**(I am bad at this, but trying really hard to get better.)
Compared to me, you are the Lewis and Clark of neural pathway forging.
I spent yet another fruitless hour trying to evoke an emotional response in therapy this morning.
Gunn: You saying popping mama threw you a beating? Lorne: Kid Vicious did the heavy lifting. Cordy just mwah-ha-ha'd at us.
'Underneath'
Spike's Bitches 49: As usual, I'm here to help you, and I... are you naked under there?
Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Tom Scola - Dec 13, 2017 10:47:13 am PST #2841 of 8216
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2017 10:50:34 am PST #2842 of 8216
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Compared to me, you are the Lewis and Clark of neural pathway forging.
Didn't they get eaten by mountain lions? (Or am I remembering the Simpsons version of Lewis and Clark?) (My knowledge of history, US or world, is comically abysmal.)
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2017 10:53:14 am PST #2843 of 8216
brillig
Everyone needs a Sacajawea.
Fred Pete - Dec 13, 2017 11:01:28 am PST #2844 of 8216
Ann, that's a ferret.
And a way to ditch those incorrect/unhelpful/etc. emotional responses is to actively replace them with a new, different response, and keep enforcing it to create a new neural pathway.**
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is big on restructuring negative thoughts, with the belief that restructuring thoughts leads to changed feelings/emotions and changed behaviors.
Dana - Dec 13, 2017 11:04:06 am PST #2845 of 8216
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Pretty sure Lewis and Clark made it back and did not get eaten by anything.
I have a pill prescribed. I hope it's enough.
Connie Neil - Dec 13, 2017 11:07:24 am PST #2846 of 8216
brillig
Mantra for therapy: "Did not get eaten."
Steph L. - Dec 13, 2017 11:10:25 am PST #2847 of 8216
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Pretty sure Lewis and Clark made it back and did not get eaten by anything.
The Simpsons' take on history isn't accurate? t gasp
I have a pill prescribed. I hope it's enough.
What is it/what dose?
Dana - Dec 13, 2017 11:15:12 am PST #2848 of 8216
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Don't know yet. I guess I could have asked. I just said that I hoped it was potent, and she said it worked for most people. Which is what the MRI person said about the big machine.
WindSparrow - Dec 13, 2017 11:44:35 am PST #2849 of 8216
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Lewis and larke made it back ok, but one or the other of them had a shady-as-heck death afterwards.
Not completely relevant.
But it's all I have at the moment.
Scrappy - Dec 13, 2017 12:04:59 pm PST #2850 of 8216
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
My therapist called my well-worn anxiety track the "Robin Death Spiral." She advised me to learn to recognize it and then do what I had to to to get sucked into it YET AGAIN. It took a long time, and anti-anxiety drugs helped a lot, but learning that I did not have to go down that path was huge.