[atisketatasket]

Welcome to the couch, old and new! A place to hang out - sometimes you get immediate feedback, sometimes you don't.

Shouting, "Cool Whip" tends to bring others out from between the cushions if you're feeling lonely.

This is a chatty thread. All are welcome. We're kind of psychologically oriented, sometimes. We try to be supportive. At times we discuss what that means.

It’s a place to plop down on the couch when you come home from work or wherever, or wake up in the middle of the night, or check in at lunch, rant a bit or not, and be among friends.

We advise you not to drink or drug and text your therapist ("T") - we speak from experience...

Sometimes the thread moves fast and you might get overlooked; sometimes it moves slowly and all you hear are crickets. Sometimes you get hugged or thanked pages later. So if it's a bigger question, you might want to start a new thread.

Grab a cushion, a spot on the floor, or an armchair in the corner (or with us) and make yourselves comfy!

The title refers to an element called Unhexhexium, atomic number 166, and it seems like lots of us could use some luck or unhexing these days.

Good vibes to all!

(continued from Couch 165: April Showers)

[unaluna]

I dont think this element existed yet when i was in school - seems like i woulda remembered it!

Yay! Thanks for the new couch!

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by unaluna

I dont think this element existed yet when i was in school - seems like i woulda remembered it!

I like its symbol...Uhh.

Also, it might not actually exist. Like the Couch! Or us!

I just wrote two of my last 3 discussion posts for my Positive Psych class. I'm sad that it's coming to an end, because I've really enjoyed it. One more response post to a classmate, then the final, and I'll be done! My summer class starts at the end of next month though, so that's not too far off!

What do you mean the couch and us might not exist insert interrobang here

i just found an idea i had for a short story way back in 2012. i think i'm ready to develop it now...

[atisketatasket]

Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn

What do you mean the couch and us might not exist insert interrobang here

Have you ever seen the Couch?

You know my theory: we’re all a movie happening in una’s dreams.

I am trying to coax myself to sleep by working a half-finished book of vowelless crosswords. They are NFRTNG.

Eta: oh, but I just answered this clue—“Psychotherapist’s own repressed feelings in reaction to the emotions of the patient.” CNTRTRNSFRNC!

Vowelless crosswords sound mpssbl!

i can't sleep either.

[WarmFuzzySocks]

Originally Posted by atisketatasket

I like its symbol...Uhh.

Also, it might not actually exist. Like the Couch! Or us!

The ununhexed couch exists, but only for fractions of milliseconds. Then it turns into something else.

[Lemoncake]

Whether the couch exists or not can be explained by the following:

Cottleston, Cottleston, Cottleston Pie.
A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly.
Ask me a riddle and I reply:
COTTLESTON, COTTLESTON, COTTLESTON PIE.

(From Winnie the Pooh- A.A. Milne)

[Lemoncake]

Originally Posted by ArtieSwimsOn

I just wrote two of my last 3 discussion posts for my Positive Psych class. I'm sad that it's coming to an end, because I've really enjoyed it. One more response post to a classmate, then the final, and I'll be done! My summer class starts at the end of next month though, so that's not too far off!

I'm proud of all of your hard work Art.

[SalingerEsme]

Zzzzzzzz's where are you? Can't sleep. My dogs are asleep though, on the bed, and I love that.

[LostOnTheTrail]

Hi Couch,

I'm a little late in asking, because I'm more than a little keyed up about today's session. It's in half an hour - anybody available to pocket ride?

Thanks,

Lost

[lucozader]

Hope it goes well, Lost.

Cardiologist in just over an hour. P woke me up handing me the missing stone, apparently it was in the bed by his feet. Two minutes later I got a reply from T.

Thanks, universe.

[LostOnTheTrail]

Thanks, Universe indeed. (for looking after my friend.)

So very glad P found it.

[lucozader]

...and I think that means that fille folle wins the Couch Scavenger Hunt 2018 - congrats

[Lemoncake]

Originally Posted by LostOnTheTrail

Hi Couch,

I'm a little late in asking, because I'm more than a little keyed up about today's session. It's in half an hour - anybody available to pocket ride?

Thanks,

Lost

I might have missed you!

[Lemoncake]

Originally Posted by lucozader

Hope it goes well, Lost.

Cardiologist in just over an hour. P woke me up handing me the missing stone, apparently it was in the bed by his feet. Two minutes later I got a reply from T.

Thanks, universe.

Woooooooooooooo! To finding the stone.



I hope your appointment goes well Luc.

Hope you had a good session, Lost. Glad you found the stone, Luco!

[Lemoncake]

I see R on skype when I'm not in London.

Today he was 4 mins late just like on tuesday.

I said if I turned up late twice I wonder what he would say about it. That it was sloppy. That he thought I would put up with anything just because I was attached.

He apologized and said that he did agree with me that it was sloppy.

I know I sound mental as it was just four minutes. I was the youngest part of me.
I couldn't talk but began to cry silently and hid my picture. I didn't talk for maybe 5 mins.

R:"It seems like you're quite prepared to spend the whole session persecuting me, maybe that will bring some relief short term"
S: "I wanted to cut the call but I didn't. It would make no difference I've already paid you."
R:So you feel like the service is not up to standard. Don't get me wrong it's not like you don't have grounds to be upset and I wonder what it would take to get you out of this position. What way can I satisfy you now?
S: Leave me.Just like you said maybe you were being naive maybe the risk to you is greater than you acknowledged. I think you should save yourself.
R: You believe that this incident/event of me being 4 mins late is something risky.
S: No.
R: Well lets put it another way. It sounds like you're threatening me.
S: I'm threatening you?
R: That I better watch out.If I treat you this way then harm may come.
S:Yeah you'll get a petrol bomb because i'm f*****g psycho. Anyway those were your words not mine.
R:Whose on trial here?
S: No one.
R: It seems like I'm the one on trial. You say these things "those are your words" make it sound like i'm being judged.
S: okay.
R: What purpose is being gained by being logged on yet not engaged?
S: Okay blame everything on me.
R: I can't see you and I can barely hear you.
S:I don't want to be seen.
R: Tell me how you're feeling.
S: I'm sad.
R: Go on.
S: I'm always sad.
R: Your disappointed in me. That I've let you down. And this doesn't seem like something you can forgive.
S: more crying now.
R: You asked for an extra session S and this is how you're going to pit it out?
S: Yeah okay.
R: Ambivalence. You want more then when you get it you can't engage.
S: Okay blame it on me.
R: Well it seems like you're very stuck on this idea of blame,someone must be held responsible, accountable. Seems like losing the battle one of us has to be the persecuted one. It's not going to be you.Therefore it must be me.

S: More crying then I cut the call at 25.24. Half the session.

I wanted him to call me back but he didn't. So I've lost £20 and need to get back to card 36: diseases of the viens: Phlebothrombosis, thrombophlebitis,phlebectasia and varices.

[LonesomeTonight]

Hugs, Lemon. That sounds like a very painful session.

[LonesomeTonight]

Originally Posted by lucozader

Hope it goes well, Lost.

Cardiologist in just over an hour. P woke me up handing me the missing stone, apparently it was in the bed by his feet. Two minutes later I got a reply from T.

Thanks, universe.

That definitely seems like a good sign from the universe! Glad you found the stone.

[chihirochild]

*Finally* going back to work today after two months of leave due to the d**n depression.

Scared.

I'm putting some extra stuff in my pockets--the handkerchief was a gift from my best friend (it's an inside joke b/c something about the way I exist in the world--I like to think that it's b/c I'm approachable/compassionate but maybe it's just b/c folks can smell a fellow crazy-person from miles away--results in people who I don't know well or who are like my supervisors will out of the blue tell me stuff about them/their lives that makes them cry), the heart was given to me by a former T (and was given to her by one of her former Ts), the writing is a bit of Kahlil Gibran's "On Work" ("work is love made visible" stuff).

Requesting any and all additional pocket riders! (I know that "Bring Your Couch Peeps To Work Day" is not a holiday in any of the major religious traditions but I thought it might be okay to make an exception just this once.) I'll even put you in a front pocket so you don't get too squashed