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TheNewMe2.0
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@ceponatia I appreciate the suggestion. But no, that hasn't worked for me though I've tried it. The song would just get stuck deeper. Positive: I bought sparkling water Yes orange flavored sparkling water no less. I bought it with my client on our last session together. Driving to his house was proving too much wear and tear on me so I stopped going to sessions with him. It was just too inconvenient. That's cool. My supervisor who I actually liked just put in her two weeks notice. So I'm probably going to get stuck with a mean grumpy supervisor in two weeks to replace her. That sucks big wind. So I'm going to try to put in my two weeks ASAP. I'll get my psych today profile public today. Hopefully we get a good picture of me to put on there. I think I've got to put up a 15 second video of me too. So we'll see how that goes. I've just got to get the ball rolling with this new job asap and start making my transition out of my old job. I don't want to stick around long enough to get a new supervisor and get treated badly like I was before my nice supervisor took over. I smiled at the possibilities I accomplished working on my profiles I am grateful for possibilities, profiles, open path, psych today, conveniences, short drives, work hours, 15, second, video. God bless
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Well I'm glad you know people care about you. Be gentle with yourself. You're doing the best you can. @DaBest That's an inspiring viewpoint and story. Good to know you've made strides over the years.
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Positive: I do love my tv I've been looking to upgrade from a 40" to a 65". But my mom is totally against the idea. She wants me out of the living room not increasing my presence here. So I think it's probably for the best that I keep it at 40". My problem is that my neck hurts when I try to share the screen with someone. So I thought maybe I could share using a bigger tv and not get neck pain. I guess I'll just have to watch at my friends houses on their tv's instead of trying for my own setup here. That's okay I suppose. I would have liked to try out at 65" and see if I could share it without neck pain though. Then I'd have a setup that could accommodate one or two more friends with me. Alas it is perhaps not in the cards. But I do love the tv I have. It's gotten me through so many shows and continues to do so. A small hiccup in the programming happened yesterday. There was a musical episode on the The Flash. I have since gotten very uncomfortable with music. So hearing songs gets them uncomfortably stuck in my head. Which is happening now that I watched the musical yesterday. So I guess when I rewatch my shows I'm going to have to skip the musical episodes. This is very sad for me because I want to say that I completed the entire series 50 times or whatever. Not I completed it 50 times minus the musical episodes. But oh well, I've got to work with my disorder. If I keep pushing myself to listen to music I'll probably go nuts. So I've got to do without the musical episodes. I smiled at my power strip I accomplished chewing gum? I am grateful for power, strip, gum, tv, bigger tv, mom, living room, nuts, complete a show 50x, no neck pain. God bless
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@chiliflavor Hey good to see you posting. I hope all is well with you and that you keep posting. Find some way to quit. Max. I like reading your posts sometimes. I hope you're able to find a way to quit.
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Positive: I get the day off thank God. I managed to take the day off because I've been feeling really stressed lately. Seems it came just in time as I'm feeling a bit under the weather. I get stressed and feel worn out sometimes. It's kind of regular unfortunately. I usually come out the other side okay though and am able to keep working through it. So that much is good. I'm really trying to chill all day today and take it as easy as possible. I have some stuff to do for work though. I've got to make my profile for advertising my services. My tv got moved around today as my mom's trying to sell the rug underneath it. I like this rug though. It helps keep my feet warm while I'm watching tv. So I'd rather her not sell it. Hopefully no one tries to buy it for a reasonable price and I get to keep it. Readjusting my tv is a bit of a process as I've got some mild OCD with it. I need it to be just right in the center perfectly as much as possible for me to be happy with it. It's gotten better recently, but I still want the tv dead center as best it can be. Thanks everyone for being here and reading my posts. Hope you have a great day. I smiled at the flash I accomplished eating moms waffle I am grateful for flash, waffle, mom, relationships, price, rug, day off, centered tv, tv, ocd improving, God bless
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It's cool to see you doing Cam's 30 day challenge thing. Keep fixing that hull.
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I can agree with this sentiment. Quitting games has given me much more free time. Especially things like exercise, food and hobbies have all become much more filled out since I quit games as well. Good to see you're progressing too.
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Thanks Laurie. It's good to be remembered. I'm glad you're back. I wish you all the best too. Good job drawing things. Seems like it's a good hobby for you.
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Positive: even if the new job takes a while I still have my hours from my current job and they're counting towards licensure finally. So yeah. My hours are counting towards licensure finally after 1.5 years of working without knowing how to get supervision. So that's good. It took forever, but it's finally happening. I'm chewing sugar free gum and suspect it might be bad for my stomach. They said it can cause stomach upset sometimes. The low sugar ice cream seems to be okay though. I've switched to allowing one sugary thing MWF and the other days I eat low sugar ice cream to cope. Man this week has been really tough. I've gotten angry and upset with my clients starting on Monday. So everyday has been a struggle. I really hope today is chill for once. I'm probably going to try to get a haircut because I need to post a profile on psychologytoday to try to drum up clients for my new job. My new supervisor is not responding to my emails which is not good. She's kind of very low interaction level. But she's very lax about my work which is good. I don't have anyone breathing down my neck over every little detail of the job. We'll get it together. I just hope it happens sooner rather than later. I need her to send me my office number and setup my email account to put on my profile. Also I need her license number and exp date to set up an open path profile. I hope this works. I could use the new job. It pays a lot more btw. Like a 45% pay increase. But therapists only work 25 hours a week to prevent burnout so I won't be making all that much even with a higher hourly salary. I smiled at my mom I accomplished keeping warm (it's a task) I am grateful for mom, warmth, blanket, giant jacket, low sugar ice cream, regular ice cream, supervised hours, chill days, god, and the holy spirit. God bless
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Good job staying off the bad things. Keep it up.
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Hey I remember you. You wanted to draw manga as a serious hobby and were working in the military I think. Your drawing of Deku was good. I changed my name I used to be Erik2.0, I don't know if you'd remember me, but yeah I'm still here. Quitting games. Hope your goals and everything go well. Looks like you're making good progress.
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Positive: The new job has started. I'm kind of wondering if the new job will like. When will they give me hours and train me on how to do my treatment plans/progress notes. The whole process has been kind of laggy so I'm really hoping they get it together and get me fully onboarded already. On the upside though I'm now earning hours towards licensure and I get 4 hours a week of supervision. So I'll probably be done and licensed in about two years or maybe even less if I manage to count a lot of hours doing assessments and intakes. So things are looking up at work. Even if this is an awkward transitionary period in time right now. My Saturdays have opened up a bit. Now I work 11-2 on Saturday and that's it. No extra hour with a client like I have been doing. It'll be nice to get off at two and have the rest of the day to rest. I really need my down time at this job. My supervisor said 25 hours is about all you want to be doing as a therapist otherwise you're burning yourself out. I smiled at the clouds I accomplished putting on extra layers I am grateful for jacket, sweater, clouds, layers, new job, supervisor, licensure, transition, old job, hours, God bless
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Positive: we're showing the house So unfortunately we're showing the house (I'd rather no one live with us but whatever). We're trying to get people to allow me to come into their space and lift weights. Which is kind of ridiculous, but my mom seems to think it's fine and someone will want to rent the space and let me come in there and workout while they're in there. It's not complete privacy. I might have to go to a gym and not workout down there unfortunately. We'll see what happens. Hm. I smiled at the clouds I accomplished sleeping with my new space heater I am grateful for my mom who is trying to keep my home gym alive, clouds, new space heater, new tenant?, privacy, backpack, laptop, accordian folder, tv stand, and money. God bless
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Congrats on opening up a new day for therapy. That marks some progress being made there. I hope your relationship goes well. I'm starting a new job today doing outpatient therapy. Hopefully it goes well.
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Congratulations on your new job. It's good to see you so happy about the change. I hope it goes well for you and your boss is more rational. Good to hear golf is going well too. It's nice to have a hobby to pass the time in an enjoyable fashion. I'm starting my new job today. It'll still be at least a month before I'm putting in my two weeks notice but hopefully the new job hours start to pile up and I can start quitting more and more hours at the old job soon. I just hope training goes smoothly for the both of us.
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Positive: The house didn't burn down. My mom has left things on the stove twice now and forgotten about them. Today it burned up really bad and set off the smoke alarm. I'm grateful the house didn't burn down. It smells funny now. I've been humping my mattress. So maybe it's time to reset the masturbation counter. I can't seem to stop masturbating via humping my mattress. Hm. Yep I think I'm gonna reset it. Maybe the accountability will help me stop humping. Who knew masturbation was so difficult to quit? Today's my day off and also my first day of onboarding at the new job. I hope all goes well and I'm working new job hours in no time. Yep. I smiled at GQ post I accomplished preventing house burning I am grateful for pot, stove, warmth, quiet space heater, mom, accountability, abstinence, onboarding, bed and new job. God bless
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Glad you had a good night. Keep it up.
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Good job resetting and getting back to game quitting. I strongly support you being gentle with yourself. Staying away from checking what's up with different games is a good idea. I feel like it's easy to get sucked in and difficult to stay away so we have to keep vigilant and not do anything related to gaming. Good job coming back and making it 7 months that's a while.
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@BooksandTrees Yeah I think there might be some insecurity about his place in life. So it makes him feel good to look down on others. Which isn't chill. I dunno I probably won't have to work with him much longer. I keep thinking he's not that bad, and sometimes he'll go a while without being a douche and then he does it and I'm like, ugh. Maybe I could talk with him Idk if it's worth it. Positive: I'm chewing gum It's supposedly good for your teeth and brain to chew gum. So I bought a sugar free bag and I'm chewing it. The flavor goes away after like three chews but I guess it's alright. I'm kind of used to it now. I've been eating low sugar ice cream to try and lose weight. I think it's actually working too. I weighed 184 this morning instead of 187. But I think I might've just not eaten much yesterday. Today my client wants to go to Sonic. Which is fine if it's a close enough drive. But I will try not to get anything there because it causes me high cholesterol to eat at those fast food places. When you run the heater at 68 downstairs in my house it goes up to 85 in my room upstairs. Not a very efficient system, but it's okay. It's kind of funny for some reason. I do enjoy watching my few shows on Netflix. I wonder if I'll be able to watch them for the rest of my life and not get too bored with them. My media disorder is pretty limiting on doing things that most people do to enjoy their lives. Hopefully it all works out. I smiled at things working out I accomplished not getting mad over the heater I am grateful for working out, staying calm, weighing less, gum, chewing, clients, sonic, food, shows, small workarounds and holes in Media Disorder. God bless
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Positive: finishing out my work week. Yep, almost done with the work week. Just one more day to go tomorrow and that's it. I really enjoyed my day off yesterday. It was good to get to watch tv and not have much to do. I wish I could have more days off in the future but I know that I've got to work six days a week. Well, maybe my meds will fix and I'll be able to sleep less then I could probably work 5 days a week instead of six. My client was a jerk to me last session. We were watching a show that made a star wars reference and I said oh like star wars. And he says "It's from star wars dont you get that" In a tone that said, wow you're so stupid you dont' get it's from star wars. And I obviously understood it I even said 'from star wars'. That really pissed me off. He's always talking to me in a condescending tone about tv shows that he's watched and acts like I'm an idiot when I don't perfectly mirror whatever he has to say about the show. It's so uncomfortable. Blegh. I don't know if I'll continue to visit him after we've discontinued services. But anyways I'm on my way to see him shortly. Wish me luck. I smiled at my cross necklace I accomplished eating banana I am grateful for necklace, banana, tv, work meeting, sleep, meds, new medS?, shows, star wars, services, God bless
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2 weeks clean - Journal Review and Summary of my Process
TheNewMe2.0 replied to Lampshade's topic in Celebrate
I don't tell people when I'm quitting sometimes too. I think it's an introvert move. I'm glad you're doing well and staying off the games. -
Yeah take a break. That sounds good to me. I'm getting to have a day off today and it's already great. Just wish they weren't doing construction on the hosue, but oh well.
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@BooksandTrees I'm doing alright. Thanks for your well wishes. Positive: I got a 2nd day off this week. It's been a while since I had two days off in a week. It's been only Sunday for me lately. So much so that this morning I knew I had a day off and I thought it was Sunday even though it's Thursday. I told my mom the other day that I've been feeling like crap ever since I started working six days a week. Perhaps there's some way for me to only work 5 days a week. I don't know. It helps my hours to work six of course but it might not be worth it if I'm feeling so dead all the time. We'll see if I can handle six I guess. The problem is I can't work very much because I sleep 13 hours. Otherwise I could work 8 hours mon thru fri and be good. Darn it. I ate a hungry man last night and got a bad stomach ache all night. I'll try to cook my own food more often from now on. Also I think healthy choice might not give me the ache. I might give it a try. I don't know. Probably just going to try to cook my own food and if I have to go somewhere eat CAVA or Subway. Chipotle gives me the ache too sometimes. I smiled at my day off I accomplished eating banana I am grateful for thursday, 2nd day off, first time off in forever, new hours, new job, cava, subway, possible new meds, dr, psych. God bless
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Positive: I'm still alive I got into a car accident yesterday. I was driving and couldn't see on a day two way narrow road. I accidentally drove the car too far to the right and the wheels went off the road and popped both right tires. They say there might be something wrong with the alignment now too. It's not good. It was a stressful night and I didn't sleep as much as I normally do and missed two doctors appointments because of it. Still all in all I'm glad no one was hurt. It was pretty dangerous out there. Takeaways are: always drive main roads even if it takes longer, don't go on long driving trips and never drive after work. Just sit at home to rest after already having to drive around. Yep. Okay maybe it's okay to drive to walmart only as it's next door to my house or Shell to get gas. But no trips to costco or any long drives 20+ minutes. I'm done driving as much as possible now. I'm kind of frazzled and stressed from the accident. I still haven't totally calmed down yet. I hope watching tv goes well and fixing the car doesn't cost anymore than it already has. I feel kind of crappy from this experience. Also I have this thing where whenever I seem to have an interest in some girl afterwards I get mentally distracted by it and end up getting in accidents while driving or near accidents. It's happened a lot of times including this one. I think it might be a sign that I'm better off just not pursuing dating a woman ever. So maybe lifelong celibacy is in the cards for me. I just don't want to get in any more accidents it's not worth it. I smiled at DC's Legends I accomplished eating too much bread my mom made I am grateful for legends, walmart, shell, walmart bread, short driving, main roads, not driving after work, mom for paying for repairs, blanket that's blue and sweater. God bless
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Thanks for mentioning me in your post. I'm very happy to see that you've completed two years of game free living. That's an incredible accomplishment that you don't see very often on these forums. Thanks for for being here and helping people on the forums. You're possibly the most active member I've seen on here. I definitely don't post as much as you're able to. Congratulations. And good job catching those thieves.
