Go to therapy

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Be My Therapist

rules

1. Comment with your character. Your top level needs to include a problem your character is facing, an issue in canon, their regrets, their worries, their angst, etc. Just put it alllll out there. No blank comments, please.

2. Others can offer advice, comfort, or a listening ear and shoulder to cry on, if that's applicable.

3. Because sometimes all you need is someone to talk to.

Comments

yoshida hirofumi / csm

[octa]

My job has been really tough lately. The person in my care really doesn't get the big picture... but on the other hand, I get that he's just trying to live a normal life. It's got me thinking that maybe I'm also yearning for some normalcy in my life. I don't know if a person like me is capable of living a normal life, though.

[ prefs in journal! ]

[catleaping]

Anyone is capable of living a normal life, if they really want to make that effort. Why would you think you weren't?

Loki / MCU

[coldsong]

How do you know whether you're actually getting better or whether you're just learning to function through the pain in such a way that no one else notices? Especially when better is so subjective anyway...

[regulated]

Well, I sleep on a bed now, so that feels like a pretty positive step toward recovery. Think it's pretty different for everyone, though, depending on your damage.

[sirintegra]

I suppose it depends on what "better" means to you, then, it being so subjective. Or you need an alternative measure of progress.

[sgrogers]

I haven't been through what you have, so I won't pretend to understand it all.

[He has, however, been through plenty of his own trauma, and he's also done a lot of reading and talking to other people with various forms of PTSD. Loki's probably aware. So he's not an expert on Loki's particular issues, but he's not without knowledge.]

I think what stands out to me about what you just said, is do you have people around you who could notice? Who should notice?

And what do you think 'better' should look like for you?

[discipleship]

Isn't learning to function well enough that no one notices a kind of getting better? At least you can function. It's a start.

Maedhros | the silmarillion | ota

[holdshisown]

How do you keep from losing yourself in memories of past horrors? A noise, a scent, a careless touch catching me off guard and I feel as if I am back there... it seems so real in the moment. So real that I forget where I am at times and lash out at enemies that are not even there. I don't quite know what to do about it anymore...

[yeahmagnets]

I don't know that there's a way to, like, permanently get rid of it. But grounding helps. Breathing exercises, naming specific objects around the room and what color they are, focusing on the feel of the floor beneath your feet. Whatever it takes to keep you here and not drifting there, I guess.

[ Or you could just get fucked up night after night and fill your house with enough noise to drown out whatever's in your head. He's always been better at giving advice than taking it. ]

[discipleship]

I focus on something more important. A memory. Of someone who matters to me. Like a guiding light.

[coldsong]

That's...not uncommon for those who've suffered intense trauma. I'm not sure if hearing that makes it better or worse for you. But...I have the same experiences. They've lessened in frequency as time goes on, but the intensity remains much the same.

You can identify what sets you off and avoid those triggers. That's not a permanent solution, but it should reduce the attacks until you can find a way to manage them.

People keep suggesting things like hobbies and pets to me, which are nice ideas and all, but they don't pull you out of the moment when you're stuck there. Well, a pet might, but I'd be afraid I'd hurt it accidentally. [He's thinking about this, though. Trying to come up with a way to help.]

Seth 🐐 Radiant

[hornedkid]

I know a lot of people think of me as a monster... and I choose not to be one. It takes a lot more effort than it used to. I think about some of the people I've met... and all I want to do is make them suffer. It makes me feel sick- is that who I really am? Is it just a matter of time until I'm exactly as dangerous as people say?

[waveofexhaustion]

I don't think it has to be like that... Do you have people around you that you trust and feel safe with?

Ranma Saotome | Ranma 1/2 | OTA

[catsgothistongue]

[He got dragged here against his will, with him grumpily complaining about this not being a big deal and that this is all a waste of time under his breath. But since he's going to have to be forced to be here, he's going to reluctantly speak.]

... I guess my life's a little stressful at times. I know my life isn't like most people's, but isn't that just life as a whole? One big cycle of stress that carries on until you either die or finally find what you're looking for?

[Be less vague and avoidant Saotome...]

If I really got to complain about useless stuff, then I'll say sometimes I wonder if my life could be better. My life's not that bad, it can be a little stressful sometimes when people either try to kill or hit me or seemingly get angry at me for always saying or doing something wrong. It could be a lot worse. There are some things though I wish I could change, people I wish I could stop making angry at me all the time or disappoint, things I would do just about anything to go back in time to change... I just want to know what I'm doing so wrong that's making my life one big mess?

[toouncute]

Sometimes you're not doing anything wrong. Sometimes it's just other people making your life harder than it needs to be.

( She probably shouldn't have said anything. It was odd to see Ranma being so candid. It's why she was currently facing away from him with her arms crossed. Her excuse is that it's just to give him some form of privacy.

But it's really just because she's a bit embarrassed. )

I think you deserve better than what you've got though.

Rebecca Bluegarden | Edens Zero | OTA

[catleaping]

[ She really REALLY didn't want to do this but it was the least important of things weighing on her mind lately. So.. ]

My mother was forced to abandon me when I was a baby because of a "Church" she was in. Now 20 years later, she expects me to see her as a loving mother, but I don't see either her or my father as parents, even though they seem to almost be desperate with wanting to make up for the years lost. The last time I saw her she told me I should "try and understand" why I was abandoned. [ In the most flippant and disrespectful manner possible. ]

And I do, but I still can't bring myself to feel anything for her, and since she's still with That Church (even though she claims it's different now) I don't really want to try. Don't get me wrong, I don't think I -hate- them, but I'm not in a rush to get to know them either.

So why do I feel like the bad guy here?

[legitlessgrump]

You're naturally a good person. I've never seen you act spiteful or show outright hatred for someone unless they deserved it. And even then, you don't really cross the line I did before, and would still do if it meant protecting someone.

[Or if he snapped from one too many buttons being pressed, but he counted on others to pull him back.]

v / cyberpunk 2077

[excorpo]

Sometimes I wonder why I fight so hard to live when I was already supposed to be dead. Got shit to do, sure, but it's just weird.

[rage_rekker]

I wonder the same thing. I always thought it was because being alive is something known and more comfortable than something unknown.

[OOC: just a trigger warning that this character has attempted suicide in the past.]

dolph laserhawk | captain laserhawk

[laserhawk]

I was taken from the streets to become the face of the military. Literally. They took half my face and arm to "fix" me and told me I should be grateful. And for a while, I was brainwashed enough to think I was. Then it got too much. They wanted me to bury everything I was.

Then I left . . . I found someone. I thought I had a future. Then he betrayed me.

I picked myself up again. I thought I found someone else I could believe in. Even trust, for a short while. She betrayed me too.

I guess . . . I don't see the point anymore. No one is ever going to see me as a person.

[sisterimperator]

[ Why was Sister Imperator here? She wasn't the type to dispense kind words or to offer sympathy. She was ill suited to be any sort of therapist, as she probably needed one herself.

Perhaps the answer was that Satan always found those who were in pain. Just as the Creator supposedly did. Who the suffering heeded - well, that was the question, wasn't it? ]

That's unfortunate.

bucky barnes ( mcu )

[regulated]

How do you get your partner to stop putting fridge magnets on your prosthetic arm? He keeps buying more stupid kitsch ones and slapping them on when I'm not paying attention.

[fiendishfeline]

Sorry, honey. You don't.

(Darth) Maul | Star Wars

[survivalthroughhate]

Even after getting what I have wanted for so long, I'm still not happy. The price felt too high. Sometimes I wonder if I should have made different decisions or if that would have mattered at all.

Hellboy | Hellboy | OTA

[flamingcrown]

I hate... hate... that no matter how much I do right, people will see me as the bad guy. The whole 'prophecy' thing or just the fact I take more after my dad than my mom.

And sometimes I think I deserve it.

[superstylishsquid]

Demon life problems, am I right?

[His head tilts in a way that suggests a rolling of the eyes.]

I know how you feel, spent an embarrassingly long time trying to convince myself I was one of the bad guys because of it. Still...there are a few who don't seem to care what someone is, who would even call a devil a good person. They're rare, but they do exist.

Kara Danvers | Supergirl (DCTV)

[wapow]

I just can't... save anyone if I'm broken, too. And I've been pretending and lying in order to survive for so long that sometimes I don't know where the lie ends and begins.