Dear T: I really need to tell you something XLVI

Mountaindewed · Mar 21, 2023 at 10:25 AM

I guess I tell you about the small fries from Mcdonalds I ate last night and not the apple cider vinegar drinks I've been drinking and all the diet bars I've been eating or the bone broth I have on my shopping list. Or is that just manipulation? Maybe I'd have more trust in therapists if they didn' passivly aggresivly threaten to terminate me when I tell them this stuff.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 21, 2023 at 12:26 PM

I'm so very ready for Friday. I have so much to talk about. Wish for more time.

East17 · Mar 21, 2023 at 12:44 PM

Damn... I stupidly looked forward to this session for a week and I feel so let down. It didn't help that we had technial issues on both sides, that kind of ruined the flow a bit. But I think you could sense that I didn't feel ok with how the session went.

There weren't any interruptions, but I didn't feel like you were really present with me, as though your mind was somewhere else. I was conscious of H being in the next room for a while and that definitely didn't help.

The disconnect I am feeling with the wider world seems to be seeping into our therapy sessions as well, and I really need that not to happen, as it's the one 'safe-ish' place I have in my life.

Now I have to sit with these feelings for another week. I know you wouldn't mind me emailing you about it in-between, but I have always tried not to contact you between sessions. In my head I am more reliant on you/our relationship than I would ever admit, but in real life I don't come across like that, and I don't believe you are aware of it. That's the way it's going to stay if I can possibly help it.

Waterbear · Mar 21, 2023 at 12:52 PM

I wish I'd listened to my gut a year ago. I knew in my heart that yours wasn't the right environment for me.

Waterbear · Mar 21, 2023 at 04:01 PM

This isn't really for you, T, but I've nowhere else to vent this. Why are therapists so bad at getting back to people. I've contacted 8 over the last two days and only 3 have replied. Two of those to say they have no availability. One to ask me more questions, which I answered right away, yet 24 hours later, still nothing. Is it too much to think 'you' might get back to someone who is clearly reaching out for help? I'm struggling here and it would be really nice if I wasn't just left hanging. I understand you are all busy, and some may be away, but I personally think that's quite a low response rate 😓

Waterbear · Mar 21, 2023 at 04:04 PM

Ps, on top of the mouth ulcers and fatigue, I now have a banging headache. I so rarely get headaches. Stress is really not good for you.

Mountaindewed · Mar 21, 2023 at 05:23 PM

Kinda funny how you had to put your toddler back in his room because he escaped in the middle of our session. But why did you have him in his room anyways? Unless he was supposed to be taking a nap or something.

LostOnTheTrail · Mar 21, 2023 at 05:34 PM

Being able to ask for support entails finding the words.
Finding the words takes energy that I'm struggling to spare.
The team that now presents what I will always consider Steve's podcast recently put out an episode on getting the rest you need.

Every time I think about listening to it I find myself thinking 'He should still ****ing be here.'

velcro003 · Mar 21, 2023 at 05:56 PM

E: I'm glad I get to see you tomorrow, and since the intense anxiety of going back to work has been pushed off another week, maybe we can actually focus on something else.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 22, 2023 at 08:10 PM

I've been really lazy about writing down dreams this week... 3 times now that I recall I woke up and knew there was just a dream there but rolled over and went back to sleep without writing them down. Shame on me, I know. Oh well. I'll try to do better tonight and tomorrow night.

LostOnTheTrail · Mar 23, 2023 at 12:45 PM

Thank you for those moments of human to human connection.

We are in a deep place at the moment, and one where I think I'm finally asking the right questions.

'We weren't meant to do this alone' really struck a chord with me today.

Sometimes, it's not ministry that we need, it's other people.

Recognising what this experience has done to me and my life is something best done gradually, I think.

Thanks for sitting with me through that process.

velcro003 · Mar 23, 2023 at 04:01 PM

E and T- Help. Please.

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 23, 2023 at 09:23 PM

SO ready to talk tomorrow.

East17 · Mar 24, 2023 at 03:31 AM

Well after 4 good consecutive sessions, this week's bombed...

I suppose it had to happen, but I'd prefer consistency rather than this up and down pattern we seem to have in our therapy. I just get comfortable and feel that we're in this for the long haul, then a really **** session happens and I'm back to wondering if it's time to call it a day.

Hell's bells!

SlumberKitty · Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16 AM

Dear T: Please help me. Thanks. Kit

LostOnTheTrail · Mar 24, 2023 at 12:41 PM

I spent a significant part of today thinking about contacting the suicide loss support group to get the paperwork that I need if I want to attend an in-person session.

It's only an email, or a phone call.

The person I met at the Cathedral said that she'd be the one I'd speak to if I rang the mobile number...

What difference does it make?

ArtieTheSequal · Mar 24, 2023 at 09:07 PM

Thanks for today. It's been really helpful talking through these realizations with you. It must be hard to sit there and not say mmhmmm I tooooooold you. lol

velcro003 · Mar 25, 2023 at 07:28 AM

You guys can’t help. No one can.

LonesomeTonight · Mar 25, 2023 at 08:58 AM

Dear T,
It means a lot that you thanked me for sharing my writing and told me "Keep writing" when I left yesterday. I'm glad I shared that with you (though I might feel differently had I shared the actual version I sent for critique!) I think it's leading to some interesting discussions. I'll be curious to hear some of your notes from our first session on Monday.

I also appreciate your noting one way that you've seen me progress since the first year I saw you. (And I agree with your assessment.) One reason I chose to leave ex-T is how she said, nearly 6 years in, how I was still so anxious all the time. I imagine it was really about her fearing she hadn't helped me. But it seemed like she didn't see my progress, in that area or others.

I know it's ultimately up to me to decide whether I've made progress or not--and how to feel about that--but it helps hearing it from the outside, too. Hm...maybe that's something I missed from my parents, too...and why getting good grades in school meant so much to me.

Love,
LT

LostOnTheTrail · Mar 25, 2023 at 05:30 PM

I was watching This is Us tonight, the episode where Jack cries at the end.

My question still stands...'Who the hell am I holding it together for?'

I don't know what it's going to take for me to cross that threshold, and I'm not sure I want to find out.

I strive to be authentically 'Lost' every time we talk, but this fragile version of me isn't a version of me that I like.

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ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,307 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,794 hugs given	Mar 21, 2023 at 12:26 PM #2 I'm so very ready for Friday. I have so much to talk about. Wish for more time.

Waterbear Magnate Member Since Feb 2016 Location: England Posts: 2,408 8 1,316 hugs given	Mar 21, 2023 at 12:52 PM #4 I wish I'd listened to my gut a year ago. I knew in my heart that yours wasn't the right environment for me.

Waterbear Magnate Member Since Feb 2016 Location: England Posts: 2,408 8 1,316 hugs given	Mar 21, 2023 at 04:04 PM #6 Ps, on top of the mouth ulcers and fatigue, I now have a banging headache. I so rarely get headaches. Stress is really not good for you.

Mountaindewed Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jun 2016 Location: Where the sidewalk ends Posts: 36,495 (SuperPoster!) 7 8,887 hugs given	Mar 21, 2023 at 05:23 PM #7 Kinda funny how you had to put your toddler back in his room because he escaped in the middle of our session. But why did you have him in his room anyways? Unless he was supposed to be taking a nap or something. __________________ Ridin' with Biden

velcro003 Elder Member Since Oct 2008 Posts: 7,361 15 25 hugs given	Mar 21, 2023 at 05:56 PM #9 E: I'm glad I get to see you tomorrow, and since the intense anxiety of going back to work has been pushed off another week, maybe we can actually focus on something else.

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,307 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,794 hugs given	Mar 22, 2023 at 08:10 PM #10 I've been really lazy about writing down dreams this week... 3 times now that I recall I woke up and knew there was just a dream there but rolled over and went back to sleep without writing them down. Shame on me, I know. Oh well. I'll try to do better tonight and tomorrow night.

velcro003 Elder Member Since Oct 2008 Posts: 7,361 15 25 hugs given	Mar 23, 2023 at 04:01 PM #12 E and T- Help. Please.

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,307 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,794 hugs given	Mar 23, 2023 at 09:23 PM #13 SO ready to talk tomorrow.

SlumberKitty Legendary Wise Elder Member Since Jul 2018 Location: CA Posts: 27,329 (SuperPoster!) 5 117.7k hugs given	Mar 24, 2023 at 11:16 AM #15 Dear T: Please help me. Thanks. Kit __________________ Dum Spiro Spero IC XC NIKA

ArtieTheSequal Writing my way through... Member Since Feb 2020 Location: In the desert Posts: 7,307 (SuperPoster!) 4 5,794 hugs given	Mar 24, 2023 at 09:07 PM #17 Thanks for today. It's been really helpful talking through these realizations with you. It must be hard to sit there and not say mmhmmm I tooooooold you. lol

velcro003 Elder Member Since Oct 2008 Posts: 7,361 15 25 hugs given	Mar 25, 2023 at 07:28 AM #18 You guys can’t help. No one can.