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Finding the Right Therapist

meajoraswrath

Before scheduling your first appointment here are some questions to ask your therapist:

How often do you treat [diagnosis]?
What approach do you use in therapy?
Do you use any techniques from CBT/DBT/ACT?
What do you think is the goal of therapy?
What’s expected of me?

After your first visit, here are some questions to ask yourself:

Did I feel heard by my therapist?
Did I feel the therapist respected me?
Was the therapist condescending?
Did the therapist seem like a real person, or did they seem like they were playing a role?
Did they respect any research I did prior to my visit?
Did they respect diagnoses made by previous therapists?
Was the therapist active or passive during the session? Which do I prefer?
Does it seem like the therapist will be open to hearing about all of my feelings, including frustrations I may have relating to them?
Did the therapist have a positive outlook on my treatment?
Did I feel better or worse after the session?
Did I feel comfortable with the therapist?
Did my therapist make me feel validated?
Did it seem like a safe place to express my thoughts and feelings?
Did I have to educate my therapist on experiences I felt they should have already been educated on (e.g. LGBT issues)?

Things to remember:

A good therapist will welcome your questions.
A good therapist will answer your questions using plain, understandable language.
A good therapist will make you feel comfortable and will be understanding of your anxiety and other reactions.

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tinsnip

@petermorwood - bad trigger disclipine alert! ;)

petermorwood

The lack of trigger-guards on gun-shape, electric-razor-shape and dust-buster-shape hand phasers - also Klingon and Romulan disruptors - is a piece of iconic (but IMO bad) design dating back to TOS in the 1960s, when it probably seemed like a good idea at the time.

Real Weapons made without trigger guards are rare, often region-specific, and usually old: off the top of my head I can think of pistols from Scotland…

…from the Caucasus…

…from Japan…

…and a few other places like Northern India, but mostly a trigger guard is there to (surprise!) guard the trigger…

Some early revolvers didn’t have them either, with either spur triggers (it didn’t extend any further from between the spur until the action was cocked)…

…or folding triggers which only snapped into position when the action was cocked - in both cases it’s hard to accidentally pull something that isn’t there…

The “Fitzgerald Special” modification doesn’t count, since it starts with a standard revolver then snips bits off, rather than manufacturing it that way.

Besides his bad trigger discipline, Kirk in the GIF is just displaying lousy weapon safety practice, and no amount of explanation* about why he isn’t at risk of trimming his nose-hair down to the bone will change that.

*Unless it’s appeared in one of the series or the movies, such explanation is non-canon, even in an Official novel or comic: @dduane and I were informed long ago that “it’s only canon if it appears/is mentioned on-screen”.

I don’t know if this policy has changed.

682. [DS9] Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

chronotrek

SCORE: (5/5 stars)

Bashir is going to be heading to Romulus for a conference (and DS9’s Romulan attaché, Senator Cretak, will be joining him). He’ll be there to talk about Dominion bioweapons, ketracel white, and the transfer of Federation hospital ships to Romulan control. Garak wonders if someone from Starfleet Intelligence will be joining them on this mission, but Bashir is appalled at the suggestion they violate the good will of their allies to spy on them. (As if the Romulans would have any compunction.)

Garak is not the only one with this thought, though. Bashir is woken in the middle of the night by a visit from Sloan, our favorite Section 31 agent. He wants Bashir to “take the pulse,” so to speak, of particular individuals in Romulan leadership. Bashir, of course, wants nothing to do with Section 31, but Sloan seems confident his curiosity will get the better of him and the only way he can glean more secrets from Section 31 is to play ball. Sisko agrees with Sloan’s assessment and wants Bashir to take the assignment. Admiral Ross will be going along as well so Bashir can coordinate with him and report his findings.

En route to Romulus, Senator Cretak uncorks some Romulan ale for Ross and Bashir; with their alliance in place, the trading embargo has been lifted and Romulan ale is now legal. Of course, that never stopped most Starfleet officers from trying it on occasion, but Admiral Ross never had, and can’t quite handle it. Bashir is surprised when Sloan himself makes an appearance in the mess hall, using an alias. Both he and Ross are unsure how Sloan managed to get assigned to the conference and Ross believes he may have another operative he’s collaborating with.

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danielkanhai

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

ayellowbirds

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?”
“Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.”
“Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?”
“I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Finding the Right Therapist

682. [DS9] Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges