantly more addictive than eating in the usual civilized way with a spoon. Sigh.

With me I tank it is an infantile thing, I enjoy the sucking of the finger more I think. I don't eat Nutella but I do run across your Fluff stuff occasionallyy

JunkDNA, your cat may be stressed because he is sick. I hope the treatment makes him feel better.

It is raining and I need to go out to view a unit this afternoon. I have a hole inmy only pair of runners

Had a rather rough session with my marriage counselor today, dealing with an e-mail I'd sent last week that was mostly about the weirdness of the therapeutic relationship and how it can be difficult for me (stemming from the fact that he wasn't going to tell us about his wife's passing a month ago). He kept emphasizing the "professional relationship," how he cared about all his patients equally, how none were more special than the other, etc. I was pretty distraught after session, texted him, and asked if he could call at some point in the next few days. Talked with H about it in the meantime, as MC had suggested during session.

Then MC called on his way home from work tonight, and we talked for about 25 minutes. I think I just needed to know he understood what was bothering me and why. And he seemed to get it. I feel much better about things now. H and I talked about the content of the conversation, too. I think a lot of it was just that he took the time to call and seemed to really listen to me, even if he didn't quite understand what I was getting at initially. So right after session I was almost ready to walk away, but the phone call made me realize that we can still work things out. And hopefully work through the whole attachment thing (whether through T and/or MC). Because as MC said in session today, the attachment isn't all about him as a person. There's other stuff there, and if I just run away, that stuff will still be there. But if I can work through it, then I can resolve it, and make the stuff go away. So...that's what I'm working toward, both with him and T. I just hope all the emotional pain is worth it in the end if/when I come out on the other side.

Yeah..maybe. I just love him so much. He is my best friend.

Aww...I want to reach out and pet the screen!