I want to die

[Shallowed]

nice

[smashingjj]

i drank after a month of not drinking and now i almost feel like


i want to die

[FoolofaTook]

[Joey Goldberg]

nice

[FoolofaTook]

Just wait until you find out his noble appellation:

John Tracy Thames Jr.

[Joey Goldberg]

ok, but what about the guy holding him?

[FoolofaTook]

Top of the mornin' to ya! Me names John Tracy Thames Jr., Squire of the Noble Estates of Wokinghamshire, and I was having a bit of tea on the Serengeti when a gazelle happened to bounce by ...

[Joey Goldberg]

i'm just gonna go with "Hank"

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by Joey Goldberg

ok, but what about the guy holding him?

That's Fido.

[Joey Goldberg]

eh, i think i'm sticking with Hank

[ovary]

Originally Posted by smashingjj

i drank after a month of not drinking and now i almost feel like


i want to die

because you're hungover or because you hate yourself?

[yo soy el mejor]

i miss seeing my therapist in person. talking via zoom and the phone has really elevated our relationship, though.

[smashingjj]

Originally Posted by ovary

because you're hungover or because you hate yourself?

Exactly.

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

i miss seeing my therapist in person. talking via zoom and the phone has really elevated our relationship, though.

It's awkward when I have telephone appointments with my therapist or psychiatrist and have to move from room to room to dodge my family.

[MyOneAndOnly]

my therapist uses Vsee for video sessions. it displays me in a small window on my screen that I can't hide or minimize. And because i have issues with being visually distracted I am unable to stay focused on my therapist's face on the screen. And i end up staring at myself the whole time.

it sounds silly, but it fucks with my head and triggers my OCD.

The sessions simply don't feel as productive as when I am in her office staring at the floor while I talk to her

[smashingjj]

I don't think my old therapist would be able or willing to do therapy through internet. she once told me that if she got an email that she didn't like, she could just click 'reply' and the unwanted email would return to the sender and out of her email.

[MyOneAndOnly]

and you trusted her with your mind?

[smashingjj]

yes, being old-fashioned and not internet-savvy doesn't imply bad skills as a psychologist. she's retired now.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly

my therapist uses Vsee for video sessions. it displays me in a small window on my screen that I can't hide or minimize. And because i have issues with being visually distracted I am unable to stay focused on my therapist's face on the screen. And i end up staring at myself the whole time.

it sounds silly, but it fucks with my head and triggers my OCD.

The sessions simply don't feel as productive as when I am in her office staring at the floor while I talk to her

dude same. not OCD but i can't stop fucking looking at myself

she did use it to show me how fucking strange my trauma smile looks, so that's a plus. she went from vsee to something else and now therapyportal. that something else you could hide yourself but you can't with therapyportal. but that other thing crashed all the time.

i once spent like 30 minutes talking about how the person in the video chat doesn't look like me

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Disco King

It's awkward when I have telephone appointments with my therapist or psychiatrist and have to move from room to room to dodge my family.

this is such an invasion holy shit

[reprise85]

i am grateful we have video therapy vs no therapy, but i do miss seeing her. i did see her in the park one time last month

we are going to do EMDR over video chat, should be interesting

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by reprise85

this is such an invasion holy shit

To be clear, my family isn't, like, purposefully trying to eavesdrop on my therapy sessions. I haven't told them I'm having these phone therapy sessions. They just might walk into a room, not knowing what I'm on the phone for, and I'll have to move to a different room.

I don't feel comfortable just telling them, "I have a sensitive phone call and would just like to let you know that I'll need privacy," because knowing my mom, she wouldn't just go "okay" and leave it at that. There would be a barrage of questions. "Sensitive phone call? About what? Why won't you tell me? I'm your mom!"

Even when she found my meds and found out I was getting professional help, she was upset that I didn't let her know, and kept on asking me what it is that's troubling me so that we can "work on it and fix it," and would get upset that I'm not comfortable discussing my mental health with her, because "I'm your mother."

[mxzombie]

my cats are the same way.

[mxzombie]

it's a nightmare!

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by Disco King

To be clear, my family isn't, like, purposefully trying to eavesdrop on my therapy sessions. I haven't told them I'm having these phone therapy sessions. They just might walk into a room, not knowing what I'm on the phone for, and I'll have to move to a different room.

I don't feel comfortable just telling them, "I have a sensitive phone call and would just like to let you know that I'll need privacy," because knowing my mom, she wouldn't just go "okay" and leave it at that. There would be a barrage of questions. "Sensitive phone call? About what? Why won't you tell me? I'm your mom!"

Even when she found my meds and found out I was getting professional help, she was upset that I didn't let her know, and kept on asking me what it is that's troubling me so that we can "work on it and fix it," and would get upset that I'm not comfortable discussing my mental health with her, because "I'm your mother."

oh ok that's not so bad, w/r/t invading therapy sessions

rest of it sucks though i'm sorry