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There's some kind of stomach bug going around his preschool and he's been complaining that his tummy hurts all day. I'm not going to let the wife know as her mom recently passed away and I'm hopeful that a weekend with her girlfriends will be good for her. I'll have to fake my attendance at a friend's kid's birthday party tomorrow so the wife doesn't catch on. Hopefully little man starts feeling better soon. Wish me luck.

Apologies in advance for the rant. My mother-in-law seems to be rapidly moving towards end of life care. She's been hospitalized almost the entire 4 years of my son's life battling cancer. The past week or so, things seem to be progressing quickly and her death seems inevitable.

My wife and her mother have a somewhat complicated relationship. My wife started seeing a therapist last week.

I have no idea how to talk to my little guy about this. He's hardly gotten to know his grandmother as she's been pretty sick his entire life and basically been in some level of quarantine due to a weakened immune system.

My own parents are extremely emotionally immature. I lost my first grandparent

Basically the title. There may have been a garden with some kind of portal and a ladder. The MC (or one of the main characters) makes stock picks based off the bible and makes tons of money. There's also some kind of ladder, maybe in a garden that has a portal to another dimension or it may allow time travel. This might be two separate books.

Hello! I'm in the middle of a career change to teaching (from finance) and I'm currently substituting across all grade levels for one school district.

I'm wondering what teachers' expectations for substitutes are, specifically regarding feedback. I typically leave a brief note about the day, any work that wasn't completed or any challenges.

Today, I had the loudest, most unfocused group of kids I've ever had. This was a fourth grade classroom. Not sure if it was feigned helplessness caused by the first day back after the holiday break or what. Despite the clear plans, and having all the materials neatly organized- I struggled to get through most of the lesson plans. When I introduced th

I just ended a therapy session that went very well. We made some progress in detangling some really toxic shame I carry around about sex and relationships. I say it went well, because I feel like I was really getting somewhere but I felt bad because it seemed like my therapist- who I refer to as 'Yoda of therapy' was hoping for a bit more resolution. At the end, she said- 'I don't want to leave you in pain for the week' and my heart broke a bit. She's been the best form of pain relief in my life outside of my wife and son.

But, I think I might've been withholding- and am continuing to withhold a potential sexual abuse/molestation from a babysitter when I was really young. I would have be

I grew up with an undiagnosed bipolar father and an undiagnosed npd/bpd mom. Dad was a violent, angry drunk and mom was too self involved to care. My wife and I started dating in high school. We're in our mid 30s now with 1 child < 3 years old. I thought my wife's family was the portrait of a normal family for the first several years. In our 20s, my wife's parents got divorced and the ensuing years became a slow motion trainwreck as the tenuous bonds of an emotionally unavailable mother and an emotionally incompetent father were tested. Her father would show up at our apartment every morning while we were getting ready for work and stand in our tiny apartment crying about how his world

I just wrapped up my first session but second conversation with a new therapist today. I want to point out something that seems so simple now in hindsight: I'm so accustomed to this existential pain that I am slow to recognize real feelings of relief. Cannabis relieves some symptoms, Adderall others, but the relief I just felt from that single session was kind of.... Orgasmic. Look, if you're in therapy constantly wondering about the efficacy- if one of your goals is to smoke less pot, or feel more (whatever it is you want to feel) and you just aren't feeling like you're getting closer to those goals it might be time to leave. And you may be so accustomed to existential dread that you can't

36 year old dad of a 2.5 year old boy here. I always kind of knew my parents weren't great, but I never knew the extent of it until I had my own son.

3 months ago, I started back in therapy after realizing I was slipping into a pretty deep depression. I've experienced bouts of pretty severe depression and am diagnosed with depression and ADD/ADHD. I know lots of great stuff to get myself out of a depressive funk that I learned in therapy about 5 years ago but none of them were working. Actually 5 years ago I exited therapy because I felt as though we were dwelling on my childhood and I didn't want to whine about it. The message I got back then was basically, 'yeah you had a rough childh

I run away because I fear intimacy or closeness with people. I'm in a friend's wedding today with my wife and we had the rehearsal yesterday and the whole rehearsal was one long emotional flashback that spurs this burning drive to just walk away and keep walking.

I've done this for years but in the past I didn't know where my 'wanderlust' and desire to withdraw comes from. I just knew that depending on the relationship and mood of my company I would just take off without explanation.

I feel that I completely understand it now from reading books (still reading CPTSD From Surviving to Thriving and I'm struggling because it fits so damn well it's exhausting). I'm an adult male in his mid-

36 years old, male. Been seeing a therapist since mid-May now, maybe since early June. I've been before but this is the first time I've accepted the trauma. ACE score is a 6, maybe a 7. I've been reading the books, doing the homework outside of therapy- and it's exhausting. How did I ever have the energy to run through this minefield of triggers before? Does the constant stream of epiphanies ever stop?

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