Posted by alexandra_k on March 16, 2014, at 16:35:16
In reply to Re: Support is what Dinah Seeks » Dr. Bob, posted by sleepygirl2 on March 14, 2014, at 20:36:54
So I didn't follow all of this...
But I got to thinking... Remembering... Around the time of hurricane Katrina. How things fell apart for a lot of people. How you held things together really well. Better than your therapist, even, ha. Better than most people. How you do that on the boards sometimes, too. Hold things together. Find your calm. In the storm.
I think I have that tendency sometimes, too. I think. I see a little bit of that in me. I wonder if it comes from living in a state of almost chronic alarm most of the time. People might think that we don't have good coping skills because of living a lot of our lives in crisis... But then when something external sends other people into that same state of physiological arousal the person who is used to it functions best.
I don't know if that makes sense. Or whether it is true or not. But it helps me think about the lab... Helps me feel better about it. I was totally focused. for 2 hours. Until I realised I needed to do calculations on something I forgot to write down (thought that was what the pre-lab was for) and that I needed to double the scale on the x axis which would have made the numbers align... oddly... with the little squares on the graph paper and i mentally gave up on the math. That's a pretty good first effort. It... Won't get any harder than that, actually.
I sort of imagining your therapist pulling things back together in a little time... Seeing sense. Or something. Anyway... Not sure if I'm up to speed on things... Or making an awful lot of sense... But I wouldn't be terribly surprised if this storm, too, comes to pass.
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