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elameadows

3y

Peace – content warning

Throat closing
Blood pouring
Mind emptying
This is ...

Peace – content warning Throat closing Blood pouring Mind emptying This is ...

... peace #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #depression #suicide #survivor #photography #mushrooms #anxiety #ptsd #cptsd

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elameadows

3y

Please don’t erase me
If I die before my time

Don’t make up fake ...

Please don’t erase me If I die before my time Don’t make up fake ...

... sentiments Platitudes to replace what was real #poem #poetry #poemoftheday #transrightsarehumanrights #survivor #suicide #suicideprevention #photography #ptsd #cptsd #grief #griefpoetry #mentalhealth

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elameadows

3y

The entire world is|
Leached of colour
Till it’s all just black and grey

#poetry ...

The entire world is| Leached of colour Till it’s all just black and grey #poetry ...

... #poem #poemoftheday #mentalhealth #photography #dissociation #ptsd #cptsd

elameadows

3y

Leached

The entire world is Leached of colour Till it’s all just black and grey

elameadows

3y

Dispersion

One person In the great big world One dispersion I gag and hurl My pieces Scattered so far No one Will find where they are Reality is It doesn’t even matter Everything I was Is completely shattered Come

elameadows

3y

I don’t want to be mature
I want to scream my shambled feelings
Loud across the ...

I don’t want to be mature I want to scream my shambled feelings Loud across the ...

... city Belting out my pain and frustration At never being enough 1/2 #poetry #poem #DavaoCity #mentalhealth #grief #loss #transrights #transrightsarehumanrights #ptsd #cptsd #mentalhealthawareness

elameadows

3y

Shambled

I don’t want to be mature I want to scream my shambled feelings Loud across the city Belting out my pain and frustration At never being enough I will never fit into a specific box Yet you can’t love me

wiser

4y

Known

I’ve been on Quora a lot lately, part of me says way too much. Perhaps I’m already addicted? (Cue critical inner voices talking trash…) I think the tree to be barking up, though, is to get curious about

wiser

4y

Sadness, who are you?

Sadness, who are you?

“How old is the sadness?” my therapist asked me. “Young, very young,” I replied. “About three, I think.” “That makes sense,” my therapist affirmed. Since that session I’ve had these glimpses of a very

wiser

4y

A dramatic tale about email

A dramatic tale about email

Since coming to Quora I’ve learned that there are a number of things related to the therapeutic frame that spark controversy, as in therapists and clients hold some very strong views on these things. One

wiser

4y

Outpouring

Something happend to me this past Tuesday and in the days since that I’m not sure I’d truly ever experienced before. I’d been musing about the way my brain has processed certain kinds of information for

wiser

4y

Adventure

In the spirit of keeping things a bit more light for another day before getting all intense again, today I’m sharing a few songs that speak to me about the adventure that my life is. I’ve found that viewing

wiser

4y

How do therapists keep themselves from getting attached to their patients?

How do therapists keep themselves from getting attached to their patients?

The truly good therapists don’t, nor do they deny their attachment exists. Yes, therapists regulate their emotions and don’t act on most of them with their clients. Yes, they have boundaries, and no, they

wiser

4y

To clients of therapy who experienced extreme attachment or what felt like Love towards the therapist: Did you get over it and did the therapist successfully help you or do you feel you were hoodwinked by this 'phenomenon'?

To clients of therapy who experienced extreme attachment or what felt like Love towards the therapist: Did you get over it and did the therapist successfully help you or do you feel you were hoodwinked by this 'phenomenon'?

I can’t say I’m over it yet because my feelings fluctuate a lot still. The thing that has helped me the most has been my therapist and I talking openly about the fact that I’m attached to him and to some

wiser

4y

Me being in love

Me being in love

I feel like I need to lighten things up a bit on this space, as this past week has been intense. Thanks to all who have expressed support and encouragement! The most important relationship in my life is

wiser

4y

It goes back to…

It goes back to…

I saw this answer not too long after I’d penned yesterday’s post. It gives a very plausible reason for why I feel the way I do about my therapeutic relationship—this sense that it’s beyond repair even

wiser

4y

Sad

So I mentioned before that there’s this box in my brain that has a default setting of “I’m something the cat dragged in,” and will skew all the regard data I get from people to basically say that. I have

wiser

4y

What if the box is a part?

What if the box is a part?

After waxing eloquent about how there’s this faulty box in my brain that analyzes regard data in a very skewed way, and talking all about how I need either a new box or an upgrade, it dawned on me, what

wiser

4y

I want a box upgrage (Part 2)

I want a box upgrage (Part 2)

There is another way to look at the issue I have with not having the right box in my brain when it comes to quality of regard from other people. I got my master’s in science and that involved working with