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With my previous therapist I was able to email, call and text between sessions if necessary no questions asked and even though he didn't always respond quickly he did respond. My current T allows me to email between sessions if its urgent but is clear he is not a crisis therapist. I can also...

Thank you everyone for the input it has been a long week and a half and just the idea that someone might be interested in me sent me into a major downward spiral. I haven't been to work all week I have been a mess, afraid to be around people. I haven't left the house in four days, my T has...

Okay I think this man I met recently casually asked me out in an email but as I haven't been on a "date" since 1993 and I never dated in the traditional sense before I got married I don't know if I am reading something in to this or not. Background, I am single, hetero, have been divorced and...

I too was guilty of the once I started talking I couldn't stop and never really knew what I was saying and while it all made sense to me made it hard for others to follow. It is still a struggle for me outside of therapy. In fact when I know I have an important meeting where my responses and...

@Cypress I am in a similar but slightly different position. Been with my T for about a year and he is the one temporarily relocating for 4 months. We are taking a two week break and then will try teletherapy, I am terrified as I have attempted teletherapy with a different therapist and it was...

@Starfire you are right sometimes a bat is just a bat. I made it through the week. Didn't get the "prosperity" but then again also didn't end up with me or someone close dead. What I did get is permission from work to take three weeks in a row off later this fall. Still not sure what I am...

@scout86 thanks for the support honestly if I hadn’t been able to secure my bedroom including plugging the area between the floor and door bottom I might have slept in my car now I wait for the professional that is supposed to figure out how he got in and prevent it from happening again.

Yes, I was able to get rid of the bat and have a company coming to figure out how he got in. Not going to lie, really glad I am not going to be home tonight and that it happened this week when I will be out of the house for 12-18 hours a day most days if not longer because the guy coming to...

I have been struggling a lot the past few weeks and not exactly having a good weekend. I looked up after I finished my book today and hanging from the molding near the ceiling across the room (my bedroom) from me a bat was hanging down. I hate bats but knowing it was the weekend and knowing...

I guess I will find out this weekend what the alternative contact/messaging options are as I promised that I would check in. Less than 12 hours until son moves into the dorm and honestly this is though not as tough as last year is not easy. I am an empty nester and this year I know what that...

Good point and I should make the time at Monday's session to do just that. He asked that I reach out to him this weekend if I need to as it has been a rough month and he is concerned that after my son returns to school on Friday that I may just give up the ghost. Honestly this time last week...

@Sideways you are right that what he wears really has no indication of how professional or effective a therapist he is and as I have gotten feedback from people here in this thread I think that his clothes/appearance is something that is bothering me because it does bother me that he is leaving...

I have attempted teletherapy before right after the move. I am hoping that this time goes smoother as I have an established relationship with my T I am not attempting to establish one through video conferencing. The technology was the issue, there was time lags with the video and audio, the...

I could change before I leave work but the way the restrooms are placed in relation to my office I would prefer not to, I don't like to advertise to clients in the lobby that I am leaving work early for the day every Monday. Can I re-adjust my perceptions, I could but there comes a time when I...

@Friday shifting therapy 15 minutes isn't possible as he has a client right after me so I would essentially lose 15 min of my time. Also, stopping to change not really an option, I drive just under 90 minutes one way to see this therapist as I am currently living and working in a very rural...

As a mother of a teenage boy I am aware of this current sock fashion, but alas he took one shoe off during our session to scratch his foot and nope, no socks. Sort made him more human to me but as a woman that still believes in wearing pantyhose with dresses/skirts and knee highs with slacks I...

I have been working with my T for not quite a year and the weather this summer has been warmer and more humid than normal. As a result his office has been borderline uncomfortable temperature wise during many sessions. As someone that works in a professional environment my session is a place I...

This is interesting but questionable for me. I have taken topiramate off and on over the past decade as an off-label med for chronic migraines. Took it both as topiramate and the extended release reformulation trokendi xr Can't say I saw any fluctuation in my hyperarousal symptoms but if it...