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Posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 21:14:40
Dentist was supposed to check his tooth a week ago and still hadn't called and my jaw is still throbbing. I called and left a message and they didn't call back today either.
It's been three days and CrisislineLady still hasn't got back to me. She said before, "feel free to contact me anytime - we're here to help". I give up with these places. All they do is get the tiny bit of hope I have left up and then leave it to fall. Again. Again. They have NO idea how long it took me to contact these places that everyone suggests. Just like before. Just like always. There is no one to help because no one really gives a sh*t.Things are so messed up. Stuff is going on in sessions that I know aren't normal. But then T does something incredibly generous and helpful - especially because I don't have a physician right now. He takes care of things I couldn't have organized myself. But then there's all the other stuff that is making me even more insane than I am. And something I'm finding really hard is that I can read stuff on the board about what other T's have said or done, and my T *has* done and said those things, and they felt like nothing. But then when people say that that was good of the T it gets me really confused. Or if people say that they wish their T did/said that it makes me really panic cause I feel like I'm missing something. Or misjudging things. I mean, am I just dead inside? Is my heart cold. But something else that's confusing me is that sometimes during these past few sessions I've also kinda been wanting T to do "something" - there's this disgusting urge, this feeling that I need, or want, to do this. That's so disgusting. I'm such a f*cking pervert. WTF is going on in my effed up head?! I would die if that happened - I think - I don't know. I don't understand why my disgusting head is making me feel like I should act this way right now. (he's not even doing anything) I don't know ANYTHING anymore.
I also am having a hard time being triggered (though I don't like using that word, I don't think it's appropriate for what I'm describing) by nearly everything. I've had another elevator freak out. A guy ran to catch the door before it closed (and I would've been alone inside). And just him running in with such force felt like he was chasing me or something. I so almost stuck my hand in the door before it closed on us so I could run out. And I spent the whole time fighting the urge to not start screaming. When I got off at my floor I had to sit in the bathroom stall for awhile. It felt safe that you could lock the door - even though the stalls are open at the top and bottom.
But not just man stuff, my emotions are getting very very sensitive to any emotional stimulii. Like even reading strong feelings of others can just have my level turn up and go through the roof. I cry so often and then as tears are dying down I drift into that zombie stare where if you let your head catch onto a phrase or word it just starts repeating in your head louder and louder. It's like trancy or something. And silence sounds like loud feedback. It happened when I was trying to take a shower without falling over, and I cut myself (I'm pretty sure by accident) with my razor. The only thing that makes me wonder is where it is. I worry I'm gonna start not knowing when I do it. But part of me wants that to be happening again. I can't stop hurting. I've not been so bad in so long.I finally have my ultrasound this Fri and I'm sure that the lab technician will see marks. They're gonna see and hate me. I already think it's gonna make me go crazy cause one's a gross ultrasound. And I'm going out of my mind worrying that the technician is gonna be a man. I think I'll either run out the door, or kick him and start screaming. Even if he seemed gentle and nice my head would tell me that it was a trick. They would only assign female to a female, right? Or do normal people not care about that sort of thing. I can't describe how much I'm dreading this.
I can feel a pain flare-up starting. It's bad when both happen together. Today I was just sitting in a silent blob on the couch and I told T that I want to die - I've been fighting the pain from this illness every single day for nearly a year. I have nothing worth living for. Nothing makes me happy. And he said that maybe I should work hard to lose weight!!! I had the bubble-head feeling and my hearing started whooshing in my ears. I stammered out, "Do you think so?". And he said that it could be good. I started silent-crying cause I've never heard anybody say that to me before since AN!! It's always been the opposite! I've just never ever heard that! Maybe it sounds stupid, but it's crushing to me. I told him that I CAN'T do it like that anymore (from being ill now)(which I was already so ashamed about) and he said that I can re-train myself. I want to just die! Did my new fatness make me get this other illness? He said that I've always said that I felt good and healthy when I was AN (which I did/do think), and now I am opposite, so he said he'd be a liar if he tried to pretend that some people aren't just happier when they keep their weight low. God I just can't believe that he said that. He's no stranger to ED's. He knows every single facet of my history. He even had me bring in pictures of my lowest before.
But maybe it's true. I know he wants me to be happy and not suicidal, so this must be true. I'm just so humiliated cause I really don't think I have it in me to do it - even if I wanted. I'm such a f*cking fat loser dumb bitch. I can't even do the only thing I was good at before. I confessed to him that I just can't, I want to but I can't, exercise at all being like this so I'd have to eat nothing for months to see anything. I said that I should just do coke with bro instead. And he said, "Would the side effects help? Could you handle it?" I know he wasn't endorsing it, but these reactions are just blowing me out of the f*cking water. I hate myself. We started talking about me wanting help to die, and he said that he remembers me asking that of him before, and he asked again if it would help if I knew that if I got that desperate that he would. I don't know what he was going to say - I changed the subject back to a plan for me to lose weight. And then for the last 15mins he suddenly switched to talking about his stuff again. Though I think it was cause he thought talking about all my bad stuff is bad for me, and wanted to make me in a lighter mood.
I'm losing any motivation I have left for anything. I don't want to fight for my health - I lie in bed and think of never leaving to beg another doctor to take me. Done with tests and xrays and bloodwork. I don't want to fight for my mind. I want to let whatever is happening happen. Nobody gets it. there's nobody. no one's listening or gives a sh*t. safety nets are gone - weren't even there in the first place. you are only as visable as your worst symptom. my health is not coming back - and no one's even trying to figure out what to do. i will not go to the hospital like family who went their and never left. dentist will not even help me have my mouth be one part of my body that's pain free - even though I've given so much money. i can't stand it. i cry so hard i start wretching. these two helplineladies knew why i was calling - i told them the basic everything. I guess it's not that big a deal. I mean, it can't be or WHY!! Where are they!!?! I overreact I'm crazy i don't need help for real. I feel like a pathetic fool for thinking that all you have to do is ask for it and it comes. i want to die - i want to know when I will be brave enough. I never am. Today will just repeat over and over forever. I want to let SI take over. Every single part of me is tired and I'm going crazy, and my heart is going to burst. what to do. Help me know what to do!!! please. i can't stand this all never stopping.
Posted by muffled on October 25, 2006, at 21:50:03
In reply to please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI...?, posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 21:14:40
El, I'm so sorry your having such an ongoing hard time at the moment.
Could you phone the dentist back again?
Could the crisis lady help you connect to mebbe a pastoral counsellor (they often have a sliding scale-and wouldn't know your T). Or look in the phone book. Or phone a church.
You have many things to work out.
It sure would be helpful to have a irl T to help you map out a plan of what to do bout things.
Maybe in the meantime you could try to make a list of things that are trouble, and priortize what needs to be done first. Then have sub lists, and work on them.
Little little things, pick away at untangling the tangled web of El's life.
You really need a T of some sort to help you on this journey.
I think at this point the T doesn't necc. need to be highly trained, just clever, tough, and persevering.
As far as not feeling stuff, your not cold, you've just shut down cuz this T relationship you have is overwhelming you.
Thinking of you El,
muffled
Posted by canadagirl on October 25, 2006, at 22:09:02
In reply to please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI...?, posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 21:14:40
Hi Elaine, you sound like you are having a really really hard time. I am so very sorry to hear about all the stuff that's happening to you. Somehow, Elaine, I get the idea that you do have inner strength despite all you have been through. You write: >>I overreact I'm crazy i don't need help for real.<<
I don't think you're crazy at all. One would have to be quite strong, to have gotten so far despite all your pain and emotional suffering. You ARE a worthwhile person who DESERVES to be well. And DESERVES to get help. I am so sorry the crisis lines and other resources have been such a letdown. Don't give up on yourself. Muffled's idea might be a good one. What about the Salvation Army or something? At my last job I referred a lot of people to them and they seemed to get good help for all kinds of things. Also United Way has a bunch of agencies and they can let you know what kind of help is available if there's one in your area. Hang in there.
Posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 23:12:04
In reply to Re: please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI...?, posted by muffled on October 25, 2006, at 21:50:03
>>>>Could you phone the dentist back again?
I know I'm just going to have to, but I can't the very next day. it's too humiliating. i hate that i'm not rich. i know that's why i don't matter to him - no nice insurance company he can charge for all these procedures. he should've just pulled them all at the very beginning. who cares.
>>>>Could the crisis lady help you connect to mebbe a pastoral counsellor
I can't send her another message. I really can't. I can't see another one not returned. If she wanted to deal with me she would've sent even a small message. She said before that the agency they usually refer to is full but that if I came in she'd give more info on resources. The idea makes me cringe cause I've had numbers being thrown and me since spilling my guts to that PsychCenter back in May or June or whenever. And then Assault counsellor from school. And the First line I talked to.... Why call a line to get given more numbers?....sigh....I'm sorry. Anyways, I figured I'm so desperate I'd show up just to see another person for a few minutes. But then she hasn't got back.
I've been doing my best. I don't update on everything here, but I *have* been trying to reach out to places here lately. I think that's why I'm taking all the rejection even harder.It's true I definately feel overwhelmed, but about the "cold heart", I don't think inperson gestures made toward me mean anything to me. Between two others, then I can be quite moved. But not when stuff is connected to me. Even before things got wierd with T, he said nice things about my character, or stuff I said, what he thought of my efforts - and it didn't feel like anything. Actually, I've never had a male say such things said to me before. Maybe my head doesn't understand. It's hard to compare because LadyT and LadyDoc were never so overt. But now that I think of it, I do remember feeling really cared about when LadyDoc cried a little when I read her my goodbye/thankyou letter.... i don't know. my head feels either jammed full or completely empty....
I bought a new foam roll. I want to sleep tonight:( I need to go to sleep. My muscles in my legs are shaking.
I'm thankful you speak to me....at least you answer me :') I wish I could help being so desperate and sad, but I can't. Sometimes I can get myself really scared cause I'll think, what if I never found this board back then. I mean, what would I have done? Would I be worse than right now? Is that possible?....it makes me nervous.
.....when will this stop
Posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 23:47:02
In reply to Re: please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI...?, posted by canadagirl on October 25, 2006, at 22:09:02
Thanks. I wish. But honestly I think it's just a frantic fear.
>>>>I am so sorry the crisis lines and other resources have been such a letdown.
This was just something I never ever expected. I've always been terrified of ever finding myself needing to contact places like that. And then still, I just knew within myself that I could never do it. (social phobia...) It took me long enough to post on here the first time. It sounds pretty stupid but I feel like people can see me through the phone or computer and it makes me very self-conscious. I don't even like seeing myself speaking on the phone in the mirror. Even that embarasses me. Anyways, I know I don't explain everything that happens with me, but I've been feeling terribly desperate and unsafe, so I tried contacting one place. THen another. Both didn't answer. Now this other group who had respond before, is just not getting back. It makes me feel like a piece of sh*t. I can ask, but somebody else still has to answer back. I can send out all the pleas in the world but that doesn't force them to respond :'(
I'm trying to hang on, because I get to meet in person with my old LadyT for a "checkin" in FEB [sososososo far:( ]. I'm trying to last but I feel inside me that I'm just not gonna do it. I worry about not seeing Christmas. I promised myself that when this started that I would not tolerate living like this longer than a year, if they did not find how to make it disappear or even just die down for awhile. I know it sounds melodramatic but when anything extra gets added on top of being sick then it's like my brain just goes mad. When two (teeth, and kidney/pelvic stuff) gets put on top of what was already draining me dry, then it's like being on super drugs. I can't control myself, and waves of tears just whip me up into frenzies where I can't control myself. It's scary. I hate it more than anything - its like being helpless inside yourself.
I don't really even care about SI anymore. It's back normal. Everything from before is gone - my big string of nothing ended a while ago now. I don't even care that it makes me uglier. The only stupid reason I care a little is that I really worry that doctors will treat me differently because of them....And maybe they should :(
I'm trying to calm myself so I can try and sleep. Got an email from T. I won't even say what it said - doesn't matter. I emailed back to see if he would make me a plan to lose weight, so I can try and learn without doing the same stuff as my brother. And i know I can't restrict that much cause of my insides (ewww sorry). They already don't work, so I have to keep eating stuff so they won't become even less active. So maybe tomorrow he will have sent me an idea....I'm just so afraid that I won't be able to even try. I hope tomorrow is an okay pain day. ..... I hate waking up. It's the worst part of the day. The end is so far away then :( It makes me never want to go to sleep. Cause when I first get awareness in the morning, it's like there's a milli-second of hope that maybe I'll have some health back - like magic. And then I move, and I can feel the eight-ball in my side, and then I'm ready to give in again.
Thanks for caring. (((CG)))
Posted by canadagirl on October 26, 2006, at 5:39:19
In reply to Re: please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI.. » canadagirl, posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 23:47:02
>>>This was just something I never ever expected. I've always been terrified of ever finding myself needing to contact places like that. <<<
It's a scary thing to do. But you did it. You somehow found the strength.
>>>I'm trying to last but I feel inside me that I'm just not gonna do it. I worry about not seeing Christmas. <<<
Don't give up Elaine; take one day at a time. One hour at a time if that's all you can do. Pain can make us feel like that.
>>I don't really even care about SI anymore. It's back normal<<
It must be very hard when you feel so awful. There have been in the past while had some days when you haven't SI although you've been on the edge of it. What made the difference then?
>>> emailed back to see if he would make me a plan to lose weight, <<<
!!!!! is all I have to say to that. :-)
Take very good care of yourself today.
Posted by Lindenblüte on October 26, 2006, at 8:41:53
In reply to Re: please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI.. » ElaineM, posted by canadagirl on October 26, 2006, at 5:39:19
Oh Elaine,
Well, one of the reasons why you're not able to connect with your T the way that other people on the board seem to is because we are all different. The really good sessions with the right things being said- well, those are kind of rare, and special. Can't expect that to happen every week, that's why when they DO happen it's so amazing.The other reason why you feel no connection to him is because he doesn't feel SAFE to you. You write about your sessions as if it's a continuing trauma that you must somehow endure. Is it any wonder that your body shows up to the sessions, but you have very carefully built a wall up around the stuff you know that he will be able to hurt you with?
Therapy is not an ongoing test to see if you're strong enough to endure more trauma and abuse.
You can tell yourself that he does incredibly kind things, but you know that your heart doesn't "buy it". That's why your heart won't allow you to feel connected with him.
The thinking "rational" part of you makes a decision to go to your sessions. The "feeling" part of you ties itself in a big inpenetrable knot and barely makes it through week after week. Is it any wonder that when you get home, the knot starts to loosen and unravel and you are then able to emotionally react to the awful situation that your "therapy" has become?
Maybe it's time to listen to that part- when it says "I'm hurting" it's BEGGING your thinking decision-making part to pick up the phone and make the calls. You have to take care of your "feeling" parts, because they only have so many ways that they can protect themselves, and it sounds like they've reached some point that's unbearable for much longer.
The nice thing about doing what your feelings are begging you to do is that afterwards you can "FEEL" relief. This is so much more satisfying than doing what our "logical rational thinking" parts ask us to do. Those parts are kind of slippery anyways. They can rationalize most anything and spin most any horror into being some other thing altogether.
you take good care. I'll be thinking of you. (pick up the phone? please?)
your friend,
-Li
Posted by sunnydays on October 26, 2006, at 9:33:26
In reply to please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI...?, posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 21:14:40
((((((((((ElaineM))))))))))
wishing you strength and happiness
sunnydays
Posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 12:04:22
In reply to Re: please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI.. » ElaineM, posted by canadagirl on October 26, 2006, at 5:39:19
>>>This was just something I never ever expected. I've always been terrified of ever finding myself needing to contact places like that. <<<
>It's a scary thing to do. But you did it. You somehow found the strength.
I know. I'm not at all bothered by needing to now. I guess cause once you get to a certain place there's no point in fearing it happening - cause it already did. I just get really down that I have to resort to the last resorts. It makes me so sad that I have nothing else but those. I wouldn't call it strength, but *something* pushed me through the anxiety and embarassment of reaching out. I mean, I'm so afraid of people, especially on my own, that I can't even comprehend that I did it as many times as I have. Because of that, I just really really wanted it to make a difference.
>>Don't give up Elaine; take one day at a time. One hour at a time if that's all you can do. Pain can make us feel like that.
I do do that one hour thing. I wouldn't have made it to the spring if I let myself think too much of the horribleness that was waiting. An hour takes so long to pass when you have to approach life that way. It's strange - the last year has both felt like it was an enternity, and that life is just slipping away in the blink of an eye. I guess cause it's just been a waste. It's so woe-as-me but I just want to scream at the top of my lungs, "I've done my part! When is this gonna be enough?!!!" :""(
Oh god, I'm sorry. I just can't stop talking like such a downer. Every post just comes back to the same thing. I'm gonna push everyone away with my "Ya, buts..." I'm sorry, it does mean something to me when you answer.
>>> emailed back to see if he would make me a plan to lose weight, <<<
>>!!!!! is all I have to say to that. :-)I just want to see where he goes with it. I had asked several months ago if he thought me losing weight would make a difference. And I guess he assumed that I meant for aesthetic reasons, and he said that he liked the way I looked just fine. I mentioned it once more briefly (cause my mind is just grasping at straws to figure this illness out, and make it controllable) and asked if he thought it would make a physical difference. Cause I don't remember feeling sick ever when I was AN. Only once I started recovering each time. Of course that *is* when the side-effects would be seen most. I know that part - by it's very very hard not to remember feeling "strong" and taking so much assault on my body and STILL being able to be a robot - when all the doctors were saying, Oh she's so sick, You're so unhealthy, You're making yourself ill! I never felt it then. So my dumb brain still connects thin to feeling healthier. I know how much I destoryed myself with that, but sometimes my head still has a hard time connecting the cause, to the after-effects. Plus, what I have now could've been building then and just hadn't manifested yet. Could've happened if I had never been anorexic at all.
When I wanted him to clarify if weight could maybe, tiniest possibility, make a difference to this now, I figured I'd get the same old lines. But now when HE was the one who mentioned it, and he knows the body, I assume that he must kinda know what he's talking about. I'm not a doctor. I know nothing about physiology other than the tiny ED-related part that I picked up by osmosis when in treatments. I can't believe he would suggest something so "dangerous" if there wasn't a small chance that it could be the right thing to try.
Honestly, I'm kinda praying that his answer is, "Whoa, what was I thinking. I must've been dumb yesterday. I change my mind." But if it's not, then I have to try it. I MUST just try. I asked him that if this is the right thing to do, if he'd tell me what to try to not hurt myself. Though, I know that I just don't have the body or mind resilience to have it be a risk at relapsing. I'm so so far from even being close to what would signal a potential relapse. Plus, I would never be so disrespectful of the body the way I was then. It's not possible for me to starve with my bones and bowels like this. I would never do it like that. I just want to please god find something to make a difference here. It doesn't even matter what I look like. It was never about that anyways. I never want to be like before. It's not about wanting that back. I just want to find a variable that makes a change in how my body is falling apart. Anyways, he hasn't got back yet.
>>>Take very good care of yourself today.
I did do something nice. I called my gram cause it's her birthday. She so old and precious. It's hard to help her understand more but I love when part of it connects. And she seems to like the staff there. I love her.
Posted by Racer on October 26, 2006, at 13:07:05
In reply to please explain me and this **trigs ED, SI...?, posted by ElaineM on October 25, 2006, at 21:14:40
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> Things are so messed up. Stuff is going on in sessions that I know aren't normal. But then T does something incredibly generous and helpful - especially because I don't have a physician right now. He takes care of things I couldn't have organized myself. But then there's all the other stuff that is making me even more insane than I am. And something I'm finding really hard is that I can read stuff on the board about what other T's have said or done, and my T *has* done and said those things, and they felt like nothing. But then when people say that that was good of the T it gets me really confused.
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> And he said that maybe I should work hard to lose weight!!! And he said that it could be good. He said that I've always said that I felt good and healthy when I was AN (which I did/do think), and now I am opposite, so he said he'd be a liar if he tried to pretend that some people aren't just happier when they keep their weight low. God I just can't believe that he said that.
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> But maybe it's true.Elaine, you do know better. You know that AN isn't a healthy way to live. You know that you can't decide to go back there in order to get better -- you can only go back there in order to get sicker and sicker and sicker still. You know that.
I'd be lying if I said I didn't think there was a problem. I do think there's a very real, very significant problem here. (No, silly, not you!) From what you've written over the time I've seen your posts here, I have formed an opinion that this guy does NOT have your best interests first and foremost in his mind. I've formed the opinion that this therapist is dangerous for you. What you've written above is so outrageous I'm almost lost for words.
I'm not going to say much more, because I really have had an emotional reaction to this. I'm pretty hot right now, so to protect myself from being incivil, I will make the rest of this pretty short...
If I had to guess, based only on what I've read here in your posts, I'd say the reason you're not responding to certain things the way others do is that you don't have the trust built up that others here might have, or might be building. I would guess that you don't trust your T, and that's why the things that are good for others aren't feeling good for you.
I know you have some difficulties with access to other Ts. I hope you do find a new T, someone who really can help you. Someone you can trust. Someone who's dedicated to helping you satisfy your needs, not using you to satisfy his/her needs. It hasn't ever sounded as though you've got that now.
Best luck, Elaine. I hope things get much better for you soon.
Posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 16:31:53
In reply to Re: please explain me and this, posted by Lindenblüte on October 26, 2006, at 8:41:53
>>>>>>The really good sessions with the right things being said- well, those are kind of rare, and special. Can't expect that to happen every week, that's why when they DO happen it's so amazing.
I know they can't happen all the time - infact I don't ever expect them to happen at all. Maybe I'm also just uncomfortable with compliments in general. He's called me courageous for living through all I did growing up, and that he's proud of the intelligent thoughtful person I've become despite hard stuff. He says he's continually amazed at how strong I am enduring all these medical things. He says he would do anything in the world to take away what's wrong with me, pay for my teeth too. And even though I know he's completely genuine when he says stuff like that (regardless of the other things he also says), I could barely feel him say those things at all.
>>>>>The other reason why you feel no connection to him is because he doesn't feel SAFE to you.
I'm sad that I think that's true. I don't feel in danger there, like he's gonna smack me or worse, but that he is not strong enough for me to be weak. But how can a person deeply care and NOT themselves be set off-balance and hurt when another is feeling sad? How do you know if caring is real then? How can anyone feel safe that way? (I think I'll leave the rest of this idea for later)
I used to feel spooked that he would want to hold me so much, but that had started to subside. That's also why I had wanted him to return my last email so I could see if that's what he was trying to say he wanted to start up doing again, or not. (I wanted Not) But then if it would make him *feel* strong enough inside to appear stronger for me, maybe it would be worth it......Li, he said that it would make him feel better at least if I did let him hold me while I spoke....???.... :( He said, "So is that okay?" I know he's not liked here, but how do I sorta say No in a really really nice way. I know I don't need to "be nice" but if I don't feel that he wouldn't be hurt by my answer then I just won't be able to say anything. I feel bad using it like this, but would it be disrespectful for me to kinda use my ED history as an excuse, and say that I feel too fat to let him touch me. And then maybe I can say that only hugging before goodbye would help me.
I need help with this part cause I'm supposed to go to him after my ultrasounds tomorrow. Help with this part please.>>>>The thinking "rational" part of you makes a decision to go to your sessions. The "feeling" part of you ties itself in a big inpenetrable knot and barely makes it through week after week.
I never thought of it like that. That does sound true. I haven't been able to help saying all those horrible thoughts in my sessions lately, though I do shutup pretty quickly cause a reassuring, or structured response never comes. I feel his scaredness when I speak like that. Often he ends up just staying in silence. But then I just feel like I need to find something to break the silence and I end up just blurting out an equally horrible (or repetative) statement.
But it's true that I usually just end up keeping it in and then either I panic-blowup all over myself and SI happens, or I flood all over you guys here. I want him to stay with his T. I want his T to make him strong. And then I want him to share his strength with me by knowing what to do with me more when I don't do therapy right. When I don't know how it's supposed to go. When I can't break silences. When I have bad symptoms get worse. I mean, what do other T's say then? Maybe I'm holding him to standards that don't really exist. Like, what would another T say if a client seemed like they were getting worse, and was wanting to die? Would they not just also say "I'm sorry you feel that way", "I want you to live", "Hospital", or also maybe a hug or tear. OR is the difference that T's can show weaknesss but it has to only be at the right times, and not most of the time. Or I guess you're saying that the same actions or words can be judged differently (like mean more to others) because of the way the relationship feels leading up to it?....okay I have to stop cause I'm talking myself confused.
Posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 17:26:20
In reply to GRRR! **ED trigger** » ElaineM, posted by Racer on October 26, 2006, at 13:07:05
This is mostly a reply to Racer, but I didn't want to tag it like that to give her even more of an option to NOT read it. But R, if you were at a point where you felt okay to open this then it's replies to some of your stuff.
[I'm sorry you got triggered. I hope it doesn't upset you or stay with you]==========
>>>>>Elaine, you do know better. You know that AN isn't a healthy way to live. You know that you can't decide to go back there in order to get better -- you can only go back there in order to get sicker and sicker and sicker still. You know that.
Oh I know. Racer, I really really really know that. I promise. I would never do any more damage to myself - I couldn't afford it.
>>>>>>What you've written above is so outrageous I'm almost lost for words.
I felt the same. I'm sorry if I sound a little dumb during the posts talking about this. My brain is kind of in shock or something. I'm baffled that these weight loss things are coming at me from the opposite side. It's so disorienting, so confusing.
>>>>>>I have formed an opinion that this guy does NOT have your best interests first and foremost in his mind
I don't think he consciously wants to do or say the wrong thing to me. I know he wouldn't hurt me on purpose. I think that's why I feel so guilty. But I also think it's the same reason why I feel scared. I know I probably sound stubborn and stupid but it's really only been these latest comments about weight-loss that have deeply struck something in me. God it's just so confusing. THe ones who I trusted to tell me I shouldn't lose, who gave me as a recovering AN to T, who has dealt with others with the same problem (or B), has me now being told I maybe should lose. ?????? I'm sorry I'm harping but I can't let it go.
[I'll put what he replied at the end incase nobody wants to read that part, though it's not really ED bad]
IT's so strange to me that I can't not believe that he MUST know what he's doing. I mean, he MUST! Everyone in the world knows that you just wouldn't say that to someone who has been so sick before. There must be a really important reason. Maybe this WILL somehow help with the other thing. ....?.......?..........
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Posted by Racer on October 26, 2006, at 21:06:00
In reply to about T's reply *******ED trigger*******, posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 17:26:20
> This is mostly a reply to Racer, but I didn't want to tag it like that to give her even more of an option to NOT read it. But R, if you were at a point where you felt okay to open this then it's replies to some of your stuff.
> [I'm sorry you got triggered. I hope it doesn't upset you or stay with you]
Ah, I wasn't triggered in an AN way by that -- just a "Elaine deserves better than that" way. ;-)I don't know what to tell you, except that I do think you deserve better, and I hope things improve soon. I've got an ultrasound on Friday, so I'll think good thoughts for you, if you think good thoughts for me, 'K?
Posted by Lindenblüte on October 26, 2006, at 22:00:13
In reply to how is regular? » Lindenblüte, posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 16:31:53
> >>>>>The other reason why you feel no connection to him is because he doesn't feel SAFE to you.
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> I'm sad that I think that's true. I don't feel in danger there, like he's gonna smack me or worse, but that he is not strong enough for me to be weak. But how can a person deeply care and NOT themselves be set off-balance and hurt when >another is feeling sad? How do you know if caring is real then? How can anyone feel safe that way? (I think I'll leave the rest of this idea for later)
There are SO many different levels of caring and support. If you feel something, then it's real-- that's the best you can do! You cannot force yourself to feel things. It's okay to admit to yourself that feelings change over time. Trust me- 10 feet away is the love of my life, and I feel kind of ambivalent. pretty numb. It's not ideal, but hey- that's what it is. I can't force it. But I will go cuddle with him in a little while and see if I feel something maybe through body language- because just looking and talking and laughing with him is not really making me feel connected. frustrating.
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> I used to feel spooked that he would want to hold me so much, but that had started to subside. That's also why I had wanted him to return my last email so I could see if that's what he was trying to say he wanted to start up doing again, or not. (I wanted Not) But then if it would make him *feel* strong enough inside to appear stronger for me, maybe it would be worth it......um. how would you respond to me if I wrote this?
>>Li, he said that it would make him feel better at least if I did let him hold me while I spoke....???.... :( He said, "So is that okay?" I know he's not liked here, but how do I sorta say No in a really really nice way. I know I don't need to "be nice" but if I don't feel that he wouldn't be hurt by my answer then I just won't be able to say anything. I feel bad using it like this, but would it be disrespectful for me to kinda use my ED history as an excuse, and say that I feel too fat to let him touch me. And then maybe I can say that only hugging before goodbye would help me.
That sounds reasonable- but what if he starts to try and "work" on that? It sounds like he doesn't have experience with ED, and he might totally say the wrong things?
How about if you say what you feel "For whatever reason, I'm not feeling very safe these days. I have a lot of anxiety, and I am getting triggered by things that usually don't bother me (like the elevator thing). I think it might be more comfortable for me if we can just have a quick hug when I leave."
> I need help with this part cause I'm supposed to go to him after my ultrasounds tomorrow. Help with this part please.I am not much of a helper. I hope someone else has some ideas? I've never had to negotiate this with a guy, much less my T.
> >>>>The thinking "rational" part of you makes a decision to go to your sessions. The "feeling" part of you ties itself in a big inpenetrable knot and barely makes it through week after week.
you know, being a T is a really hard thing. Being My T has special challenges- in that I don't really have access to my feelings often, and when I do, they are often overwhelming, distressing, and out of control (in my opinion...). Being your T has challenges too. I think it's okay to admit that your T maay be a good guy. He may be a great T for some folks. He may even have been a great T for you- if you had met him in a couple of years. But he's a very poor T for you right now. You know that, but I'm appalled that he doesn't. When my exT realized just how much he was triggering my anxiety, and just how hard it was for me to feel safe to open up to him (Patient presented with study-skill problems... Patient terminated with intrusive flashbacks of recurrent child abuse) RIGHT. so, at that very SAME session- he picked up his calendar- gave me a phone number of my newT and told me that she had a lot of experience working with people who were going through things like this... And he had my best interests in mind. Even though I'm sure as a T it would have been lots of fun for him to go poking around in my subconscious to see what other delights were lurking there.Like I said, it's a demanding profession. He's not a complete loser if your "t" is not up to the challenge. I hope you can find someone who is, 'cause you deserve more. It sounds like you're at a point in your treatment where you need less challenge and more support.
your long-winded friend,
-Li
Posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 23:35:02
In reply to Re: how is regular? (**child abuse trauma mild**) » ElaineM, posted by Lindenblüte on October 26, 2006, at 22:00:13
Li, you make things sound clear and smart. Maybe he *is* good but not for me, or not now that I'm like this. I'm not his usual. Though he is not new to ED's at all. With me though, up until last meeting we've never really ever talked about food or weight or any symptoms of anything (except me being to scared to do more outside things) It wasn't necessary - the illness killed whatever was left of AN. But since I am different, maybe it's like all his knowledge and other experiences can't be applied to me. (And I do know that he has other big stuff going on in his life right now - that I've chosen to not write about in public)
I like that you're "long-winded" - I need things explained that way. ((((Li)))) I'm pretty dumb when it comes to understanding things and people. I could always write papers at school but it used to amaze me cause I'm so clueless about nearly everything else in life. I distrust everything I think I know, and usually everything someone else tells me.
Before in his reply..........T said.....that he sometimes wants to hold me in his arms like a small child :"( and that he can imagine rocking me :"( ......... but then i remember what he said before :(..........and WHY did he have to have said that then!!!!???? WHY!!!! This could've been a nice thing to say but NOT when he's said BOTH! NOT! :"( ....can he not remember......that's just not, not things that go together. I wanted to throw up. I thought I was going to. my stomach was sour.......it could've been nice........I can't stop thinking i've ruined this supposed-to-be comfort thing......I...can't stop worrying that I made that other part come, and i made the two opposite things together! I can't stop thinking. I didn't mean to. but I don't think I did, but I can't remember good so maybe i always forget everything. okay i'm having a panic attack! :( my heart is heavy. But maybe he doesn't think the before part now, anymore. Maybe it's erased and so it was gone before this, and so then it would be more ok. That has to be true. i mean, it's probably got to be true. I should go to sleep. I hope it comes blank. I wish I was living with LadyDoc. i want to email her right now but she'd be scared by my craziness. I should email helplady. I'm scared really really scared she will not answer AGAIN! I can't take it one more time. WHy is there no one!! I don't want to say something crazy if i type now. I can't spell right now. oh god what if there's no answer. Maybe I'll try one more time tomorrow cause that's what everyone says. I'm scared for tomorrow and grossness. I'll try and remember that Racer is doing same on the same day and it will be alright for us both :(
Posted by Lindenblüte on October 27, 2006, at 6:48:23
In reply to Re: how is regular? (**child abuse trauma mild**) » Lindenblüte, posted by ElaineM on October 26, 2006, at 23:35:02
((((Elaine))))
I'll write more later, just wanted to give you some safe hugs from a friend.
I know that you were feeling really bad last night-- I hope you were able to get some rest.
take care today, okay?
-Li
Posted by ElaineM on October 27, 2006, at 16:58:24
In reply to Re: how is regular? (**child abuse trauma mild**) » ElaineM, posted by Lindenblüte on October 27, 2006, at 6:48:23
Li thanks for that little message. You are one of the dearest people I've ever met. You give so much to so many who post - even frustrating ones like myself (didn't say that to get a "no you're not" back either). It really helps you know. Makes a difference to me :')
[sorry if that feels awkward]I went to ultrasound this morning. It hurt alot to drink that much - and fasting. It always hurts to drink at all - I don't usually have that much liquid in an entire day. The hardest part was that they didn't offer any draping (if you get my drift). It was quite humiliating. I spent the whole hour frozen like a statue, and scared that someone else would barge in the door - though I saw her lock it. I've never been THAT exposed during one - but I was too shocked to say anything. I just wanted all the images captured so I could leave. She did tell me at the end that she wanted to redo some of the internal - and I just flipped out :( I started panicking and repeating in a soft robotic voice, like, "No. no i can't now. i can't do more right now. I'm not comfortable with more today." She said that the report may have inconclusive parts, but I hope what she has is enough. I'll just have to go back, but I knew i had enough for one day. I'll just have to wait now and see.
I'm so weepy. Alot happened today (not all sh*tty). I'll write more later. I'm tired and sore :-(
Posted by Karolina on October 27, 2006, at 21:45:52
In reply to got through ****med procedure » Lindenblüte, posted by ElaineM on October 27, 2006, at 16:58:24
Hey Elaine,
I tried to b-mail you but I'm not sure if it sent (??) I'm glad your ultrasound went well for the most part and that not all of your day was sh*tty. I just wanted to say hi and that I'm sorry 2 all of you guys because I haven't been on the boards in a long time (I feel really bad about it)
I hope you get some good rest and please let us know how you are.
-Karolina-
Posted by Lindenblüte on October 27, 2006, at 22:21:20
In reply to Re: got through ****med procedure, posted by Karolina on October 27, 2006, at 21:45:52
Hi Karolina,
don't feel sad for being away. It's okay. I don't know you well, but I know you from your archived posts, and I'm glad you dropped by. Please don't feel like you dissappoint us!
*****Hi Elaine,
no, what you wrote wasn't awkward. That's a really sweet thing for you to say. I felt kind of bad, because I kept on thinking I would have more time to post on babble, but events transpired against me. I've been having a lot of depression, and it's hard to get stuff done. Plus, husband made me get up and go do a halloween event that he had tickets for. I did my hair in a mohawk. It's really amazine, because it actually stayed. I suppose having short baby-fine hair actually has a few things going for it. Husband likes it. thinks I should wear it more often. I have a bit of "attitude", though. I'm not sure if I can pull it off.I'm glad to hear that your procedure is over. Next time you go, you can always ask the nurse for a blanket or a drape. You can make the excuse that you get cold easily. It doesn't have to be about privacy. Ugh. I HATE it when drs. forget that there's a PERSON in front of them. HELLLOOO??!? As if the procedure is not invasive enough, they add whipped cream, nuts and a cherry.
((((((soreElaine))))))
I hope you can do something for yourself to make the pain go away, or feel different, or move to a new place, somehow?
Have a happy fried-day night,
feeling the seroquel. I think you got the last good part of my thinking today! Lucky you!
-Li
Posted by ElaineM on October 28, 2006, at 12:53:11
In reply to Re: got through ****med procedure, posted by Karolina on October 27, 2006, at 21:45:52
Hi Karolina: I've been thinking about you. Don't worry about not reading much - it's probably a good thing if you've had other stuff going on. I hope you're well. I think you posted recently that you got back together with boyf? I'm happy for you.
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Sorry, I meant to post more yesterday, just to finish up, but I was exhausted. There really wasn't much more.I went to T. We talked about what I should do to start modifying my diet. He's picked a level to start at that I'm probably eating right now anyways (or maybe a bit more) - normal for my age and height. Though he did say the goal would be to work lower. He had sent another email answering my question if this was *really* what he thought was best, and he said that it is what he believes at the moment, and that it *is* his opinion that it may make a difference in my body's health and possibly help my other illness get better. I am still confused about what I think though. I wish I had more medical support right now. Maybe I'll mention this to GI guy while I'm there next month - though he's only concerned with the stuff that's his specialty. (and he probably won't know anything about my main diagnosis)(but at least he's familiar with my ED history) I'm very hopeless feeling now - getting to that empty, dejected state again. I don't want to care about anything anymore. I'm so tired of it all.
And then, again, after 15minutes we switched back to him for over an hour. I like helping with other's problems if I can, I really do, but... I don't know. [I know that a client's not supposed to be talking about the therapist's stuff, but it's not like we've had a conventional relationship for a long time now.] But now, we don't really talk much about me anymore at all. I know it's cause there's nothing he can do to stop the feelings like I want to die, or the SI, or panic, or even just sadness, and he hates realizing that. There's nothing he can say or do to take any of it away, and we don't like silence, so I guess he just wants to fill it. Maybe he thinks his stuff would be a good destraction for me from my own bad stuff - I do get that vibe from him sometimes. But this is all just a repeating of all my sessions lately......sorry I'm redundant. I won't mention this stuff again unless something different happens. It doesn't do anything to be writing about it, in the end it's only words. :( I'm fine. I may just need a little break. I don't know. I have no good feelings left at all, no control, nothing. Maybe I'm just tired. I feel like I'm shuting down.
I'm pretty scared of the "good" thing. Really scared of it. I think somehow it's what's making me feel so completely done. *sigh* So confused.
But thanks for asking. Nice to know you're still out there. And drop in here whenever you need to.
blove, EL
Posted by ElaineM on October 28, 2006, at 19:18:50
In reply to for Elaine » Karolina, posted by Lindenblüte on October 27, 2006, at 22:21:20
>>>>>>>I felt kind of bad, because I kept on thinking I would have more time to post on babble, but events transpired against me. I've been having a lot of depression, and it's hard to get stuff done.
No need to feel bad. I'm not your charge. And I know you well enough know that you care about many people here, and write what you can, when you can. I always appreciate everything others write, everything you write, but I wouldn't want it to ever feel like a chore or obligation.
Sometimes it takes me awhile to respond (and I'm not even going to parties). Was it any fun at all?I know you've been going through a low point right now. (((Li)))
>>>>Have a happy fried-day night
Was that an ostrich reference ;-) No really, has your head stopped sloshing? Physical pain and discomfort always makes everything else even more difficult.
Posted by caraher on October 28, 2006, at 20:48:41
In reply to Re: for Elaine » Lindenblüte, posted by ElaineM on October 28, 2006, at 19:18:50
Hi El,
I don't have anything brilliant to say... I just caught up on this thread (I've been busy at a workshop the past few days) and I'm sorry you feel so awful and have so much going on. I really think you need to refuse to let the conversation take the course your "T" wants it to take after only 15 minutes on you ESPECIALLY when he won't see a real T himself!
I can't help but feel that he has some kind of weird control thing going on. It sometimes seems as if he wants to see how much he can get you do by alternating inappropriate requests with acts of kindness. Like, in some twisted space inside his mind, he's thinking, "Let's see if I can get an ex-AN patient to start dieting to lose weight."
A family my wife and I were not-very-close friends with was torn apart about 6 years ago when the husband killed his wife and then himself. At the memorial service we spoke a representative of a local domestic violence help and prevention agency. We expressed our feelings of unbelief... the husband seemed a very charming, gentle man. She replied that it's quite common for there to be two faces to an abuser, one of which is probably what attracted the victim to him in the first place.
I hope your T is merely a very confused man, but out here in Babble-land we're going to form our opinions based more on what he does than anything else. And he has done and said enough really inappropriate and strange things that I can't help but worry whether he has some twisted motives and will harm you - probably not physically, but the injury would be no less real. Nobody here wants to see anything added to your woes!
Posted by muffled on October 28, 2006, at 22:14:54
In reply to long time no see ***mild ED » Karolina, posted by ElaineM on October 28, 2006, at 12:53:11
Posted by Lindenblüte on October 28, 2006, at 23:20:52
In reply to Re: for Elaine » Lindenblüte, posted by ElaineM on October 28, 2006, at 19:18:50
> No need to feel bad. I'm not your charge.
Oh my- that would be pretty funny. Li as the guardian of Elaine. I think the only thing I am capable of, in terms of caregiving is to make the occasional ice cream run. Maybe when I'm feeling incredibly energetic a load of laundry would be washed, but probably not dried. lol. Our place would be a pig-sty!! I try my hardest to reserve my mental powers for my student-activities, and for the daily conversation with husband and/or T. Other than that- there's only leftovers.
>And I know you well enough know that you care about many people here, and write what you can, when you can. I always appreciate everything others write, everything you write, but I wouldn't want it to ever feel like a chore or obligation.
Aww- it's never an obligation. It's an opportunity. I don't know why, but thinking about other people's problems and different ways to tackle a conundrum seems to pull me out of my introspection and make me feel somewhat human. Plus, I get e-mails to check on my threads, and I find a way to pass the time. the tick-tock, you know?
> Sometimes it takes me awhile to respond (and I'm not even going to parties). Was it any fun at all?
Well, it was okay. I went to a halloween party with me and a dozen of my husband's colleagues and spouses. Husband was a whore. I was a sheriff, so aside from feeling kind of out of sorts and manly, well, it was okay. I ate a lot of candy corn, and I drank 2 beers, which is not exactly on pdoc's menu, but c'mon. It's been over a month since my last drink. And we played board games. Fortunately, I never had to do anything embarrassing, like a charade for "low-rider". I kind of kept a cheerful face on. I'm good at that.
-Li
Posted by ElaineM on October 29, 2006, at 13:03:56
In reply to (((El))) *** violence/suicide triggers ***, posted by caraher on October 28, 2006, at 20:48:41
((((((caraher))))))
>>>>I really think you need to refuse to let the conversation take the course your "T" wants it to take after only 15 minutes on you ESPECIALLY when he won't see a real T himself!I just don't know how. By the time he switches, I've already used up whatever words I feel I need to say, and am sitting it awkward silence. It's not like I'm in the middle of a train of thought or anything. I just don't have anything further to say. I say physical and psychological symptoms I have, what I feel at the moment, and usually stuff about wanting someone to kill me. Then sometimes tears, and then silence. And then he switches. I don't know how to tell him what to say, or how to run a session, or what I need, cause I don't know ANY of that myself. i can say that I need more support, but what does that mean?! I need to give him concrete examples, but there are none. He can't take away anything that's wrong with me. I don't know what a different T would do.
He hasn't given up T entirely. He does have the follow up and i asked him that if he seems to need more once that meeting rolls around, if he felt he would be able to ask for *more* frequency. He said yes. And he's really doing alot more when we talk now. We're making a list of what needs to be said to his T. I've decided that pushing him to mention me makes him too defensive and discouraged. So I'm pushing on working on the stuff behind me. He seems to be making progress in uncovering stuff. It's at a really basic level, at an outlining stage, but it's a start. I just find it very tiring and extremely difficult to guess at how to do this. I'm recycling stuff that's been directed at me. I'm reading articles and books on what he's said are his problems. I'm trying to understand more about what T's think about seeing other T's so I can help more with that. I'm trying to say the right things to prompt deeper answers or self-reflecting (though it's probably way too early for that), and not just yes and no answers. [I'm trying to say this in a really superficial way cause I don't feel comfortable exposing specifics of his life and history. I already feel like I'm betraying his confidence in the most horrible way but...] I'm trying to think logically, but it's very panic-creating when I find my brain frantically trying to stay one step ahead of his responses, and think on my feet, and pulling smart things out of nowhere, and still be sensitive, when I'm cutting myself, and my health is so poor, and my own mind so unstable. How do you help someone else with *their* life when you want to end your own??? And I try to not let my age and gender influence my interpretations of what he talks about - I find that quite hard actually, but if I stay aware of it, I usually just hold back a too-personal response. I'm trying very very hard but I'M NOT TRAINED. I feel like a child trying to guide a blind bear through an obstacle course that I'm terrified of myself! I've taken a couple courses in university that involved mental illnesses, but please that's absolutely NOTHING. I'm not a student of Clin.Psy. THe best I know, is basically from MY OWN treatments - and that scares the sh*t out of me - for myself *and* for him.
But I'm hoping that if he can just get used to the idea of talking to someone about his own stuff, if I can help him to see that there's not just "nothing" for him to bring to sessions of his own, but TONS. If he can experience someone caring about his stuff and letting him be vulnerable (which is a joke of a thing for me to say. I want to kick the sh*t out of my two-faced self for spewing his stuff all over here while leading him to believe that I'm safe), if he can stay motivated until the appointment comes, then I think he'll commit to a more consistent and frequent schedule with his T, and then will begin to limit his stuff to his own sessions.
It is terribly hard for me to discourage him from speaking and sharing even if technically it is not appropriate, cause I know, I can feel, that this part of him has been hidden and ignored and pushed away out of some stoic professional shame. And a history of denying and avoiding intense emotions. Plus, he is going through a personal crisis right now. I understand completely how everything could be coming out right now. I can't tell him what's happening is wrong (even if I *was* assertive and brave and everything that's *not* me) cause it's not. It's the *right* thing, it's just happening with the *wrong* person. But I KNOW he would just shut-down completely, and destructively, if I criticized it in even the gentlest way. I will not do that. I can't. :'(
And I really worry that others might interpret what I've said as insulting or disrespectful of the T profession. Or that I think I'm smart, and can do from an armchair what others spend years of schooling and practise mastering. THe part that makes me so frantic is that I know I DON'T know anything. But I feel like it's come down to my sh*tty breadcrumbs of pretending to know - or absolutely nothing at all. I want this to have an end result of him staying with someone who *does* actually have the brain and the competence and experience. I just don't want people to be angry at me for trying my best in the situation.
>>>>I can't help but feel that he has some kind of weird control thing going on. It sometimes seems as if he wants to see how much he can get you do by alternating inappropriate requests with acts of kindness.
I just have a gut feeling it's not that. That he just wants to help so much, but doesn't know how. Maybe I just can't be helped. Maybe he doesn't realize he could be saying the wrong things. Maybe he's saying the right things and I need to trust that (that's what I'm thinking about the losing weight thing). He just MUST know what he's saying. It's too obvious to not make that suggestion to a recovering AN unless it was NEEDED for something else, unless it was the right thing that must be done.
Caraher (and anyone else who reads) I'm sorry. There's so much more you all don't know. So much more that would make all that's happening make sense - not in the sense that any of it's alright, but that it'd be more explainable. It's too personal to say, but it's there. I don't want to make him seem incompetent. He's not. He seems to treat his other patients effectively. He's very well schooled. He has ALOT of experience. He's respected by his peers. OThers know him (which also leaves me paralyzed and paranoid of speaking). I really think that a small part of what's triggering him is attempting a more nurturant-supportive approach - I think he's much more skilled and comfortable with the analytical style. [And again I feel like an a$$hole talking about all this, it's so obvious I'm trying so hard, and it sounds unsubstantiated and fake and ....?.....! Ahhhh! :"( ] I want you guys to give me ideas and tell me how to "mock-treat" him. I want instructions I can follow. But I know that's not gonna happen. And I know it's not fair to expect or hope that others can understand or help with the way everything effects me, without being given all the information. I just can't help asking for help anyways. :'( It's the worst rock and a hard place I've ever been in. *sigh*
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