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Therapy vs emotional support
What I’ve Learned From My Parents’ Arranged Marriage
Reframing a Crush: Distilling the “like” out of “like like”
Oh yeah, thanks for linking that! Looking over it now, I got some of my ideas from this post when I read it quite a few years ago, and forgot to link it in my main post.
Yeah, it should be noted that anyone who knows me cannot be my client, though I can take on friends of friends as clients. Regarding Reflect specifically, you can select how many matches they give you and/or contact Reflect directly if you are matched with people you know, to help mitigate this issue.
A Step-by-step Guide to Finding a (Good!) Therapist
Huh, this is very different from the experience of myself and those who I have spoken to about this when writing this post. Is this something you or anyone else has written about?
Societal Growth Requires Rehabilitation
This was initially written in the context of my therapeutic practice, so alas, I cannot provide a link. I appreciate your thoughtful response! Glad it was helpful
On Gender and Emotional Support
Categorizing Love: How having more words for love might make it less scary
Bounds of Attention
Sometimes it depends on a person’s mood, and sometimes it depends on the person or the specifics around the activity. There are movies and shows I would only watch if I wanted to zone out, but a mystery or thriller isn’t one of them, and it would be hard to get totally engrossed in something I’d seen a few times because I know what’s happening next. But for music, it’s been long enough since I’d played that I wouldn’t be able to use that as a passive distraction—even for a relatively simple piece.
Active vs Passive Distraction
The Self: Momentary vs Lifetime
The Desired Response
I’m betting that this is what he plans on explaining in the next post, where this post is a precursor to explain why it’s difficult to convey.
Agreed, regarding CFAR stuff.
And Qiaochu, even if you haven’t experienced this yet, I believe you are or have gotten closer than most.
So glad you wrote this, and looking forward to where you take this thread of posts. There is a whole bunch of stuff here that doesn’t get touched upon enough for what we’re all trying to do, and I think writing about it needs to happen more.
So glad this could give you hope! :)