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Default Sep 24, 2024 at 02:26 AM
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I posted it into the wrong topic. I am not awake yet.

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Default Sep 24, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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Will I actually meet with you on Thursday or will you have another excuse to do telehealth?

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I don't want to be nervous about seeing you tomorrow, and yet I am.
What do you remember about my current grief landscape?

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Default Sep 25, 2024 at 01:24 PM
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Dear T,

How could you not clearly remember the DMZ thing??? That analogy had a lasting negative effect on me. Not sure if we should talk about all this more on Friday or not.

And it's OK that I got emotional near the end. I know you said you wish it was earlier, so we could have talked through it. But I'm not sure what you could have said to make that particular thing better, because it's just a reality of our relationship. It could have just led to me getting *more* upset. My releasing a few tears in the moment is OK.

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Default Sep 26, 2024 at 10:47 AM
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When I said I'd cried over 'other things' since I found out...
You knew what that meant, right?

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You are lovely.
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Sorry for suddenly projectile vomiting in your garbage can for the second time. Thanks for being so cool about it.

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Oh that was difficult to hear you say those words today. It was careless of you. You knew that. I know you regretted saying it, but I can't unhear it. All I can hope is that it doesn't stick in my brain. In one small way I am glad you said it, because the physical reaction from me was so sudden, so instinctive, so uncontrolled. A part of me had been worrying that I am putting it all on, but I realised starkly in that moment that this is deeper than me. This is definitely work that we need to do. But, yeah, that was a silly move. I did well to recover from it.
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Default Sep 28, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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Sticky notes and bullet points are all well and good.
My capacity to feel safe with you suffered from working online and holding that new information in for so long.

It's really important to me that I don't feel forced to change the subject because of the way that we're working.

How do I get my felt sense of safety with you back?

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Default Sep 28, 2024 at 03:34 PM
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You came up in thoughts the other day. I don’t know why. You and therapy have been out of my life since 2017. I think it’s just probably because I passed the business center where your office is located while running an errand the other day. I so wish the 30 grand I put in your pocket over those few years was sitting in my bank account right now. It’s scary being 45 years old with very little savings.
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Going on 8 months since we last met. I wish we'd had a better ending. I still struggle with wanting to say goodbye. I'm not angry anymore, I worked through and let go of that, but I miss having you to talk to. It doesn't help that I'm feeling rather broken again right now. It would be pointless to try to come back, and I don't want anyone else. The short-term t was okay, she got me on the right track to let go the anger, but she felt useless for anything else. I don't know. Maybe I just still miss the you that I now know doesn't exist anywhere but in my head. I don't know.

And ha. I can get away with saying that here.
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Dear J-

Thank you for your unwavering support, insight, and empathic presence during our twice a month sessions. After a lifetime of below average therapists I feel like I've finally found that perfect fit.

I also really want to thank you for encouraging me to go live my life and resist that sickening dependence on therapy with which I came to you. It was a chokehold; an addiction that I have finally overcome. You put my needs and my health above your needs and your paycheck. You helped me see my strength and resilience. It feels so nice to know I can go and live my life untethered to weekly therapy while also having you be right there when I need you. Is this that secure base you're always talking about?

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Default Sep 28, 2024 at 06:07 PM
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That's the thing, you know. The having someone to talk to. When I was at my sister's house, I could talk to both her and her bf, he struggles with mental health stuff too so he understands. I just can't talk to H about this stuff. He can't stand it when I'm not all happy and smiling. So I'm just trying to stay away from him until I feel better. I know I know I know. I do. But I can't. I just can't. And you know why.
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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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Default Sep 30, 2024 at 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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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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