Luckily, our SSDI got deposited yesterday, so we should have money for a
cab. (hopefully, as long as the ride doesn't cost more than twenty
dollars) So we are waiting for our cab to come which we asked to be here
at seven. That will give us plenty of time to get there. Probably too
much, but we would always rather be very early than late at all.
Been up since early early this morning. Couldn't sleep. Had really bad
nightmare. The kind that gets us so mixed up that we v*mit. Still
feeling a little queezy, so it's good we didn't have to walk to five
miles uphill to get there. (Our thrpst's office is right on the
foothills of the Rocky Mountains.)
We are going to go wait outside for the cab now, so we're there when it
comes and they don't have to call for us to come down.
--
-slunky
ok
hope you get there ok
-- astri
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We did. It was only a five minute ride from here by cab. We tipped the
driver four dollars. He was pleased at that. :) So very tired now.
Talked a lot. Got sick. One of the others talked lots too. Had
flashback. Hugged a stuffed bear. Cried lots.
T explained lots of things. The little that was talking to her told lots
of scary things. Some things we pretend didn't happen. Some things I
didn't know about too. She said she has a clearer picture now. She said
where we grew up has "pockets" of these people. She said the man used
mostly "traditional methods" of pr*gramming. She said we all were very
brave today. Me and the little who won't say their name for telling, and
the others for letting us.
--
-slunky
wow
powerful session
Yes, very powerful. So much information. Very tired. T just called to
check on us, but we didn't hear the phone ring. We only know because it
did ring to say there was a voicemail. She said she was thinking about
us and wanted to tell us we all did a fabulous job today and very hard
work, and she wanted to make sure we got home ok. She also wanted to
remind us that she will be in the mountains this weekend so her phone
service will be spotty, but she'll check her messages and call back when
she can, and to try to use the safe places we made if we need to while
waiting for her to call back.
Oh, she just called back in the middle of this post because we left her
a message that we got her message. She said is good we are trying to
rest because it was a hard session. Lots of hard work, and she wanted to
tell us she cares about us. Is good to have a t who cares about us.
--
-slunky
she really keeps in touch!
Yes, and we are really glad she does. She said she wants to be as
dedicated to helping as we are in getting better. She asked us in
session if we wanted to end twenty minutes early because we were really
feeling nausiated, but we told her we wanted to stay and how we want to
feel better, and she said she knows and she is impressed by when we told
her on the phone earlier this week we would just walk to thrpy if we
couldn't take a cab today. She also said she was only asking if we
wanted to end early because she doesn't want us to feel trapped there or
like we have to stay. She said it's ok for us to say it's too much and
stop for the day, and to never feel bad for doing that to take care of
ourselves.
--
-slunky
Yes. You all were very brave. I'm so proud of you and so glad you
could do that.
Juniper
Yes. You deserve a T who cares about you.
Juniper
Good. She sounds really good.
Juniper
Just wish it didn't make us so tired or so sad or so mixed up.
--
-slunky
She is. She knows so much from other clients that she is good at
helping.
--
-slunky
What always worked for us was to take the last (about) 10 minutes
to get grounded and talk about jello. That way we could leave the
session feeling at least somewhat focused on the present and someone
who could get us home was aware they needed to be in charge.
Rainbow Colors (Jill)
We spent about the last ten talking about other things (don't remember
exactly what.) Her next client didn't make it so time ran over another
fifteen minutes while she put things away.
--
-slunky
> _/ Juniper <jun...@asarian-intl.org> wrote \_
> > In article <slrnh4sob2...@evo.zero>,
> > Yes. You deserve a T who cares about you.
>
> Really?
Yup.
Juniper
Yeah. Maybe that will ease up as you do it more and more. It would
make sense to me that it would.
Juniper
Ok.
--
-slunky
Ok, hope so. Lots of people said the flashbacks would get easier, but
they haven't.
--
-slunky
:)
--
-slunky
well, yeah, they do get better. but not at first. cuz right now the
alters need to get it out and talk and that takes big toll. they don't
get better, in my experience, until some of the alters talk and feel
the feelings of them.
Agency thrpst said if we just coped now we would get used to them.
--
-slunky
Well, that just shows she doesn't understand them.
Surely it's obvious that flashing back is re-experiencing, not mere
pallid 'remembering', and therefore that one doesn't get used it any
more than one 'got used to' the original experience?
Baba Yaga
who today rediscovered the power of smell to send one back the
years...
--
Without our shadow aspects we'd be bland, dull, incomplete.
- Juniper
I think we have enough information now to say that she didn't know what
she was talking about.
Juniper
--
Hearts cannot be bound to orthodoxy.
We actually believe agency thrpst would suggest we just get used to it
and cope if it was happening now.
> Baba Yaga
> who today rediscovered the power of smell to send one back the
> years...
--
-slunky
Ok. Guess we can stop thinking about what she says since she severed
things monday. Only tie now is to the court and that she has our palm
pilot in her desk.
--
-slunky
> Baba Yaga
> who today rediscovered the power of smell to send one back the
> years...
hope was a pleasant sending?
can you get the palm pilot back?
Probably. Would mean calling her.
--
-slunky
maybe you can call her in current t.'s presence so it's not so
triggering.
Agency thrpst never answers during that time.
--
-slunky
Leave a message?
Really don't want to.
--
-slunky
Okay. Maybe the palm pilot can wait.
Ok. She has had it in her drawer over a year.
--
-slunky
maybe you could have current t send a letter to agency t with a copy of
a signed release saying you want all notes and personal property
turned over to current t. then you don't have to deal with agency t at all.
--
But a reality check here: this is not some great moral failing. It's
part of learning to be securely human in a confusing world. - Baba Yaga
why has she kept it?
That would probably work. Since agency thrpst has cancelled all future
appointment already, there isn't anything holding us back.
--
-slunky
Last year a couple weeks before we started DBT, we asked her if she'd
record something for us so we didn't call her or her voicemail so much.
She said she would, so we brought it to her to use to record. She never
did. She kept saying she would, but she never did.
--
-slunky
when is your next commitment hearing?
don't do anything playing with the terms of the commitment without
consulting with your advocate/attorney and your current t.
blah
Sometime in October. We will get a letter.
> don't do anything playing with the terms of the commitment without
> consulting with your advocate/attorney and your current t.
Yes, we would call the Dept of Psychiatry because they run civil
commitment court and find out first.
--
-slunky
She kept making excuses about it. Finally we just stopped asking.
--
-slunky
too bad you didn't get your palm pilot back then
Yeah, but she said she would still record it.
--
-slunky
:P
Last time, she brought it up that it was in her desk, and she had just
forgotten about it, but we were inpatient at the time.
--
-slunky
hi gathring we always happy to see you post
hi
We talked about the agency some today in thrpy. She said the agency
really hammers new thrpsts there with lots of supervision to mold them
to policy.
--
-slunky
yup. that happens at the local mh centers too. young people come in
eager to help and are pummeled with the policy and with "what's
proven" and "what really works" -- thinking outside the box is *not*
encouraged!
Our t said we might have done some good to see her for so long though,
and let her know what really works. She said someday maybe agency t will
go private practice and have been inspired by us to do tr*uma work. We
can only hope. :)
--
-slunky
Yes. :)
We know agency thrpst had at least a little interest in us because she
kept notes for the agency on her computer, but would sometimes jot
something down in a journal during session, and would refer to the
journal about things we told her on the phone, so she was taking extra
notes.
--
-slunky
Probly a good thing I moved then *grin* I'm sure I would have been
fired or considered 'weird' or whatever. I know I wasn't tolerating
all the propaganda they were shoving at me when I worked at the
agency in IL. I tended to argue 'but with this client x works better'
and my supervisor would try to tell me that I was wrong and I'd
tune her out cause I don't tolerate people arguing with my reality
*grin*
OTOH, it is true that people come out of college with weird ideas on
what is going to cure schizophrenia or bipolar and they get all hung
up on how terrible it is that someone has to take meds. _That_ doesn't
help either!
Rainbow Colors (Jill)
You know what would _really_ help here, a few years from now contact
her and let her know how great you are doing as you heal and point out
to her what worked. That will help her learn a lot.
Rainbow Colors (Jill)
Ok, (she won't be mad?)
--
-slunky
sigh
no wonder your agency t got worse over time
Yeah. :( T was trying to explain to us about mental health c*lts today.
She wasn't saying they are one, but she was relating it to that.
--
-slunky
that's what triggered us so badly about dbt -- the pounding of the
same terms and stuff until they lost practical meaning felt c*ltish to
us. and the pressure to conform and use that model, and the insistence
it alone will work, the insistence on ignoring all else. and the
emphasis on p*nishment for not conforming. hugely hugely triggering.
Yes!
--
-slunky
> By the time we stopped going, she had gone off the deep end about
> acceptance.
sounds like she got some sort of religion :P
> She said it was ok for her to m*nipulate because it was in our best
> interest.
oh, yuck
yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck
today wanted t to tell us what to do
she wouldn't
said being controlled by others is what caused our problems
(or something on that order)
Hmmm..... We do know she married a m*rmon, but we'll leave it at that.
--
-slunky
Agency thrpst said she knew sometimes we wanted her to tell us what to
do.
--
-slunky
no
:(
Not if she is open minded and learning. If she isn't... by then you
won't care and she won't have any power over you.
Rainbow Colors (Jill)
Ok.
--
-slunky
maybe would help to talk about it? post jello?
you isolating?
dunno, can't
> you isolating?
yeah
hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> hi gathring we always happy to see you post
>>>>>
>>>>> hi
>>>>>
>>>> life getting any easier?
>>>
>>> no
>>>
>> :(
>>
>> maybe would help to talk about it? post jello?
>
> dunno, can't
>
regrets.
do you mind if we keep talking to you and asking questions?
>> you isolating?
>
> yeah
<sigh>
anything we can do to help?
hi
Thanks
> do you mind if we keep talking to you and asking questions?
no
>>> you isolating?
>>
>> yeah
>
> <sigh>
>
> anything we can do to help?
dunno
here and listening. sorry it's hard right now.
here
k
will wait
yw
i will, too.
can you give maybe one word?
yw
>
>> do you mind if we keep talking to you and asking questions?
>
> no
>
k. hmm...
you getting any you time?
drumming? painting? photography?
>>>> you isolating?
>>>
>>> yeah
>>
>> <sigh>
>>
>> anything we can do to help?
>
> dunno
k
maybe we'll make you a hidey hole with blankies. can crawl in and camp
out in there
<settles in to wait>
getting time
> drumming? painting? photography?
can't
>>>>> you isolating?
>>>>
>>>> yeah
>>>
>>> <sigh>
>>>
>>> anything we can do to help?
>>
>> dunno
>
> k
>
> maybe we'll make you a hidey hole with blankies. can crawl in and camp
> out in there
k
pistachios please
k
>> drumming? painting? photography?
>
> can't
>
:(
regrets
<hands you some pistachios>
is hard.