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fishsandwich · Jun 05, 2012 at 05:34 PM

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I don't always know that circumventing education is a good idea. I would want a psychologist to qualified.
But I do understand the frustration of doing a bunch of non-related courses. Just skip to those relevant.

I've always found life experience and a certain kind of personality and mannerism is so much more important than qualifications for a psychologist, but I'm weird that way.

I was once forced to see a (fully qualified) psychologist in hospital. She was the same age as me, but actually had less education. She was . . . not helpful. Knew all kinds of textbook stuff, but nothing really about life. She seemed confused about why I speak in French to my father but English to my mother, which I don't really think was a tough thing to understand.

fishsandwich · Jun 05, 2012 at 06:04 PM

**** it anyway, I just realised that I addressed a wedding card to a cousin and her husband using his wrong name . . . I addressed it to my cousin and Alexander Nobel, who endowed the Nobel Prizes and invented dynamite. How the **** did I do that?!?

costello · Jun 05, 2012 at 07:47 PM

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Either you know Lacan really well, or I was expressing myself much more clearly than I thought I was.

Well, you expressed yourself well enough for me to pick up on Lacan.

All I know about Lacan I learned from a Madness Radio (of course!) interview with Louis Sass.

costello · Jun 05, 2012 at 07:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Gr3tta

I don't always know that circumventing education is a good idea. I would want a psychologist to qualified.
But I do understand the frustration of doing a bunch of non-related courses. Just skip to those relevant.

I was thinking I could identify what it is about being a psychologist I think interests me and see if there's another job that would provide those tasks or experiences. For example, I was considering working in a homeless shelter or as a case manager at the mhc. Those jobs would allow me to be of help to people in the population I'm thinking I might like to work with. I wouldn't be a therapist, of course, but maybe that's not what I'm looking for? I don't know. Just exploring. And the exploring is kind of fun. Like planning a vacation.

If I decide I'm interested in becoming a psychologist, I'll have to get the degree.

newtus · Jun 06, 2012 at 02:56 AM

isnt that the cat from "everytime you masturbate a kitten dies"?

Gr3tta · Jun 06, 2012 at 02:47 PM

Want some more projects.

costello · Jun 06, 2012 at 04:35 PM

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Want some more projects.

My house needs work.

cybermember · Jun 06, 2012 at 08:05 PM

I would like to learn the eastern philosophy of patience.

costello · Jun 07, 2012 at 06:05 AM

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I would like to learn the eastern philosophy of patience.

I've been working on that, cyber. It's helpful if you work at it. Thich Nhat Hanh compares mindfulness to a hammer for a carpenter. If you give a carpenter a hammer, he doesn't set it on an altar and worship it. He uses it. It's a tool. Same with mindfulness. It's a tool meant to be used. Too many people, IMO, read about the tool, but never pick it up and use it - or at least not enough to get good at it. They set it on an altar and worship it.

Now I'm off to do my morning meditation.

Gr3tta · Jun 07, 2012 at 09:18 AM

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My house needs work.

I like cleaning and decorating, but am not very handy with repairs.

costello · Jun 07, 2012 at 10:27 AM

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I like cleaning and decorating, but am not very handy with repairs.

Good news! My house needs to be cleaned and decorated as well as repaired.

fishsandwich · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:07 PM

Ew cleaning. I must do that.
I just got off work and all I feel like doing is lying in bed with junk food and watching telly. I hate this job.

Gr3tta · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:12 PM

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Good news! My house needs to be cleaned and decorated as well as repaired.

Well I would go ahead and book a flight to wherever it is that you live, but my wife might take exception to my running off to clean some other woman's home.

Want a tip? Don't forget that just about everything can be vacuumed - including the walls, ceiling, and the inside of the oven.

OH, and scented bleach is awesome. (yes, I am a cleaning nerd)

fishsandwich · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:29 PM

Gretta, you should make your millions as a domestic goddess. Think of the licensing agreements! You'd make mint on Gretta brand scented bleach alone.

fishsandwich · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:31 PM

I get extremely self-conscious about my English, to the point where I want to cry.
This isn't good in somebody whose job involves copy-editing a major English publication.

costello · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:32 PM

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Want a tip? Don't forget that just about everything can be vacuumed - including the walls, ceiling, and the inside of the oven.

OH, and scented bleach is awesome. (yes, I am a cleaning nerd)

I'll have to try the scented bleach.

I suggested to my son that he might want to do some housework. First, he's an able-bodied adult who should be doing more around the house. Second, it's not good for him to be waited on. Third, I'm pooped! Fourth, he has nothing else to do (currently he's even afraid to go out of the house unless it's something he absolutely has to do). He sits. He stares. He thinks dark and depressing thoughts.

I started saying, "Why don't you run the vacuum cleaner?" I said it over and over and over. Finally he started running the vacuum cleaner. He vacuums daily. It's the only chore he does, but at least I know the carpet is being vacuumed.

I predict that here in the very near future he'll stop and refuse to do it anymore. He'll give one of two reasons, or both: 1) when he does what I ask him to do he feels like he's being bullied or bossed around, and/or 2) it doesn't help - he's still depressed and his life still isn't going anywhere.

Ah, well. For the time being at least the living room carpet is being vacuumed regularly.

costello · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:33 PM

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I get extremely self-conscious about my English, to the point where I want to cry.
This isn't good in somebody whose job involves copy-editing a major English publication.

Your English seems fine to me. Do you want to cry in English or French?

fishsandwich · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:42 PM

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Your English seems fine to me. Do you want to cry in English or French?

It's fine, but it's not perfect. It's so much better on the Internet, where I can think. I have a weird Frenchie accent in real life, and when I get tired or stressed I forget how the words and expressions go.

Does crying have a language?
I like to get angry in German (what else?) and celebrate in Greek (they're the best at parties) but I'm not sure about crying.

fishsandwich · Jun 07, 2012 at 12:52 PM

Plus the psychiatrists used to call me nuts because my English deteriorates under stress. They have a clinical word for it -- thought disorder, I think -- but I don't think it's meant to apply to people who are just ESL speakers.

Gr3tta · Jun 07, 2012 at 01:21 PM

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Plus the psychiatrists used to call me nuts because my English deteriorates under stress. They have a clinical word for it -- thought disorder, I think -- but I don't think it's meant to apply to people who are just ESL speakers.

Someone who has become my good friend on here is a non-native English speaker. I can definitely tell when he is distressed because his sentence structures deteriorate. I didn't realize there was a word for it. I just thought it must be more difficult for him to translate his thoughts under duress.

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fishsandwich Magnate Member Since Apr 2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 2,186 12 673 hugs given	Jun 07, 2012 at 12:29 PM #214 Gretta, you should make your millions as a domestic goddess. Think of the licensing agreements! You'd make mint on Gretta brand scented bleach alone. __________________ Psychiatric Survivor "And just when I've lost my way, and I've got too many choices . . . . I hear voices!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCfb54e_kM

fishsandwich Magnate Member Since Apr 2012 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 2,186 12 673 hugs given	Jun 07, 2012 at 12:31 PM #215 I get extremely self-conscious about my English, to the point where I want to cry. This isn't good in somebody whose job involves copy-editing a major English publication. __________________ Psychiatric Survivor "And just when I've lost my way, and I've got too many choices . . . . I hear voices!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCfb54e_kM