Couch 181: The Symmetrical Couch

You're doing the best you can.

I had a good session with R.

I started off with random stuff mainly about school. I told him that I'd decided to stop fighting him and why I'd been acting out since september. The cousin stuff,my grandmother being ill.

He said it was nice that I was being so direct, after I told him why I didn't want to switch T. And he said he had been stubborn in our last session.

Hightlight Q: "what's it being in love with you therapist".

If anyone wants to pocket ride, bonus T session in 45 minutes...wherein he'll likely be like "Oh God, why did I take on LT as a client?"

Hopping in

Hops In. Fingers crossed for the best for LT! Kit

Thanks for the riders!

+1

Because you're brave, strong and kind.

You haven't done anything wrong. You called him, you didn't set his house on fire.

Aw, thanks, Lemon. Not even just the call, how I've been as a client over the past 13.5 months

You got this, LT. There's nothing wrong with you as a client. I hope your session goes well.

In that case a very good one! No small court cases filled for non payment. You turned up on time and gave it your best.

I'm in, hope it works out however is best for you.

LT, I don't think you are a bad client either. My t was telling me one time that in some of her previous jobs working with teenagers or court ordered therapy sessions the clients refused to talk and she just sat there and stared at them most of the sessions. She was saying with this current job it's better because everyone sees her willingly. You're a willing client so there's that.

Plus, there are currents and surges in the solar wind, and I don't suppose these are adequately mapped.

There are no easy clients!

My ex would have a field day with this. He would say its desensitisation but i do remember when the story first happened it disaapeared from all the news services for a couple of days.

So I want to take an in-person class on economics at my university next semester and I want a notetaker for the lectures so I don’t miss anything.

So I register with the disability center (founded by No. 1 decades ago, incidentally) and fill out their online request form for accommodations prior to meeting with a counselor. Preferred method of contact? I say email, because the phone is too dicey for me.

So...they call me on the phone.

So...I think session went well? T took it very seriously, saying at the beginning "I think this will be a very important conversation." I discovered a throw pillow in his office that has very comforting fringe, so I stroked that much of the session. (How did I not discover that before?) It basically came down to...T is trying not to be ex-MC. He doesn't want to repeat those mistakes and lead me down that path. He's concerned that saying "I care about you" takes it outside of the therapeutic relationship. He was fine with saying "I care about you as a client," and we spent lots of time talking about what that meant. Because, to me, that meant "I care about you as long as you are paying me." But he said it wasn't about that. More about what therapeutic relationship entails. There was much more to the session that I may write up later in IST, but still processing. For now, I plan to continue working with him.

(((((LT)))))

(((((LT)))))

Next week I work three days because of the funeral. The week after that I work three days because of the Thanksgiving holiday. This month is going to fly by. Kit.

I didnt realize thanksgiving is early this year, thanks for making me look! It was late last year and i was thinking it was gonna be the same. Another sign of old age!

I know...it's really early. We do a toy drive and food baskets for the holiday at Church and they gave us a deadline of 6 weeks last Sunday so it hits the middle of December...and I was like, what?! We have to have how many toys by when?! Ack! I don't even want to think about it but I have to. Kit.

I am impressed you want to learn economics.
And at our university = the accommodations office is just about that efficient. I think they have bar that says if you are this (high) smart - you can't work here.

I have to get new kitty out of the guest room tonight because my sister will be coming in to town and needs the guest room, but I really don't want to move new kitty to my room because she is still skittish and that's her comfort place right now. Ugh. Not that I don't want to see my sister because I do, but I want new kitty to be comfortable. Argh. Kit.

I feel like the time change has been more than an hour. Feels like it should be 3 hours later than it is right now....