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0 pointsarkitaip4y ago0 comments

Have you had therapy?

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Yes. They mostly wanted me to take a lot of drugs, and there was talk of experimental brain surgery, and I just don’t want any of that - whole damn process just made me more stressed and anxious - so now, I just smoke weed from when I wake to when I pass out.

I’m damaged, but functional - managed to build a house with my own hands this spring, while writing an ISO27k1 ISMS, while living off grid - I don’t just sit around on the couch - hell, don’t have a couch.

So yeah. Coping rather than being cured is the best many can hope for - and I’m just about coping.

arkitaipOP4y ago

I'm so sorry to hear that, really. It's a shame you didn't find a better therapist, sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you find one that gets you.

I hope you find a path forward where you have health and happiness.

ghusbands4y ago

Not everyone can be "fixed", especially via therapy. Sometimes, coping is all you can aspire to.

mrfusion4y ago

Don’t underestimate the value of lying on the couch. Also consider a hammock. Very peaceful.

madaxe_again4y ago

Oh, I have the optimal hammock, between two trees, on the riverbank - I can dangle my fingers in the water, surrounded by birdsong in dappled shade. It’s where I spent the rest of yesterday.

It does get better - consciously, I’m a much happier and calmer person than I was - but whatever part of me it is that screams in their sleep and kicks me out of bed in the pre-dawn hasn’t improved one jot. I wish it would.

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madaxe_again4y ago

So yeah. Coping rather than being cured is the best many can hope for - and I’m just about coping.

arkitaipOP4y ago

I'm so sorry to hear that, really. It's a shame you didn't find a better therapist, sometimes it takes a couple of tries before you find one that gets you.

I hope you find a path forward where you have health and happiness.

ghusbands4y ago

Not everyone can be "fixed", especially via therapy. Sometimes, coping is all you can aspire to.

mrfusion4y ago

Don’t underestimate the value of lying on the couch. Also consider a hammock. Very peaceful.

madaxe_again4y ago

Oh, I have the optimal hammock, between two trees, on the riverbank - I can dangle my fingers in the water, surrounded by birdsong in dappled shade. It’s where I spent the rest of yesterday.

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