I hope my dream was a good omen for the bb humpback in Oregon ♥️

Thanks. Hope so too, this is definitely the worst one I've had in awhile. 🫠

Ahh, I hope so too!

Their office is also a couple blocks away from the Lenin statue, which amuses me

I was just realizing in the middle of my own therapy session yesterday that there's a whole fucking list of ways the pandemic impacted me that I still need to process through... it's crazymaking that we didn't actually address it collectively.

I want to have a whole conversation about this.

Thanks. Hope so too!

I feel like it's not so much the pain but the body horror of actually being the to insert the needle that gets me- at least with the auto-injector, all it felt like I was doing was clicking a button and *it* punched itself into me. I think I need the psychological distance??

Short person here who never wants to burden anyone or otherwise look like a ridiculous not-adult by asking for help... please do feel free to offer to help!

This was much more tolerable back when I had an auto-injector pen, 😭😭😭

Jealousss

Back to Seattle proper, finally! I'll be in a cute lil spot on the border of Magnolia (rich people neighborhood loll) and Interbay (industrial vibes)- close to Discovery Park (massive urban park!) and the Ballard Locks (salmon ladders!). It's absolutely perfect for me, I'm very excited!

In my exp, the nature of long-term depth therapy also allows for more of a "companionship" vibe with the therapeutic relationship, which I think can be helpful for people stuck with external circumstances they can't change. We can't change this, but we can talk about it and not be alone in it, etc

Depth therapy tends to be more holistic and the focus isn't generally on targeted symptom management/eradication- which can help in crisis- but more so on insight (which sounds like you're oriented toward) and from there, space for new ways of being with yourself/others, different choices etc

I'm a therapist with cPTSD who's also in long-term therapy- so I'm biased toward, yes therapy works for people like you. But it can depend on type of therapy and also the therapist. If you haven't already, you might look at depth therapy- psychodynamic, existential/humanistic, narrative etc