I have the headache from hell today :(

[fahye]

Having revised the canon and stalked my recipient's LJ for a while, I am STILL WILDLY EXCITED about Yuletide; I think I will be able to produce something that they'll enjoy, and that I'll enjoy writing, and maybe it will even be less than glaringly obvious that This Is A Story By Fahye. Maybe. I want to be gleefully vocal about it but so far I have managed to restrain myself to spending large amounts of time exchanging capslock with schiarire.

Inconveniently, I am still haunted by the bunnies that I'd vaguely constructed for the other fandoms I offered. Perhaps I will write them in drabble form and run around trying to find someone for whom I can upload them during Madness :D

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What else. My psych block is almost over -- just the final written exam to go -- which is a relief mostly because it has been stressfully unstructured; while I don't MIND a certain amount of independence, it also pisses me off when one has to beg and stalk and plead and demand in order to be given any supervision.

However! I still like psych a whole lot, and it's probably at the top of my list when it comes to specialties. I now know staggering amounts of things about most mental illnesses and psychotropic medications (ughhh, drugs, why must you be so complicated?). And my CBT tutor got me all excited about mindfulness therapy and gave me a CD and some articles to read. And I get to do another month of psych in London, with less pressure (no bloody forms or exams) and more child & adolescent stuff, which I found surprisingly fascinating, if depressing.

You all have to promise not to run screaming when I become a shrink, okay? Okay.

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This song has been on repeat for days. THANKS A LOT electrumqueen.

Comments

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

mindfulness therapy

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[fahye.livejournal.com]

I'm taking that to be disapproval? From what I've read (limited) and from what the psychologist said, I can see how it could be very useful for some problems/some kinds of people, and not useful at all for others.

[ashen_key]

(ughhh, drugs, why must you be so complicated?)

GOOD QUESTION!

*will, one day, find some ADD medication that works without either a) giving me anxiety attacks or b) makes me throw up. ONE DAY*

[ryokophoenix.livejournal.com]

Well, you've pretty much nailed my irrational hatred - useful for some, not for others, particularly stupid when your supervisor applies it to everyone regardless and teaches you little else but.

It's better if you give it context, like ACT or DBT.

(internet at home has been delayed even further - looks like next Thursday at this rate ARGH ARGH ARGH)

[fahye.livejournal.com]

Oh, ACT was what she was teaching us about, I was just particularly interested by the mindfulness concepts that were included in the broader frame of the therapy.

I can see how applying it to EVERYONE would be a ridiculous idea, yes. Is this the supervisor of the annoyingly specific questions?

[electrumqueen.livejournal.com]

boo, headache! D: D: D:

but: fuck yeah, yuletide! and i swear to god, stuttering is like a disease or something. i will never stop listening to it! until i die!