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No. They say they need it for "verification purposes." But they don't have any other picture of me to verify it against, so it doesn't make sense to me.

They're not my employers. They are the operators of a web platform for connecting clients with people who can complete work projects for them.

Right? I'm thinking it must be against some kind of law to force someone to post a picture of themselves online. They specifically forbid these types of photos in the message. No cartoons of you, no pets, no landscapes. It has to be your face and maybe neck and shoulders, but no more. You're...

I want to bump this thread up due to a recent development. The main platform I work on just sent me a message. They said they've hidden my account until I upload a picture of myself. Not just any picture, but a portrait that shows no more of my body than my neck and shoulders (no long shots)...

A few things occur to me while reading this post. First: Does this mean you were grasping at the idea of being "over it" to the point you were neglecting basic self care and management that could have prevented this relapse? Had you stopped doing the things you did before to stay grounded and...

Interesting. Well, my experience has been that allowing me to retell the trauma is the only really helpful thing I've gotten from therapy. It doesn't seem to become more ingrained for me. It feels like an expulsion and a cleansing. I've never had a therapy session where I was allowed to retell...

Of course this would be ideal for me as well. It's just incredibly hard to find someone that competent even when you do have wide open options. When you're under-insured? It's a pipe dream. The thing is I've found that the best therapist I've had was the most like a friend who simply listened...

So what do you do when you have a flashback that shuts down your whole body/brain except for a voice in your head screaming, "I need to talk about this! I need to talk about this! I need to talk about this!?" What can you do about that except...talk about it? I could see myself being this choosy...

I'm told that I won't get to choose my therapist, so I'll have to stress what my needs are at the intake appointment.

No. I think it might be not okay to cross pollinate between anonymous and regular forums without OP's permission, FYI. Just saying.

It seems to me that many therapists wind up building a wall around themselves to block out the emotional impact of the things people tell them. Sometimes I wonder if some of them have actually mastered a method of appearing to listen whilst actually not hearing what you say. Perhaps it's not...

Can you articulate what it was that differentiated them and made them your best and worst respectively?

Classic cop-out from therapists who don't want to hear the hard stuff. You've really got to watch for this one.

How different my experience has been. I've found that they're pretty much all "in the pit," because they just don't have the skills/experience to charge more. Hmm.

I strongly agree with this. Beware the therapist who is all too happy to tell you session after useless session that you need to stabilize before you can process. Some of them are just dragging their feet because they'd rather not hear about the hard stuff, or they wouldn't know what to do with...

So I made an intake appointment at a center for under-insured psych patients. I've been on the circuit long enough to know that the therapist they stick me with will, in all likelihood, suck. I'm now suffering from another form of PTSD -- post therapist stress disorder. So this post is about...

Yes, all of the above.

It's funny how this thread is just now getting replies. After I posted this, I really didn't bother to stick to a regimen, and so it didn't really "stick" for me either -- though, I didn't really try. I'm glad to see that some people are finding the idea useful, and I say if it makes them feel...

Ha ha ha ha! :D

I think forgiveness, if anything, is a result rather than a choice or action. You heal, the pain goes away (I'm speaking hypothetically here -- not there yet personally) and the clean emotional slate is the closest thing to forgiveness that exists in the real world. I don't know how you can...

Wow, I can't believe the responses here. I read Peter Levine's Waking the Tiger, and had a pretty visceral reaction to it, but nothing like crying, getting triggered, or having to put it away. Has anyone else read Levine's book? How would you compare it to Van Der Kolk? Is it worth my while to...

Actually it's not. People--soldiers and civilians --have been dying over politics for thousands of years. It may just be "politics" to you, but to someone somewhere it could mean the difference between life and death. Suppose people were suffering or dying in front of you because some pig...

This just shows you're taking the main stream media's story at face value. You need to do look into alternative news sources rather than just swallow what the controlled media throws at you. An influx of rape? Is rape some mysterious airborne element like ether that wafts invisibly around the...

That seems to me a valid point he made. First of all, the journey is expensive -- where are they getting the money? Secondly, they are mostly able bodied young men -- where are the women and children? They left them there to deal with whatever this supposed crisis is? All the furor about...