Tag: emotions
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Strange dream and a couple therapy
It’s 9.50am and I’m wide awake. I had a very strange dream last night: at first I was told there is a married man interested in dating me and I was supposed to guess who it was from hints displayed on a large screen and a number of volunteers were meant to gather from my […]
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How dramatic it can actually get? Trigger warning
You know how I feel sometimes? And particularly now. I feel like whatever I want to do things always go bad, bad, bad. They never improve, not only for me, but also for others. If I had money I’d build my own care home, that would be similar to Fessey House, and I’d only admit […]
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What it is that I actually want?
Is it possible to know? And can I stop being unhappy somehow? I didn’t manage to fill in the online study withdrawal form because there’s an error on submitting. If I still wanted to study and all of this was just a little bit bigger meltdown I’d probably decide that’s a notification for me to […]
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Gratitude practice doesn’t work
Some people swear by it. And possibly it works for them, I don’t know. There were even some research stating that it actually does work. I don’t know how psychological research of this kind can be done without taking into consideration people values, beliefs, life circumstances and life experience. I did try and at first […]
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Dementia treatment dream
Yesterday evening I decided that I shouldn’t be sleeping on the sofa too often and went to the spare bedroom. I only slept around 9h and woke up with a headache, one that I usually get when I’m about to have a cold. I got a bit annoyed, after all this time I was off […]
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Empathetic listening (is communication taboo?)
Yesterday I was meant to have my first phone session with a bereavement volunteer from Cruse but I somehow forgot about it and didn’t answer the call. She emailed me later so I apologised but straight away thought, wait a minute, do I want a stranger to demonstrate empathetic listening to me over the phone […]
Autistic and me 