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Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 12, 2025 4:32 pm
by Monkey_Driven
spike wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:What face do you have a problem with?
JD Vance's
that's fair

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Thu March 13, 2025 2:35 am
by Dev
spike wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:What face do you have a problem with?
JD Vance's
A very ugly guy

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 2:27 am
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 2:31 am
by spike
tragabigzanda wrote:Tonight's session was held outside on a small farm. The sun was just setting, these goats kept head-butting me and one tried to eat my phone, there were a few horses milling about. Just a handful of dads talking about their feelings in rural MT. So dope.
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Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 3:34 am
by Higgs
tragabigzanda wrote:Tonight's session was held outside on a small farm. The sun was just setting, these goats kept head-butting me and one tried to eat my phone, there were a few horses milling about. Just a handful of dads talking about their feelings in rural MT. So dope.
Wait - I'm a Dad. I didn't know I was allowed to have feelings! This changes everything...

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 8:12 am
by Ello Sailor
Trag, how many times did you mention Josh Brolin was a great hang?

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 4:47 pm
by Sloppy Dupree
My therapist doesn’t make a lot of declarative statements but she did accurately deduce it’s hard for me to open up to people. When she’d said it, it felt like a lightbulb going off.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 4:50 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 5:00 pm
by daft twat
Sloppy Dupree wrote:My therapist doesn’t make a lot of declarative statements but she did accurately deduce it’s hard for me to open up to people. When she’d said it, it felt like a lightbulb going off.
And what do you do with that information then?

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 5:03 pm
by Sloppy Dupree
daft twat wrote:
Sloppy Dupree wrote:My therapist doesn’t make a lot of declarative statements but she did accurately deduce it’s hard for me to open up to people. When she’d said it, it felt like a lightbulb going off.
And what do you do with that information then?
I joined a message board and started oversharing.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 5:09 pm
by BurtReynolds
You should open up to us about your true identity.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 5:14 pm
by Sloppy Dupree
BurtReynolds wrote:You should open up to us about your true identity.
My name is Robbie. I’m a Technology Consultant (company name withheld). I’m from Philly, but work has taken me to Singapore and England. Just got promoted and moved to Pittsburgh to manage the city office. I’m recently divorced. I’m afraid of being alone yet I’m painfully shy. My favorite Pearl Jam albums are Vitalogy and No Code.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 6:59 pm
by The Argonaut
welcome to the board :)

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 7:50 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
I recently had a new therapist (through the VA). When I talked about my mental health issues, every response was something like "well, that shouldn't make you sad, think about the positive of it!". Every single issue I brought up was that. I requested a new therapist.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 7:56 pm
by Strat
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I recently had a new therapist (through the VA). When I talked about my mental health issues, every response was something like "well, that shouldn't make you sad, think about the positive of it!". Every single issue I brought up was that. I requested a new therapist.
is your therapist on RM?

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 7:59 pm
by Jorge
E.H. Ruddock wrote:I recently had a new therapist (through the VA). When I talked about my mental health issues, every response was something like "well, that shouldn't make you sad, think about the positive of it!". Every single issue I brought up was that. I requested a new therapist.
I had a similarly frustrating experience a couple years ago with a therapist who wanted to tie every. single. one. of my frustrations back to my parents' divorce. His analysis felt very facile and skin-deep

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 8:04 pm
by Strat
i have moved on from my therapist. It has run its course. I am in a really good place these days and feel equipped.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 8:10 pm
by Ello Sailor
tragabigzanda wrote:
Ello Sailor wrote:Trag, how many times did you mention Josh Brolin was a great hang?
In real life I suppress my joy way too heavily to share a thing like that.
Wait... is Trag a... cool hang?

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 8:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: breakthroughs in therapy

Posted: Wed March 26, 2025 8:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.