JPR Mental Health Support Group

Clearly, this one never had a chance of working out for you. I know nothing about therapy or therapists, so I’ll just wish you good luck and leave it at that.

The older I get, the more I think about various mistakes I made. Sometimes it’s pretty consequential, like the time I screwed up an election. Other things are smaller, like the times I couldn’t find the right words to say to someone who was feeling pain. As I approach my senility, it all runs together. Weird.

Good suggestion @pam2. What about volunteering at the library to help tutor some of the kids in your area? You have the ability and ‘they’ say that in order to help yourself, help someone else. Also library’s might be helpful to a writer in progress….you’re ok my friend. I don’t like myself sometimes either, I think we are all alike in that way.…[Read more]

He/She is right. That’s all you can do. Even small progress is progress. Also you can’t rewrite the past. Try not to dwell on it. Are there any opportunities for volunteer work in your area? Focusing on helping others can help your self esteem and take your mind off your problems. (It doesn’t have to be helping people. Helping animals is good…[Read more]

Every inch of recovering to feeling better is a blessing. I can’t wait to read a few pages of an eBook without any pain. 🙂

I’ve had similar symptoms before. It does not, however, sound like Covid.

As for avoiding politics, I don’t blame you. All this obsessing over Trump’s health is…irritating, to say the least. Trump must love it. He’s sucking up all the oxygen in most of the news rooms.

Sure glad to hear you are alright now.

Self-disclosure is tricky thing. Before sharing personal information, a good therapist should always question his/her motives: Will this information benefit the client? Or am I just running off my mouth for nontherapeutic reasons? A good therapist is supposed to offer a nonjudgmental environment in which the client feels safe sharing his/her…[Read more]

As we are here in the Napa Valley. Soooo, evaluate him as a therapist. If it seems like he can help you, tell him you obviously disagree on politics and you want to avoid that topic in the future. If he gets pissy about that, or he doesn’t seem to help you, drop him. If you have a lot of choices in therapists, drop now.

The guy is clueless, and that doesn’t bode well for him helping you, and frankly (despite the fact that he probably has a masters degree for his position) he doesn’t seem very bright. So are you going to be able to respect his opinions and if not will you listen to his advice?

I worked for well over a decade supporting community based mental…[Read more]

Anyone who thinks that Black Lives Matter, now funded by billionaires of the oligarchy, has been taken over by Marxists and socialists is clearly ignorant at best. Anyone who thinks that Antifa, or the left in general, wants “to destroy America,” whatever that means, is probably a Fascistic capitalist greedhead himself, especially if he’s Black.…[Read more]