Oh, I’m not saying take them to group therapy. It’s just that it happens a lot in that setting.

Two words: Group. Therapy.

I’m immensely grateful for the help and support it’s provided but holy hell this happens a dozen times a session.

I was on my lunch break, just sitting in my car. The spider and I had similar food options: little to none 😅

I’m in the USA, on the NE coast.

Yeah, I’m east coast US. I am by no means an expert lol. My photo app suggested the match, and I cross checked it with Wikipedia. If it’s not right, it’s close at least.

I’m a firm believer in sending all bigots “back where they came from.”

“We have investigated ourselves and found no wrongdoing”

adds another to the “what’s this gif?” pile

I’m just glad I don’t drink milk. Because if I leaned nothing else from Tiny Toons, it’s that it would still be shooting out of my nose even though I laughed two minutes ago.

There’s no reason to try and appear strong and “well functioning” towards your doctor like you are probably used to doing for everyone else.

Just wanted to add onto this something I only recently found out about myself, and I can’t imagine I’m alone in this. There really isn’t a “mask off” version of “me,” because I started so early and it’s been so long (I’m in my 40s). I basically grew around the mask. When the mask is gone, it’s shattered. What’s left of “me” at that point is just a quivering pile of trauma, repression, guilt/shame, and maladaptive coping skills. There’s no in-between, just high- and non-functioning.

Yes, I am in therapy working on it. Double yes, it makes it difficult for anyone to believe that there’s anything amiss until I break. Tis no fun.

I was thinking “carbonite” myself.

Mildly spicy paste?

Which is why you’ve chosen to be a kbinite.

I’m not falling for that one again, Mr. Disney Documentarian.

That’s being generous. It’s mildly spicy paste. There’s probably more meat in a single small breakfast link than in an entire brick of scrapple.

Lord Vetinari, from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld

it would be amazing if the god of that religion would occasionally pop onto the planet and remind everybody that they exist, maybe give us the bread and circuses show to catch us back up, maybe throw out a couple of worldwide hey I forgive everybody’s and then pop back off just to remind us.

A thousand years without a reappearance of the God of all gods is a long time to keep the torch burning.

https://slrpnk.net/comment/9243887

A dramatization, if you will.