I know your session is over, but one for your listeners: if I’m feeling better, why do I have to keep taking my meds and going to therapy. Seems like a racket…

Yes.

*Running my therapy session like talk radio* Me: So, Fred from Naperville says he's feeling his mortality lately and doesn't know how to process it. What do you say, Dr. Eric? Dr. Eric: This is highly inappropriate.

youtu.be/jkYTpYxQGLc?...

Update: Dr. Eric thought this was funny but then asked me if I joke online about this sort of thing as a means of minimizing my own anxieties. So I told him about that old tweet in which someone says "this totally owns" about awful things happening and I think I totally played myself by doing so.

back when I was in therapy I mentioned (pre-Elon) Twitter in passing and quickly pivoted away, I could hear it backfiring in real time

"Minimize them from where to where, exactly?" probably works in this scenario. Feel free to borrow it for next time.

Basically, I'm like 0-112 at therapy. Just constantly taking Ls.

the Washington Generals of therapy has entered the chat

Sounds like a small sample size issue. Try again next week, you're due!

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I would have said that I'm too anxious to minimize my own anxieties.

Damn, he cooked you, Craig.

your therapist seems like he gets you, which is good

lol

Can you be, like, my online therapy lawyer? Like you log in with me to my sessions and explain to him when I'm deflecting and transferring vs. when I'm just being a regular internet-poisoned person?

More of a comment than a question but spiders.

Feels like I could try this in couples counseling

Sounds like Dr. Eric wants a piece of the syndication

There you have it, folks, Dr Eric says feelings of mortality are "highly inappropriate" and I guess Fred should learn to bottle everything up like the rest of us.

hey doc, first time caller, long time listener

You just invented Frasier

dont forget the online poll...

I'm worried I'm a bad person because I know I should be boycotting CBS because they caved to fascism but I keep my Paramount+ subscription active to watch Norwich City games

Just the general anxieties are more than enough to fill the 50-minute hour, I would imagine. I feel kind of badly for therapists these days.

We quietly huddle together looking like this 😵‍💫😳😵‍💫😳😬🫣 Amirite @holzl.bsky.social?

Liverpool adding another transfer record attacker but no center back

Good one. I'll put a word in on that.

It's fine, we just need the famously always hurt Joe Gomez to stay healthy. It's fine.

Ever since I saw Dan Marino tear his achilles and learned that they find it near the thigh, I have carried an undercurrent of anxiety about tearing my achilles.

oh no

Next visit - can you ask your therapist how one should find a competent therapist? Are there good questions to ask during intake?

I’m sending a long list

Yeah why am I afraid to get my hair cut?

I'm saving my list for Friday when I see mine.