Couch 185: The Labyrinth

Woooo it is! According to that ikea study i posted about before. Way to go art! Did you go for the third one too?

Be warned. I think you can now expect random amazon deliverys of cat food and toys.

Now you must pay us in dog pictures. XD

(I'm kidding! I'm glad you found a solution )

I can understand this. When I was at my worst depression wise I used to wish I had something to prove that I wasn't well.

I can understand how pets can easily become family. Would you still be able to visit him regularly?

Wanting to avoid scheduling a work meeting on a trauma anniversary isn't selfish, right? (Sorry, I'm aware that I'm kind of talking to myself, but the Critic is loud today.)

I felt this way after my divorce. I did a few symbolic things meaningful only to me, like threw my cell phone in the ocean, adopted a puppy, and and cut my hair.

I love Between Us - such a beautiful therapy podcast.

Curious what you thought about it?

I’m not too sure. I am not in therapy nor have been since 2016 but I wouldn’t put my sessions out there like that. That’s just me..

Try testing her thyroid, and think about small sleep seizures? Sleep lowers the seizure threshold in dogs, and can be idiopathic.

There's a dog version of prozac that works well, and lowering protein sometimes helps.

Tomorrow I am starting a very low carb diet. (Just 20 grams of carbs a day), I already haven’t had cherry coke 0 in a week(even though there’s no carbs in that aspertaime is very bad for you) and the Christmas cookies are just about gone. This isn’t just a fly by night non comittal New Years resolution. I think resolutions are for the birds. My aim is to just be better today than I was yesterday. So tomorrow is the day. I’m in the process of making a menu. My foods need to be kept lower in fat and very low carb. I’m gonna do it. This is my declaration. Those of you who went low carb-please if you willing to PM
Me with with your tips and tricks (so as to not trigger anyone). What’s worked for you? What hasn’t? I would appreciate any info anyone is willing to share who’s done this. I tipped the scales today. It’s bad. I don’t know how I got here. I was very thin until 3-4 years ago. Something needs to change and it starts now. I need a cheerleader or 2.

I agree- I wouldn't either. I tend to respect consent from adults, but the relationship is so complex I feel uneasy about the ethics as I listen. The T seems to me to relate better to men than women. He talks over the female clients in the last ones. The clients were very insightful in some places. Overall I am highly unsure what I think.

I plan to listen to more today. I Wouldn’t choose him as a therapist. Something just doesn’t sit right but I’m not sure what that is yet.

Actually yes. lol. Daily walks do help with anxiety in people as well. Even just a short walk can help.

I hate my new job. I am so mentally checked out, it's a super hard time for me to work. I'm not ready to work today. I just wanna sleep.

I don't hate my job, but I hate this time of year at it. So thankful to not be taking calls anymore. Still the vitriol that comes across in the messages I work that our members send thru our website... it's hard. I know they don't know me personally and they're cussing out the company, not me, but I just wish people would stop and think a minute before they spew the really hateful stuff.

Lots of people don’t stop and think. It’s part of what’s wrong with this world.

I think it's so much harder to be kind then it is to be hurtful, especially when we're given a cloak of relative anonymity. I'm sorry you're having to deal with hurtful messages.

I don't think it is harder to be kind, but when dealing with certain types of companies such as any thing having to do with health frustration, fear, pain, confusion and lack of power in getting what one needs to stay alive (in some cases) does take over. When helping my person deal with that sort of stuff, if I could have, there were times I would have reached through the phone and grabbed the person on the other end by the throat and so on just because of how distressing it was for my person to deal with the stupidity of it all. I still - almost 2 years later - remember how the frustration and fear and powerlessness felt.

I have a $10.00 coupon to go get my oil changed in my car. I think I’ll go do that. I imagine they won’t be too crowded. I think most people have to work today if they want to get paid for the holiday?

Tweaked my back. Ack.

I do daily back exercises (well, almost daily) to try to prevent this but apparently that didn’t do it. Silly spine, tweaks are for old people!

(Does this mean I’m old now??)

If your old you only aged from working 80 hours a week.

Only one person ahead of me for an oil change. I enjoy discounts but I enjoy places that are not crowded even more.

The reality of my son not living here anymore has hit me harder now that we have started turning his old room into a library room. At least when it was empty there was space for him to come back. Now there's not. And that kinda hurts my heart. Like a statement that he's not welcome any longer. When of course that is not true.