Couch 214: The chihiro couch

Yeah, but even that would be better than "Life is the journey, not the destination."

I just had my phone dr appt - it went pretty well. So glad thats over with. Just give me my drugs, man. He said his office is closed, and i think he said some of his patients had gotten the covid. I figured them for a bunch of elderly church-goers (im just elderly! ).

Yeah - the bathroom is usually the destination!

Eta - have i mentioned? My new favorite tv show is on start tv - in plain sight. Its KIND OF a western - its about witness protection marshalls in albuquerque. But not a documentary, its more of a rom-com-police-procedural.

He lives with his partner and his dog. He told me last week how he had spent and hour and a half looking for something to watch and that it was depressing. Yesterday I told him that I'd accidentally missed a meeting with my boss and he said he's also losing track of time. When I mentioned going for a pointless drive over the weekend because I didn't think I could do another day of this, he told me how he wants to go somewhere but there's nowhere to really go. He didn't even say anything about my purple hair yesterday. It was only at the roots and it's a little subtle, but still, you'd think he'd notice something like that. So, yeah, I think it's getting to him. I feel like talking about my problems and wanting to get my needs for connection met right now is wrong and makes me a bad person.

I don't know if this needs a trigger warning, but I'm putting it behind one for alcohol, death.

NP if anything wanting connection makes you human. Wanting that doesn't make you bad or wrong. You're allowed to talk about your problems in therapy.

I'm sorry for your family's loss.

Ugh, wonder if it was a sort of hazing thing? I feel like when I was in college, one fraternity got kicked off campus for some sort of incident. While I was there, my university also got this grant to do more education about binge drinking (I wrote a multi-part series about it for our college newspaper).

It's not wrong to have and talk about those needs. I'm sure your T would agree. Actually, those feelings would be a good thing to bring up to him. Was it an in-person or video session yesterday? If video, maybe he thought the purple hair was just a trick of the light or something.


I find myself apologizing to my T because, since the pandemic started, I feel I'm saying similar things each session, but he says it's OK, that I'm not just repeating the same things each time, and that it's a really difficult time to deal with. I guess it's like I worry I'm boring him or something.

Dr. T got to briefly "meet" my D for the first time at the start of today's session. She said, "Hi! It's Dr. [T's first name, which is what I call him to her]." Dr. T: "Hi. It's Miss [D's first name]." He asked her how she was. D: "Great!" He asked what it said on her shirt, as he could only read the first word. She said part of it, and I filled in the rest. Then she wandered off--I said to her, "Do you want to say bye?" She called out, "Bye!" He remarked to me on how much hair she had and that it looks difficult to keep up (it's very curly). It was cute, seeing them interact briefly.

I don't know.

It was an in-person session. We meet again today. I think I will bring up these feelings.

Oh, that's awful I've read numerous stories of things like that happening. People more afraid of getting in trouble than helping their friend...

Hope it goes well. I imagine your T will be understanding about them.


And hopefully he'll say something about your hair. Though mine tends to just be like, "Your hair is shorter!" or something. Like, "Yes, it is."

Good lord.

Work has been exhausting - not the actual work - but the gazillion policy changes that happen. I even get emails on my phone during my shift that I need to change what I'm doing because the policy changed.

Also, diet hasn't been going well - people keep bringing in free food or restaurants are donating it and it's never healthy stuff. It's hard to say no to pizza and donuts

Near my campus is a hospital. Often they find passed-out frat boys lying outside their ER doors on the pavement. Their “friends” just drive up and push them out of the car and drive off. I suppose at least they get them near a hospital...

On a lighter note, I just amused myself by talking to new cat in Info’s voice as though new cat were me and we were having a therapy session. New cat stalked away without paying me.

Could've been worse...you could've been paid in hairballs.

Maybe theres a message there. Or not enough cleavage.

You know i just like saying and spelling Albuquerque. So did Bugs Bunny.

I can't speak to the specifics obviously, but not every passed out drunk person requires medical care. I can't tell you how many times I left should-already-be-ex-husband alone when he passed out drunk. Maybe the frat brothers are culpable or maybe not. I'm sure they're struggling with what happened.

I'm quite fond of the word queue. And when people misspell it cue.

Ugh....I just got an email from work that my closest work friend has been terminated. Then I got a FB notice that a friend died. What a sad day today is.

Hugs, Polibeth, I'm so sorry...

Hugs, polibeth.

I just heard that 2 of my coworkers (mother and daughter) had covid, both tested positive and both are recovering now, but damn. This sucks so bad.

Meanwhile our governor just pushed out the stay at home order until 5/15. I'm surprised he didn't just make it 5/31 but I'm sure it will get extended again.