First, we were to get to Dulles around 8:00 PM.This would put us home around 10 or 10:30 PM. Not so bad. Now the Jet Blue flight doesn’t leave the gate until 8:30 PM. We get in after 10 PM. By the time I collect my wife’s luggage and we drive home, it will be after midnight. I suppose it could be worse.With the unpredictable weather patterns currently, there could be further … [Read more...] about Why Does JetBlue Keeps Pushing Back Our Return Flight?
Individual Therapy
My Psychiatrist Asked Me, “When Is Enough, Enough”?
Last night I had a virtual therapy appointment.I remember my therapist had asked a question and I was responding. It was my side of the story I was relating. Not just the facts or my feelings about it, but I was defending my actions. My decision and why I made it was a source of pride I suppose.My therapist stopped me and said, “I hear rationalization.”He had caught me, and I … [Read more...] about My Psychiatrist Asked Me, “When Is Enough, Enough”?
Getting Back to Therapy Wasn’t What I Expected
For some reason, I envisioned a breakthrough session last night.By the end of the zoom meeting, I thought all my cares would be lifted and I would have found a nugget of truth I could work with until the next session. My anticipation of our first meeting under the new framework was hard to contain. After all, we had done some great work together.It was February 5th when we last … [Read more...] about Getting Back to Therapy Wasn’t What I Expected
What Depression Doesn’t Want You To Know About Unhelpful Thinking Styles
Predictable, steady, expectable, certain, sure, unsurprising, humdrum, obvious, and foreseeable.That is my life.And that has been my life for several months. I guess it is always something. Depression has clouded my life with generous helpings of unhelpful thinking. A year ago, I was fixated on not being able to get started in the morning. It took five months of talking about … [Read more...] about What Depression Doesn’t Want You To Know About Unhelpful Thinking Styles
What You See May Not Be What You Get
I see eyes and a mouth ready to eat me if I get too close.That’s what I see as I sit in my therapist’s office waiting for my appointment. Maybe I watched too many cartoons as a child. I see the raised couch cushion forming an upper lip, while the frame underneath becomes the bottom of the mouth. And the tops of the sofa arms, become eyes.But if I go over, all I will find is … [Read more...] about What You See May Not Be What You Get