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Old Sep 28, 2024, 11:36 PM
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I have seen you for ages but at the moment it feels too hard and complicated. I think I am gonna see someone else.
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Old Sep 30, 2024, 04:33 PM
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Dear H,

Thank you for helping me figure out how I could approach things at work.
I've been overthinking, as per.

I wish we'd talked about my sense of holding it together by the skin of my teeth.

I've been walking wounded since July, and I can't seem to explain the emotional toll of all this in a way that R can understand.

Speak soon,

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Old Sep 30, 2024, 09:15 PM
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Old Oct 01, 2024, 12:59 PM
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i hate how bad i feel
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Old Oct 01, 2024, 01:49 PM
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Dear T,

How is it that I handle something stressful like being rear-ended totally fine (at least, in the sense of remaining calm and collected, exchanging information, and still continuing on to my doctor's appointment)? But then I fall apart for something very minor, like your seeming to close the door without acknowledging me on the last day in the old building?

I mean, I guess it's the two T's: transference and triggers...

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Old Oct 01, 2024, 05:31 PM
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Everything feels like aftermath, all over again.
Are you aware that we only had one opportunity to talk about my grief in its current form?

Doesn't feel like it, somehow.
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Old Oct 02, 2024, 01:23 PM
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Please switch to telehealth tommorow.
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Old Oct 02, 2024, 03:37 PM
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I feel so bad. Today the thought that world war 3 is likely going to happen in my lifetime and may have already begun has me terrified. I want to crawl into a deep cave and hide. Or call in sick and go hide under my bed.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 05:31 AM
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Do you mind a shower in a can? My stomach is fine, I'm just dizzy from this new med.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 06:12 AM
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The surreal thing about all this is that you are the only person who can be in the same space with me, and yet I still feel the distance.

You were the only person I trusted with my innermost feelings for so long, then you disappeared when I needed you most.

In Steve's absence, it is hard to access the level of self-belief I had.
I believed in myself because he believed in me, and now you are asking me to figure out what remains?

I took it on the chin when he died, somehow, because that was the only option.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 07:45 AM
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I really hope I can describe what's happened and what I have done and what I have realised without sounding like a loony. In amongst all this is something touching and real about you and how I feel about you, but I am worried it's going to sound copy and paste. Maybe it is. Maybe all these things are copy and paste. But still.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 09:39 AM
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Thanks for ending the conversation on me. I really appreciated it.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 12:19 PM
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I can't believe I got so jealous today of your other client. Wtf is wrong with me. I'm glad I controlled my emotions.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 08:21 PM
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it's interesting, L. just admitting to myself earlier this evening that i still struggle with letting you go, opened up another poem that just came and helped me let go a little bit more. teeny tiny little baby steps, maybe, but i'm getting over you.
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Old Oct 03, 2024, 11:57 PM
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I want your attention real bad right now. Idk whats wrong. Whats with the sudden shift in feelings for you, and why I have no energy and I'm taking 4-5 hour naps a day.
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Old Oct 04, 2024, 01:09 PM
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Do you ever listen to the song Little Talks by Of Monsters And Men? I was listening to it last night and thinking of you.
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Old Oct 04, 2024, 01:43 PM
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Do you ever listen to the song Little Talks by Of Monsters And Men? I was listening to it last night and thinking of you.

Hope it's OK to respond--but I used to (still do, I guess) associate that song with my former marriage counselor. I even started crying one time when I heard it while out (after we terminated) from the line "Tell her that I miss our little talks."
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Old Oct 04, 2024, 02:42 PM
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Dear T,

Hopefully, there won't be a therapy grenade later. But I'm trying to hold onto your comment about how your role is to be there to support me until I get to that point. When I find therapy to be less important, that I want to spend my time doing other things, except maybe as a regular check-in sort of thing. That point just feels so far off...

I guess I just wanted to talk more about the attachment aspect, how I want to be able to feel that less. When I think you were just talking about therapy in general. It's not just about wanting therapy for me, but about wanting therapy *with you*. (I mean, I suppose I could just go get attached to some other therapist.)

Maybe I should write about that (for myself/the memoir, not as an email), and then we can come back around to it on Monday? Of course...that's a difficult anniversary for me--I guess 29 years? (Happy 29th to me? In a sense...)

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Old Oct 04, 2024, 03:55 PM
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I hope you don't fly off your rocker by that email I just sent. I have gone off the deep end and idk why. But I want to stab myself in the forehead with a fork right now from this migraine.

Ok so you messaged me 3 minutes after I messaged you. And you were fine with me. But I still don't get what my issue is.
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Old Oct 04, 2024, 06:00 PM
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Pdoc, Really? Politics now. First was insensitivity to my infertility then pushing religion. Now this? The only reason I stay with you is because you prescribe my anxiety meds and because finding a new one will be difficult. Maybe when your contract is up in January, you won't come back!
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Old Oct 04, 2024, 07:38 PM
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Hope it's OK to respond--but I used to (still do, I guess) associate that song with my former marriage counselor. I even started crying one time when I heard it while out (after we terminated) from the line "Tell her that I miss our little talks."
I like the parts that go

"Some days I dont know if I'm wrong or right"
"Well tell your mind its playing tricks on you my dear."

And

"Its killing me to see you this way."
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Old Oct 04, 2024, 07:45 PM
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I like the parts that go

"Some days I dont know if I'm wrong or right"
"Well tell your mind its playing tricks on you my dear."

And

"Its killing me to see you this way."

Yes, those, too!
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