Coming to terms that maybe that I don’t have as much going wrong with me mentally as I thought. I went into therapy for credential reasons, to say that I have issues than what I see everyone else do and that’s self-diagnose themselves. Well, I know that I do have some things wrong with me but the severity isn’t as grand as I thought.
It’s good because maybe there’s a chance here that I can try to manage all of this, without being drugged up.
The bad news is, is that, there’s been so much destruction in my life due to these issues that I thought were severe, then having to explain who remains with me about what’s going on, what’s been going on .etc
There’s just so much exposition and everyone I know has the attention span of a housefly.
Became step siblings as children 30ish years ago. Didn’t live together - just holidays, summers, etc. "Reconnected’ recently. Family is…conflicted, confused, … I don’t know anything about being stuck under a bed. I’ve recently learned that step siblings is a big genre of porn. Is the bed thing from that?
I’ve learned that you can’t convince some people. For me I go there to educate about transit use now to them, I view it more as community outreach than social media lol. Some will just regurgitate fox news at you.
Others, though, and I’ll say the majority even, are misinformed and haven’t heard the other side before. They are genuinely curious, there may be an initial comment or two of regurgitation but I’ve found that patience and kindness is something they don’t expect, and they’ll open up once they realize you aren’t there to argue.
Usually I start with the Socrates method, just ask why they think that. Usually more regurgitation, maybe with some random stuff that has nothing to do with the original point. So I ask a more targeted why, and that’s when we start actually having a dialog. Usually I won’t get them to change their mind, but just learning that they can have an open conversation with a demmycrat will change their views a bit. They’re so entrenched in their echo chamber they don’t know who we are
Then there are people who are just genuinely asking questions, which I’ll jump on before some hate monger does. Things like “I’d try transit but idk how it’s so confusing”. I’ll sit with them and explain how things work and how they might try it the first time
Figuring out chronic illnesses. If you've got something other than the "basics" like diabetes or arthritis, it's a shitshow that can take years, a dozen or more doctors, tens of thousands of dollars, and endless medical tests.
The medical system is not kind, my diagnosis was all of 5 minutes and almost definitely wrong. That was after fighting with my GP to get a referral to the right specialist…
I reckon the worst part of a chronic illness is when you don’t realise it’s abnormal, I just assumed everyone else was just as tired and sore as me.
Not me, but my friend. Had a relationship with a girl he met in an MMORPG.The girl was still living with her ex-husband and had not divorced yet. And she lived in another country across the ocean. The couple were doing therapy. My friend had hopes this would be his chance at love. How could I be a downer when he was in love.
Trying to sustain a long distance relationship whilst her husband, my ex-friend, was trying to impose his insecurities on us. My husband was indifferent to all this and my energy was being drained doing a degree and working full time.
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