Posted by fallsfall on February 20, 2005, at 9:11:29
In reply to Re: I see therapist Monday morning 8 am, posted by Dinah on February 20, 2005, at 5:07:27
Please get a new monitor. You need to know accurately what your blood sugar is.
One thing that sometimes works for me is to let myself *need* him, while not allowing myself to *call* him. Telling myself that I can't need him makes me need him more. This would be when I would take out his picture and stick it in my pocket so I could carry it with my rabbit's foot. The other day I pasted the copy of his picture into a Word document 16 times and printed it out (now I have a whole page of him!). If you don't have a digital picture, can you scan the picture you have? Or make a picture frame for the picture you have. Or scan in his picture, blow it up, print it out, paste it on cardboard, and cut it up into a jigsaw puzzle. Then you can put it together, and - voila - there is your therapist! Or my old favorite of getting his picture printed on a big comfy T shirt and wearing it for PJs (but that could freak out the hubby...). What is a book that he likes a lot (or even that you have just seen in his office?) - find a copy and read it. Make a list of the special things he has done or said (go through the archives of Babble for examples). Figure out how many hours and minutes 'till you see him, and then in a little while figure it out again (but don't just subtract from the number you got before, do the whole complicated process - it takes more time to do). Say his name over and over in your mind. Put his name in a song and sing it (My favorite is "Julie, Julie, Julie do you love me? Julie, Julie, Julie do you care? Julie, Julie are you thinking of me? Julie, Julie will you still be there?" But, I used to put my first therapist's name in (current therapist has either a 1 or 3 syllable name, it doesn't fit as well, though in a pinch I have *made* it fit the song). Go online to make sure that you have the lyrics of the song right (is it Julie or Judy?). Paste the entire lyrics into a post on Babble:
"Julie, Do Ya Love Me"
(As recorded by Bobby Sherman)
TOM BAHLERBeing alone at night makes me sad girl
Yeah it brings me down all right
Tossin' and turnin', and freezin' and burnin'
And cryin' all through the night, yeah yeahJulie, Julie, Julie do ya love me?
Julie, Julie, Julie do ya care?
Julie, Julie are you thinking of me?
Julie, Julie will you will you still be there?We had so much fun together
And I was sure that you were mine
But leaving you baby is drivin' me crazy
It's got me wondering all the time, yeah yeahJulie, Julie, Julie do ya love me?
Julie, Julie, Julie do ya care?
Julie, Julie are you thinking of me?
Julie, Julie will you will you still be there?Honey you cried the day I left you
Even thouh we both knew I couldn't stay
But baby remember I'll be back September
But til then I'll write you every day, yeah yeahJulie, Julie, Julie do ya love me?
Julie, Julie, Julie do ya care?
Julie, Julie are you thinking of me?
Julie, Julie will you will you still be there?(c) Copyright 1970 by Lucon Music Publishing Co.
and Sequel Music Co.- SONG HITS, Summer 1974.
Bobby Sherman! Oh, my! Haven't thought about him in a long, long time. Make a drawing taking the letters in his name, putting them on at random, overlapping etc. Use stencil-like versions of the letters so you can color them in with crayons. Write a post about all the different ways you can "think" about your therapist. Know that you aren't alone.
P.S. I would love to hear your ideas...
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