Therapy

[girlsmiley]

It’s just after 5.30 AM and I’m already trying to think how my 8 AM sesh is going to go. What to say. I’m actually a bit nervous. I’m not usually and know I shouldn’t be, but today I’m supposed to talk about a relationship. A bad one ugh.

Anyone else doing therapy? Work for you?

So far it’s fine. A few eye opening moments, so that’s good I suppose. Learned a few things about myself and why I do things.

 

[thør]

Not doing therapy, but my daughter-in-law is a therapist. She even has a therapy dog to help some folks feel a bit more comfortable.

 

[girlsmiley]

Not doing therapy, but my daughter-in-law is a therapist. She even has a therapy dog to help some folks feel a bit more comfortable.

I’d probably feel sorry for the dog lol.

I had a long shower. Wearing my most comfortable jeans. She’ll be right

 

[Sean]

"Hasn't she got any mates?"

Crocodile Dundee

 

[FataMorgana]

I’d probably feel sorry for the dog lol.

I had a long shower. Wearing my most comfortable jeans. She’ll be right

You shower in your jeans? Freak!

 

[Big4Wheeler]

I did all kinds of therapy. Good thing you do this. Good luck.

 

[Diosax]

It’s just after 5.30 AM and I’m already trying to think how my 8 AM sesh is going to go. What to say. I’m actually a bit nervous. I’m not usually and know I shouldn’t be, but today I’m supposed to talk about a relationship. A bad one ugh.

Anyone else doing therapy? Work for you?

So far it’s fine. A few eye opening moments, so that’s good I suppose. Learned a few things about myself and why I do things.

Hope you had a good session!

I do therapy and I truly believe in access to mental health services. Happy to talk about it if you want. And yes it works for me.

 

[allclad]

It's a coin flip. Maybe it helps, maybe it doesn't. Hope it helps for you.

 

[girlsmiley]

"Hasn't she got any mates?"

Crocodile Dundee

Lol

You shower in your jeans? Freak!

Doctor doctor! I can’t stop showering in my clothes!


We didn’t talk about relationships. We talked about me. It was serious, but kinda funny as well. We had a laugh.

Psychologist reckons I need to ask more questions and stop presuming everyone else is a straight shooter like me. I need to realise that not everyone has common sense, or the mental capacity in some situations. Not her exact words, but more or less.

Less talking, more listening and less skipping to the end. I’ll try.

 

[pecksniff]

Not doing therapy, but my daughter-in-law is a therapist. She even has a therapy dog to help some folks feel a bit more comfortable.

Peanut butter would help with that.

 

[Dribble]

Lol


Doctor doctor! I can’t stop showering in my clothes!


We didn’t talk about relationships. We talked about me. It was serious, but kinda funny as well. We had a laugh.

Psychologist reckons I need to ask more questions and stop presuming everyone else is a straight shooter like me. I need to realise that not everyone has common sense, or the mental capacity in some situations. Not her exact words, but more or less.

Less talking, more listening and less skipping to the end. I’ll try.

Then you did talk about relationships...all relationships. Including our relationship with ourselves. I give your therapist a thumbs up

 

[girlsmiley]

Then you did talk about relationships...all relationships. Including our relationship with ourselves. I give your therapist a thumbs up

Yes. Building a better relationship with myself will help me build better relationships with others. I need that. It’s necessary.

We’ve touched on how I was raised and how quickly things move and have moved for me. My responsibilities. What people expected of me. From a very young age. Everyone.

As a result of all that I skip to the end and tend to, well… not wait for others to catch up? I expect and sometimes it’s not okay. I can come across as intimidating. My therapist said I’m intelligent, mature and determined. I said that’s a nice way to put it. She laughed and said “We can use nice words.”

Anyway, I realise now that I can be too much. Especially for people who don’t know me. I think I’ve forgotten how hard it was for me. Expectation. Maybe I’ve blocked it out I don’t know. In saying that, I’m not unreasonable. My expectations aren’t ridiculously high. I’m from the country I’m pretty DTE.

I just have to remember that not everyone has had the same experiences as me. Some people aren’t so … hardened I guess would be one word for it. We aren’t all the same.

 

[girlsmiley]

I just imagined myself as a therapist. A straight shooting version:

“What therapists do is we listen and then we try and reflect back what we see from a neutral perspective. What I can see from our conversations so far, is that you are a massive cunt. Yeah, a massive cunt. Massive.”

Fuck

 

[thør]

I’d probably feel sorry for the dog lol.

I had a long shower. Wearing my most comfortable jeans. She’ll be right

The dog will be your friend, as long as you pay him the slightest attention.

 

[thør]

You shower in your jeans? Freak!

You don't?

 

[Not Normal]

The times I went to therapy (once couples, once individual) I really wasn't as invested as I should have been. I was vague and really didn't get very far. I've considered going back, but haven't. Generally, I work through things on my own.

I hope you have success, Smiley, that you continue to learn about yourself, and that it helps you on your journey.

 

[pecksniff]

How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?

Just one, but the light bulb has to want to change!

 

[girlsmiley]

The dog will be your friend, as long as you pay him the slightest attention.

I think that’s really sweet. What I’m worried about is any negative feelings transferring to him. Dogs know. They can feel it too. Can you explain a therapy dog a bit more?

 

[JohnnySavage]

I dated a psychiatrist once. I drove her crazy.

 

[girlsmiley]

The times I went to therapy (once couples, once individual) I really wasn't as invested as I should have been. I was vague and really didn't get very far. I've considered going back, but haven't. Generally, I work through things on my own.

I hope you have success, Smiley, that you continue to learn about yourself, and that it helps you on your journey.

To be fair on myself, I think I should’ve been offered therapy more than 20 years ago. To help with a whole range of things that have “plagued” my life. I learned to hide a whole bunch of stuff away to appear strong. I thought I had to be the tough girl because of responsibility. The smart one. The reliable one. The financial person. The caring one. The mother, in a way. Not literally, but similar in a way. A whole part of growing up was left behind and I stepped into adulthood well before my time. It was just lucky that I was quite well traveled by then. For my age.

I’m sure we can all look back in hindsight and ask ‘what if?’ But we can’t change the past. What we can change, though, is the feelings we have about things. The way we look at things. Places. People. Even in the past. We can find peace. I’d highly recommend therapy to anyone mate, and if that’s something you’ve thought about just do it. It won’t hurt you to try

 

[girlsmiley]

I dated a psychiatrist once. I drove her crazy.

Oh okay, Chuck

 

[WillJ8787]

It’s just after 5.30 AM and I’m already trying to think how my 8 AM sesh is going to go. What to say. I’m actually a bit nervous. I’m not usually and know I shouldn’t be, but today I’m supposed to talk about a relationship. A bad one ugh.

Anyone else doing therapy? Work for you?

So far it’s fine. A few eye opening moments, so that’s good I suppose. Learned a few things about myself and why I do things.

Yes and a three year stint learning how to do therapy. What worked for me was group therapy, gestalt psychodrama hot seat work in larger groups. It's mostly about dialogue as all therapy encourages and it allowed me to "re-enact" situations.

 

[girlsmiley]

Yes and a three year stint learning how to do therapy. What worked for me was group therapy, gestalt psychodrama hot seat work in larger groups. It's mostly about dialogue as all therapy encourages and it allowed me to "re-enact" situations.

Come again?

 

[oneblueye]

It’s just after 5.30 AM and I’m already trying to think how my 8 AM sesh is going to go. What to say. I’m actually a bit nervous. I’m not usually and know I shouldn’t be, but today I’m supposed to talk about a relationship. A bad one ugh.

Anyone else doing therapy? Work for you?

So far it’s fine. A few eye opening moments, so that’s good I suppose. Learned a few things about myself and why I do things.

well I am happy to report that since I been going to therapy, none of the people in my life that deserve that karma waiting for them, have had it fall on them as a result of my actions.
so far so good...

 

[girlsmiley]

well I am happy to report that since I been going to therapy, none of the people in my life that deserve that karma waiting for them, have had it fall on them as a result of my actions.
so far so good...

I really don’t like you, but you’ve brought something up that I would like to bring up in therapy. It’s coming

I’ve said some things to certain people and about certain people. Like, prophecy. I was quite spiritual in my younger days, just quietly, so when things started happening I thought maybe my negative thoughts had something to do with it. What happened to these people. Bad things. In some freaky out of it way. I know it sounds crazy but hear me out.

One stage I tried to take it back in the hope of turning things around for a person who’d really done me wrong. Turns out I’m just really good at people. I’m just “highly intuitive” when it comes to people. That’s what I’ve been told. That’s my experience. Shit things happen to shit people. In the end, they do it to themselves. It’s not karma. They fuck themselves over. One way or another, we pay.