We have any number of threads discussing Trump. Maybe we could use this one for talking about posters, and not another analyzing Trump voters, the election, its impact, etc.?
This is exactly why I’m not going to complain about doom posting. (As long as they’re keeping it in appropriate threads.) Let posters rant for the sake of their mental health.
Understood. I mostly mentioned you here because of just how much you were posting, and how dire your posts were.
Sure, but I sometimes see it as an attempt to limit or shut down discussion by the “other side,” in which case it might merit mentioning here.
(I realize that not everyone agrees with my point of view on the implications I see, though.)
I surely don’t have to tell you, you’ll know it, but this is dangerous behavior, it’s a risk for your health. Please take care of yourself and try to get some sleep.
If you gotta let it out. Vent.
And vent some more.
Just know,
It’s not gonna change one Republican mind.
It will only serve to distress you.
I think turning off the news.
Quit reading websites that piss you off. And find an outlet to work to help someone less privileged than you are. Go work at a animal shelter. Volunteer to read to those who can’t.
Donate stuff to Goodwill.
Anything.
This is not all Pollyanna talking, it’s common knowledge. You’ll appreciate what you have, more when you see real suffering.
Yeah, a lot of people are going through grief right now. They are grieving for the loss of their hopes. That sounds dramatic but it’s not, it’s natural. When you lose anything there is a natural process of dealing with that. Being sad or angry is part of that process and can be healthy.
But keeping yourself awake for more than 24 hours over worry and becoming hyperbolic about it, that’s not dealing with grief. That’s self-destruction.
Yeah, I know it from own experience.
Mike Godwin himself agrees with you.
So it’s fine.
Thank you! I will share that link around the web as soon as I can take the time to read it. I have to call my insurance company now and get a new therapist. Regardless of our differences, I think we all can agree that I really need a therapist.
In Unrelated News- Both the member service number and the mental health nunber on the back of my card get me an automated message that they are closed for the weekend and to call back during normal business hours.
I work 8:30 to 5. I get two 15 minute breaks and 30 minutes for lunch. This means I will need to take several hours off to get this done. This time in which I am absent from work will get me half a point. If you reach ten points you are automatically fired. I don’t know how many points I currently have. Good times.
I don’t think it will take several hours to call them. They’re gonna ask you a couple of questions to determine if you’re who you say you are and say they’ll email you a list of therapists near you.
You call the therapist office. Ask if they are taking patients. That might be tricky to find.
Ask if they take insurance. Another hoop.
Make an appointment that will be in about a month. If you say anything about being suicidal they’ll direct you to call 911 immediately.
Then you get put in the psyche ward. Possibly mandatory 48hrs. hold.
You’ll have a therapist then.
There are often county mental health clinics that are a bit easier to get into at low or no cost. But they are waaaayyy overworked and appointments will be spaced out further.
If I were you I’d explore online therapy. I hear good things about it.
Just Google it. And check it out. It’s not free. But you can do it at your best time.
Thanks. but it will indeed take at least an hour.
Actually calling the number will take no time at all.
Navigating the automated menu usually takes a few minutes.
When I am finally connected to a human, I will have to confirm my identity and get them to understand why I am calling, They may need to connect me to somebody else.
When I am connected to the right human, they will give me a list of in network therapists. This is tha part that takes a lot of time. My old insurance company could just send me the list in an e-mail. I get insurance through my employer. They changed providers this year. The current insurance company does not have the ability to send me the list in an e-mail. The agent will have to read the entire iist slowly as I type it into a word document. I will need to confirm all spellings are correct and that all phone numbers are correct. At best, I type around 40 words a minute. Lately, my laptop has been having problems, While I am typing, the cursor will suddenly jump to somewhere else on the screen. Unless I notice immediately, this resuts in things like- typing a bunch of words that do not get entered into the document, typing a bunch of words literally in the middle of a word earlier in the document, and worst the highlighting of large blocks of text that are deleted if I type another character or hit the space bar before I notice. If I accidentally delete text and then type another character, I cannot use Undo to restore the text. So my already slower than average typing speed gets slowed down further to prevent any of that from happening.
After I get the list and after I get off work, I will call all the therapists on it. I require a reasonable co pay and a therapist who does tele health. I also require an appointment that is not during my work hours.
Then, I sit back and wait for them to return my calls.
If the therapist who calls fits those qualifications, I will make an initial appointment.
If that appointment goes well, all is well.
If it does not go well, I get to call all the other therapists on the list.
I believe I covered this in the Mini Rants thread- My last therapist was fine. But with a great deal of bad things going on in my life at the time, I missed a few appointments. Other tele health therapists would call when that happened, to see if I remembered tha appointment and to ask if everything was okay. Neither she nor her staff did that. They just billed me the co pay plus a fifty dollar missed appointment fee the next day, I got sick of that and just did not make any more appointments. Neither she nor her office called to ask why I had not made a new appointment or to check if I was okay. This proved I made the right choice.
Pencil, piece of paper. Perhaps?
Typing is not necessary. Do it during lunch. Tell the person give you 3 names. You can look their numbers up later.
Or better yet. Call a mental health clinic. (Type mental health clinic in my area, you’ll get the rundown) It will take them a 2 seconds to tell you if your insurance is accepted.
Start at the beginning. Don’t wade too far into the weeds.
One step at a time.
Pencil and paper will take even longer. I have terrible handwriting under the best circumstances. If I rush, even I won’t be able to read it. I used to think it was just due to my poor manual dexterity, I found out while researching something else that I likely have disgraphia.
I cannot just take 3 names. My Google fu is weak. Unless they have truly unique names, sifting through the search results will take significantly longer than just getting their numbers.
If I only get 3 numbers, I will eventually have to type them in to a word document anyway. Otherwise, I will lose the paper with the names and numbers and not know if the names and numbers the agent gives me are ones I have already called and rejected.
Additionally, I expect the process to take at leat an hour because it took at least that long the last two times I had to do this.
Thanks though
Ok. Just trying to help you.
I’m in the camp that thinks you’re too sanguine about the strength of institutions that should constrain him, but I agree that he won’t be as horrifically bad as he wants to be, if only because everything he touches turns to shit, e.g., Trump steaks, Trump casinos, and I would be surprised if he lives more than a year or two in office.
Oh ouch.
Best wishes finding a better therapist.
I’m not sure to what extent this will be true (the folks around him seem to now know how to stroke his ego while they do stuff around him) but I do agree this is the best of the realistic possibilities given the present circumstances.
And it is truly depressing that our best option is to rely on his utter incompetence, inherent laziness, and crepulence to avoid the worst possible outcome in favor of a merely horrendous one.
Sadly, I think I’m more worried if Trump does die. I’m not at all comforted by Vance, Musk, and the “sane” Republicans.