07/28/2017 in Mental Health, 2017

I’m “working from home” today. We’re in the middle of moving offices and today is the last day of the move because all of our stuff has to be out of our old office before Monday. The dudes in the office have their plan of attack for today, which doesn’t involve me and one of my other coworkers, so we’re holding down the fort from our couches. The best way we can help is to just stay out of the way. I’m okay with that. Basically our only jobs today are to make sure the mainline gets answered if someone calls.

I had my therapy appt last friday. It went pretty good. I’m still not totally 100% sure what I think of all of it. I do think Friday is a good day for me to go in because after every appointment I legit want to cancel my next appointment, but I force myself to wait 24 hrs before making any impulsive decisions. That gets me to Saturday, and they’re not open on weekends so really, it gets me to Monday. And by then, I’m a lot for calmer and confident about the process.

Not sure if she forgot to look or if she just couldn’t find any local DBT groups for me (she didn’t say one way or the other) but right now her plan of attack is to have me self-teach it to myself from a website and then practice what I learn in between sessions. I have learned a lot from the website and am trying to practice it by myself, but it is really, really hard without like any support. I did look for DBT groups on my own and didn’t find any locally.

My next appointment is next Friday. We’re doing my sessions on a biweekly basis so that it’s not too much for me. I did have a rough night last night, but I think I was just maxed out on all of my energy levels.

I won’t be productive work-wise at all today, but if my only jobs are to answer the phone and stay out of the way of the moving folks, I just might be successful.