TER General Board

Usually, the ones that say they don't need it are the ones that need it the most! (eom)
hiddenguy 9141 reads
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I can tell there is a very strong california contingent on this board with all the talk about seeing your counselor.
we folks in the heartland and the south just tough it out without all this counselor crap.

frankie2003a 3660 reads
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And what of the folks in the south who can't tough it out?
Be it marriage problems, drug or alocohol addiction.

Based on your bassackwards point of view people will live
their lives trapped in some twilight zone of not knowing
how to fix their lives.

Nothing wrong with asking for help.  It can never hurt and
can usually help.

dude out

mr.ed 14 Reviews 3437 reads
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That's why you insane wackjobs keep voting like insane wackjobs.  You need help!

MrSelfDestruct 44 Reviews 4701 reads
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I believe this thread falls into the following category that is listed on the Dicussion Boards homepage:

"Please don't post anything that is simply being mean, uses foul language, or that gives out sensitive information about someone. These posts will be deleted."

Baliff...whack his pee-pee!

mr.ed 14 Reviews 3662 reads
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Avsfan04 10 Reviews 4459 reads
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I'm from the heartland myself.  Seeing a counselor shows you're man enough to admit you need help.

LVP 2 Reviews 3482 reads
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Call me silly but I never expected to see that kind of post on this board. Bible study did I miss the sarcasm.

Lex Luethor 3489 reads
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If so, I might try it.

LA woman 3706 reads
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we wouldnt have an idiot for a President.

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GLisHJ 3008 reads
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WhatTheHeck 4807 reads
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Jockeypants 22 Reviews 3379 reads
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I'm hoping for a follow-up meeting.

She's a very very skilled therapist.  And there was a Bible in the drawer next to the bed which I studied after she left, searching for the right words to describe the experience.

Jockeypants 22 Reviews 4161 reads
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for missing your golf date or ski weekend.

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zinaval 7 Reviews 3802 reads
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I thought I bookmarked it, but it's gone!!

/Zin

zinaval 7 Reviews 3002 reads
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Nevertheless, just be informed that your life is the only thing that you will ever have.  If it were a dream, would it put you to sleep?  If you saw it on the television, would you want to change the channel?  

If after you died, you were dead for a million years, only to come back to life and relive it, would you want to die again?  

BTW, if you don't like all this talk of counseling, there are a lot of city boards in the south you can go to.  Find them too uninteresting?

/Zin  

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SolaLove See my TER Reviews 4547 reads
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Now where can I get *my* degree and a license to practice thereapy?
Or should I just get ordained and become a spiritual councelor?
Your story is truely an inspiration!

Jockeypants 22 Reviews 3297 reads
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very relgious gifts...  Put your Soul in Sola & under the Sol & Luna you shall be sanctified.  Amen.

I wrote the whole story in the review marked REDHEAD

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SolaLove See my TER Reviews 2745 reads
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Anneke See my TER Reviews 4930 reads
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What I'm wondering is how this thread ever got started in the first place. Moderator...were you bored?

I love TER. Never a dull moment.

loverofwomen 3 Reviews 3974 reads
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I once believed as you do; that people with problems should just pull themselves together and get a life; that seeing a counselor was a waste of time and money and that being depressed was just another term for whining.  During my life, I've endured everything from bankruptcy to being shot, and after each crisis I'd pick myself up, dust myself off, and move on.

Then my wife died.

If I had not had the good fortune to be treated by both a psychiatrist and a psychologist, I'm confident I'd be dead now.  Until you're hit with true, clinical depression, you can have no idea of the empty blackness that surrounds you day and night, and the utter inability you feel to even lift a finger to help yourself.

Today, I'm among the living.  I'm off medication, and see my psychologist about three times a year.  I'm functioning at a level as high or higher than I was when my wife was alive, and while I'd never have believed it possible, I'm actually happy.

And I live on the east coast.

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SolaLove See my TER Reviews 4155 reads
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Oh my oh my!
I'd thought it would be an early night tonight, now I'm not sleepy at all... Whatever shall I do now?

SolaLove See my TER Reviews 2888 reads
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WHEN will they ever come out with that teleportation thing?!?

Jockeypants 22 Reviews 3945 reads
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stilltryin25 16 Reviews 3335 reads
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There is a lot to be said for living in frigid weather or having counseling available. But life is broad, so to each his, or her, own.

stilltryin25 16 Reviews 3097 reads
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was freely stated. Relish that, even when it irritates you.

zinaval 7 Reviews 3349 reads
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It does rate as a good point in this thread, though.  If you never need a counselor, why would you need a sex therapist/provider?

/Zin

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zinaval 7 Reviews 4166 reads
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Twin cities is the part I couldn't remember.  I kept thinking Minneapolis...

/Zin

TheMealTicket 2836 reads
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TheMealTicket 5112 reads
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Yes, this is the famous Seattle troll under the Aurora Bridge. and yes that is a VW bug!  :)


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cheesewiz 1 Reviews 3874 reads
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I had a long list of insults but thanks to my sensitivity training, I'll pass :-)...

PS. Do you teach your kids to swim by throwing them into a swimming pool?

femaleartist See my TER Reviews 2911 reads
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Negative Generalities are many times showing either a lack of information, prejudice, or down right ignorance (refusal to learn)
As a southerner born and raised I have also seen a counselor and it has nothing to do with geographic location just being able to recognize in one's self a need for some outside help and perspective. That our some members of our society feel that one should be stigmatized for admitting to themself (and others) that they are not infalible is in my oppinion a greater weekness in those whome look negatively apon one whom has asked for help.

SolaLove See my TER Reviews 3876 reads
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Funny thing, I used to visit a counselor right near that troll.  I love to visit it!

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SolaLove See my TER Reviews 3298 reads
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bobb3950 8 Reviews 4590 reads
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Oh, Anneke;

I would love to provide you with some other form of late night entertainment... WINK.

See ya, sweetie.

Just my opinion...
B

TheMealTicket 3824 reads
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Thanks Sola.

I think it is time to cruise down to Fremont and launch the rocket and look at Lenin again.  :)

After all, it IS the Center of the Universe!

I hope you have a great year!


TMT

bobb3950 8 Reviews 3742 reads
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Great post, LOW.

LOW and I have comunicated with each other about this.

I too, am in a situation.
My wife of 28 years has Alzheimers.
It's a family thing, her Grandmother died from , her mother has it and now her, she is 51.

While things are ok now, the future is not so bright.
I seem to have 10-20 years of waiting and worrying about each little "lapse".
And I have serious concerns about our children develpoing this terrible disease.

I have not seen any counselors, yet, because I find my solace in some of the beautiful ladies of this community.
They are my confidants, my counselors, my friends.
They offer compassion, caring, friendship, understanding and allow me to vent, and rant.
They also give me an arm to lean on and a shoulder to cry on when necessary.
And for that I am, and will forever be, eternally grateful.
These few ladies know who they are and for one in particular, know that I treasure your friendship above all else.

Just my opinion...
B

GLisHJ 4262 reads
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frankie2003a 3144 reads
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This especially holds true when the original poster doesn't
respond to every response that is posted (as is so often
done on the Political board).

BTW, that's a great picture.

luv`nlife 5 Reviews 3001 reads
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Female this comment isn't directed at you and it's late in this game but you gave me the opportunity to post as a follow-up.  I completely agree with what you said about negative generalities but it applies in all directions too.  Funny how the comebacks found a way to take a swipe at southerners, midwesterners and republicans.  Anyone want to add a few more stereotypes to the thread?

VonRyan 15 Reviews 3230 reads
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if one needs "therapy" outside of TER's "shock"...lol

then whatever keeps their boat afloat and to make it stabile when seas are rough.

Just as long as one who seeks counsel understands...

Counselors can be a good thing just as long as the counselor don't need counseling...

http://www.jokes.thefunnybone.com/waves/GambProb.wav

So...be sure to ask where they got their watch from and if they still believe in Santa?

Cheers!



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MrSelfDestruct 44 Reviews 2669 reads
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not based in fact.  There are plenty of counselors and therapists who work in the "heartland" and the South...just check the yellow pages there...so the statement is not only bogus, it is so obviously false that it serves no other purpose than to instigate.  If the poster truly feels that there is a noticable difference in the general social outlooks of the regions in question, it could have been phrased without the slam on So Cal.  Even a certain inappropriately named individual on the political board (I know you are aware who I am referring to) who regularly used to post inflammatory threads had them based in "some" fact.  This thread was intentionally stated just to instigate, and therefore is unnecessary, and what I consider "mean".  

Your patience goes farther than mine, 25, and obviously GND agrees with you, as the thread was left up, and I have to admit some of the responses were worth it, but the reason I generally stay on the National board now and shun the political board anymore is to avoid the constant acrimony that is present there.  It eventually saps my strength to the point where I cannot absorb the valid points that are made.

I relish freedom...but too much of anything isn't a good thing.  Even freedom.

TheMealTicket 5574 reads
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MfSD 39 Reviews 3899 reads
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"can tell there is a very strong california contingent on this board with all the talk about seeing your counselor.
we folks in the heartland and the south just tough it out without all this counselor crap."


Frankly, I don't think you could recognize shit from shinola, much less the composition of, or a contigent on this board. MfSD>>>>

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