Couch 206: The Hersilia Couch

I hope the heat or ice works. Hopefully you can find a different sleeping position that doesn't bother it.


My right shoulder has been kinda messed up for awhile, over a year, my dr gave me the paperwork to go get it xray'd or whatever but i never did it. I have limited range of motion in it, but it doesn't cause me any pain unless I push it beyond where it wants to stop. I figure with me it's just age catching up to me I dunno.

I just painted my fingernails and toenails a pretty pink color. I enjoyed the pedicure I got when I was visiting my family, but that started peeling off a couple days ago. The gal said it would last about 3 weeks, and that's about when it started peeling off so I guess that's ok. I took the yellow color I had off the rest of the way and was a little sad to see it go. It was pretty and looked nicer than the job I did for myself. Might find a place to go get a pedicure here and see if one of my friends wants to go with.

I'm liking my pdoc so far. He has a dark sense of humor like me and was self disclosing about when he suffered from depression. Yet I think he's overreacting a bit or maybe I'm downplaying how I feel.
My T hasn't ever said he'd send me to the hospital. We talked about it once back in July where it was a mutual agreement that I'd go that evening and he called me that night to make sure I went. It feels like two completely different reactions. I know it's two different people and I'm trying to tell myself it's different with T because he sees me 4x a week and he tells me I can call him if I'm feeling unsafe. Pdoc sees me about once a week for only 20-30 minutes and the relationship is still pretty new. It just makes me nervous to say how I'm feeling when he keeps asking those things.

Doctors tend to be bossier. Also, your therapist might not be able to have you committed depending on your state, while your psychiatrist almost certainly can. So your therapist might have to call the cops to haul you in for an assessment at an ER (where I guess you could just lie) and/or work in concert with your psychiatrist to make you go, whereas your psychiatrist could possibly authorize a 5150 on his authority alone.

In my state, the therapist (anybody, actually) can have me hauled off to the ER by the cops if they fill out the IVC papers before the county magistrate. I would then still have to have a psych evaluation at a hospital before being committed. Whereas if the psychiatrist IVC'd me, I don't think there would be any way to escape a hold.

H is out on a job and won't be back until a couple hours after I go to bed, dang it. I was hoping we could watch a movie or something tonight but I get it, he likes these long distance jobs and doesn't want to turn them down so I didn't say anything. Maybe I'll watch one of the movies in my netflix list that he isn't interested in. I hope I didn't mess up by not canceling my session before the 48 hour window. Time to go check out netflix.

Anyone else have problems with figuring out what's for dinner? It's the worst time of day for us. We always have arguments. It's usually my H who can't decide and makes a fuss over everything. It's so tiring. And he keeps wanting to eat expensive meals. I know fastfood isn't healthy, but isn't it better than $82 for 1 small pizza, 2 medium pizzas, and a side of ravioli? Yes, that's what he decided for dinner. Fastfood for 3 people would be what $15-30? Even my cooking he doesn't want sometimes

My psychiatrist called to have me transported to the ER for an evaluation last month and that's what he's asking if I need to go again. I think maybe he doesn't trust that I'd go in myself or he feels I'm at more risk than my T feels. Or my therapist said he'd only do it out of my control if I threatened to hurt myself when I left his office because he rather it be a mutual decision to go.

I usually cook on the weekend stuff we can just heat up during the week - spaghetti, meatloaf, etc for h and lentils or spaghetti w marinara or something for me. Sometimes we go out for Mexican food at a little local place that's about $25 for both of us even when I gets a margarita. H eats fast food if he's out on a job and hungry and uses coupons from the newspaper.

That must be some pizza.

I either plan meals at the start of the week or the day before for the next day, or I cook a dish with multiple servings on the weekend and eat it during the week.

But I’m my own boss and don’t need to get others on board.

I do the same as @@. Plan (and shop) ahead. Anyone who does not care for the plan is welcome to cook what they want for everyone that night instead, or make themselves a sandwich, no questions asked. It takes the guesswork out of things. And for me, it makes me more likely to cook instead of deciding on take-out at the last minute.

Most of my dinners consist of triscuits, cheese, and grapes. I have not been very good about eating my vegetables lately. Sometimes I have a can of string beans.

I told the therapist I have a callous disregard for others today and she didn't take me seriously. I think she kind of laughed, in fact. Seems like she should have been more alarmed.

Oh yeah grapes. I've been eating a lot of those lately they've been really good.

Can't find anything I wanna watch. Don't feel like crocheting or studying or writing or reading. Just feel a lil blah. Maybe I'll light some candles and take a nice hot bath...

Watching a Perry Mason episode

Fun! Paul is Hedda Hopper's son. Anybody famous on the episode? Usually there is.i loooove this show. My parents wouldnt let us watch it cuz perry is gay. I dont know how they knew that!!!

I didn't know that (about Paul) Angie Dickinson it's the case of the one-eyed witness

Ooh twilight zone is next

Hola Artie!

Sounds like it was a good episode!

Hi Lola!

I believe the correct response is, Hola Lola.

Haha gimme a break I was tired

Yeah i saw her here last night but i didnt think of it til this morning myself.