So I actually heard from someone via Orkut. I can’t remember if that’s ever happened to me before or not. Anyway, I went to check out this person’s profile and realized mine was way out of date. Someday, I swear,…
The Geek Who Understands You
So I actually heard from someone via Orkut. I can’t remember if that’s ever happened to me before or not. Anyway, I went to check out this person’s profile and realized mine was way out of date. Someday, I swear,…
The most screwed-up people I’ve ever encountered have also been those with the greatest aversion to the very idea of therapy. One, in fact, has a phobia of mental health professionals—for herself and for her children. That doesn’t mean that…
In another journal, someone reacted to a suggestion that he seek therapy as if that were a terrible insult. It was obvious that he didn’t and wouldn’t consider that suggestion seriously. Therapy’s for crazy/unstable people I’ve certainly heard “you need…
A nice lady wrote to me recently, provoked by my post about our DFCS experience. She wrote about it on her blog, too. The Divilbiss case was a topic of constant discussing in forums related to polyamory back in 1999.…
This is take two of an article I wrote a few weeks back (when I had a brain!). It’s a companion piece to the one for college students with FMS—an introduction to FMS for educators. I’d appreciate feedback from anyone…
This began as a comment in a friend’s locked post. I’ve edited it a bit since this is public, but there’s something that has been on my mind since the flood of “No Pity, No Shame, No Silence” entries. As…
I posted part of this as a comment in hopeevey‘s journal, then decided to stick it here. Hopefully, I won’t have to learn these lessons yet again next time around. What have you learned that isn’t here yet? 1) Declutter!…
My pain is mine. My process is mine. My grieving is not about anyone else. I have to process the grief and the pain and the nasty stuff that wells up from time to time. I know from experience that…
For some reason, I’m thinking about infidelity again. No, there hasn’t been any in our relationship recently—certainly not that I know of! But once it has happened, it isn’t possible to “forgive and forget.” Anybody who claims to have done…
Note to self: Next article to write is “How to be an evil stepmother” Current Mood: 🙂amused
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