#outpatient

[borderlinereminders]

have you ever been to an outpatient program?

Hi anon,

I haven’t personally been in an outpatient program, so I can’t speak from that exact experience. I have, however, spent time in a psych ward early in my recovery (this was not a choice, and I found it made things worse). While that was an inpatient experience (very different from outpatient), it's the closest thing I have to share. I don't want to discourage you from anything, I just don't have any experience with this topic. And my feelings about programs like this might be clouded by the only experience I have. If you do have questions though, I can still post your ask and maybe followers might have answers for you.

[miss3d-messages]

LAST WEEK IN OUTPATIENT WHO CHEERED!??!?!

[xenophasic-xenopunk]

[lilliryth]

Perhaps this is an opinion that will seem controversial to those who like to keep spirit and science in separate containers, but it really just like. gets to me sometimes, just how much of therapy is witchcraft.

A therapist once had me visualize what it would look like if I “pulled” my traumatic feelings out of my body physically. I saw myself gather a heap of terrified ants, and she then told me to ask them what their purpose was, and if they’d be okay converting that nervous energy into enthusiasm for the task at hand instead. The same therapist also had me visualize speaking to myself as a little girl. My patron deity, Loki, once had me do the same.

In my outpatient, I remember how much it struck me that group therapy is like. literally just a coven. We would sit in a circle and enter into the space together via meditation, followed by spending the rest of the time doing Good Work for ourselves and others, with the guidance of someone knowledgeable who’d been through it all.

These things are never separate when I look at them. To heal oneself and others, to care for the world, to craft a better future with shared willpower and kind intention—they are common goals with very common practices.

Magic has always just been the application of old sciences, and the new ones aren’t unfamiliar.

[bloodypeachblog]

Tw: medical procedures, hospitals, that kind of stuff.

To let besties know in case I'm away for a while: @fatgumsupremacy @omniuravity @etherness

Welp, it's happening. I'm going to have surgery next friday.

Not open surgery, thank god, just outpatient. But I'm still having to be put under anesthesia. They're gonna stick a scope in me and zap the stones out then put a flexible tube (stent) in me. Hopefully since I've been having movement with the stones, they won't have to go as deep. But that's probably wishful thinking.

I'm still a lil scared about being put under, but I just have to talk to my anesthesiologist about my concerns and they'll have everything handled. Now the biggest thing I'm concerned about is the stent. I've heard horror stories of how uncomfortable and how painful it is, but my mom says that it's different for most people. I have a cousin that's had the surgery and stents a bunch of times and he's fine, so I'm not that panicked about it anymore. Still kinda worried.

At least after the whole thing, my boyfriend and his family are coming to stay for a week and a half, then I'm going to their place in Mississippi for that same amount of time. So, I'll be a big girl and get it over with. Send your thoughts and prayers and wish me luck, especially when next friday comes around. I'll need tons of those.

[mcsystemstuff]

the doctor basically just said “if you can’t get your child into therapy ASAP you need to send them to the local outpatient center”

i don’t know how to feel about that

[awfullyserotonin]

x

[honey-almondmilk]

Dear Olanzapine,

Please stop making me so fucking hungry. I am already overweight enough.

Thank you for your time.