u/Maximum-Nobody6429

I (27f) have my bachelors in communications. I’ve been working in healthcare admin for 4.5 years. I love it and want to be more involved in patient care. I’m starting my pre reqs this fall and am conditionally accepted into an ASN program if I pass. I have a goal of being a CRNP and working in psychiatry. I start next week and I think all of what I’m doing is starting to get to me. I start a new job next week, start classes, moved back with my parents, and really have flipped my life upside down for this. The anxiety is really getting to me and I’m questioning if it’s worth it. At the same time, I also feel so confident that this is what I’m supposed to do. I feel so much better doing this than I did before I started my undergrad. I think I’m just really scared and hoping I’m doing the right thing here.

I have a hinge match who wants to come / move to Lancaster and I’ve offered to show him the best places. This is a hinge date, so I want to have a little fun and be a little flirty.

We’ve worked together for 4 years through my mid 20s and she’s been the most consistent person in my life for these last four years. She went out on maternity leave last week and I do miss our weekly appointment. I am seeing someone else during her leave, but it’s different. I’m trying really hard to not compare them especially since I’m just starting a new therapeutic relationship, but it is hard and I am realizing how lucky I got that my first ever therapist was so good. We clicked pretty instantly and she’s worked with me through one too many situationships, a bipolar diagnosis, and severe depressive episode (among other things). I don’t know, I guess I didn’t expect to miss my therapist like this. I mean it makes sense though, she’s been a weekly part of my life for four years.

I saw a post here about acne and lamotrigine and now I’m curious. I’m 27f and I have PCOS and honestly have always had acne. But, since starting, I have noticed an increase even with my Spirolactin and creams. I don’t plan on stopping lamictal, it’s been absolutely incredible for my mood, but I am curious is anyone has had this experience.

Practicing gratitude has been such a helpful tool for me to manage my anxiety and stress levels and I’m so glad I have gotten into the habit of practicing gratitude. Sharing it with someone makes it so much more impactful. For example, I’ve been working with the same therapist for 4 years. She’s been incredible and has helped me so much and I’m really grateful for all the work that we’ve done. Monday night after our session before she returns from maternity leave I sent her an email telling her how grateful I am for these last few years. My sharing and her response made that specific gratitude practice so much more impactful.

So I guess my point of this response is that if you’re grateful for someone, tell them. They’ll appreciate it and you’ll feel good too.

Im changing jobs and my new job is PRN which means I don’t qualify for health insurance so I am trying to go through marketplace. At my previous job i was making 45-50k / year. I estimated at my new job (plus a side job) I will make ~35k. I’m also going back to school so I won’t be able to work full time and think this is a relatively safe estimate. I put this in and am going to get a pretty decent monthly tax credit which makes my total monthly payment pretty affordable. If I underestimate and make more than i expect am I going to owe taxes? My anxiety is also telling me im going to get in trouble with the government if I underestimate my income, so… im asking Reddit first.

(I work in healthcare and my job included calling patients to let them know their insurance denied procedures and bc of that I refuse to go on a Medicaid plan, use Aetna, UHC, or UPMC. I would rather be self pay.)

I’m going back to school in the fall and am looking for good places in the city where I can sit and work and study. I have been to west art do like it a lot, but I’d like to find some other places that I can go. I’ve never had a remote job (healthcare) so I’m excited to have the chance to do work in a coffee shop/co working space.

I’ve been seeing my therapist 100% virtually for 4 years. Tomorrow is our last session before she goes on maternity leave until November. She’s my first therapist and I’ve never had a last session. The plan is to go back to seeing her when she comes back but so much can happen in a few months and there’s a chance it could be our last ever session.

I have so much to talk about tomorrow and I’m kinda anxious about not having enough time. I’m also really terrible at goodbyes and usually just cut and run from relationships. But I’ve really been trying to be better and as uncomfortable as it is, I am getting better and I want to do this one right (even if it’s just a “see ya later.”)

I think my therapist says “two things can be true” almost every single session. And it’s something I need to hear every time she says it lol but I’m curious what other therapists say as their go to.

im only on season 3 so no spoilers please

So I’m watching the episode where the fang goes to Boston and Dawson shows his film at a film festival and it doesn’t go as he planned (obviously). It made me realize that any time people try and give Dawson helpful advice about anything in his life, he gets so defensive and shuts down or gets mean to the other person. Taking feedback is really hard to do and I’m admittedly not the best at it myself, but it’s also a necessary part of life if you want to grow and change and become a better version of yourself. And you especially have to be able to take people critiquing your work when you want to make films for living.

Anyway, that’s my short soapbox on Dawson for tonight.

I (27f) haven’t been in school in 6 years (2020 college grad) and it’s been even longer since i stepped foot in a math / science class. I know school has changed quite a bit since covid and I’m wondering if I’m going to need an iPad? I have a good laptop, but I know a lot of note-taking is done digitally now. Is it “required” or am I going to be okay with pen and paper?

Also what other school supplies are going to be helpful? I’m balling on a budget here but I also want to be successful. I feel really good about this and going to nursing school and I’m genuinely so excited (and also so totally scared).

ETA: I’m taking clinical math, a&p, and a theology course. I’ll be eligible to start clinicals in the spring.

I have a history of depression and mood disorders and I’ve been feeling a little depression slip in through the meds and I’ve been having a hard time lately. I’m grateful that this time around I do have friends to text and I do have places to go to keep me connected to the world rather than getting more and more isolated. Even if it’s hard and lonely and I don’t want to.

I am not a therapist. I don’t want to be. But I do work in healthcare as an administrative assistant / surgical scheduler to two pain management specialists. Over the last few weeks the amount of calls I’ve had from patients who are expressing how depressed they are has increased significantly. I don’t have any training in dealing with this. I can only respond as human (which might be enough), but it is really challenging for me. I have my own personal experience with mental illness (mainly depression) so I do truly feel for the patients but i struggle to compartmentalize the conversations and it’s bleeding into the rest of my day.

(And yes, I do plan on bringing this up with my own therapist as I am going to nursing school and this is going to be something I deal with on a more regular basis.)

I’ve been seeing her 100% virtually for 4 years, she has owned her own telehealth practice for the last 2.5 years. She’s literally the most amazing therapist and she’s a huge reason why I’m here today. She also is so fast at replying to emails. She’s going on maternity leave and was sending emails out about that and I had asked if she could send my info to a therapist I found to see while she was off. We went back and forth a few times and she responded within hours. Tonight (at 9pm) I emailed her about some insurance stuff. She responded in a minute.

Shes also totally cool with me emailing her things I want to talk about in session, things that I know I’m going to avoid talking about but I really need to talk about. In the last 4 years I went through a pretty severe depressive episode and needed some additional support and sent emails for extra support. We’ve never done therapy over emails and I have never expected a response, but 99% of the time get “thanks for sharing, let’s talk in session. Here are some things you can do, let me know if you need anything.”

She’s my first therapist. Is this normal?? I feel like a big part of it is because she’s virtual only so email is really the only thing that we have to do admin stuff like insurance issues, scheduling, etc.

I love my therapist, she’s literally amazing, but she does get behind on billing. I hit my deductible about a month ago and should be paying $20/session, but it’s still in the system has paying the insurance rate of $128/session. It feels so awkward to have to talk to her about billing and money and that kind of thing, but that’s a lot of money and I’m starting nursing school in the fall. (And have a $7800 tuition bill due in August.) I know I probably should’ve said something before, but I also kinda don’t mind needing a refund because then it’s like “free money” (girl math). How do I bring this up? This happened last year and I obviously did get a refund, but i let her go through her process and let her talk to me first. I also don’t want it to seem like I’m trying to tell her how to do her job , because I do work in healthcare and do know my way around insurances and prior auths and things like that.

I’ve been seeing my therapist for 4 years. She’s absolutely incredible and honestly has changed my life in the best ways. We started out biweekly and then switched to every week when I got super depressed and need extra support. We’ve stayed weekly since. My life has changed exponentially in the last year and over the last few months I feel like I’m missing out on social events that I want to go to because of therapy. It’s not every week and sometimes I really do need therapy, but sometimes I don’t want to go (don’t feel like I need to go). Anyway she leaves for maternity leave in 2 weeks and I do want to continue seeing someone while she’s out because I do have SO many changes happening, but maybe just as a check in type thing. Maybe I don’t need weekly therapy anymore. Maybe I’m ready to graduate therapy.

I (27f) am in the middle of completely changing my life. (Going back to school for nursing, new job, back home with my parents, etc.) A lot of this is possible because I’ve been in therapy the last 4 years. And this change has been so hard. Like, really hard and there have been a lot of growing pains. And selfishly I wish I could have my therapist’s support through it. Therapy has been the most consistent thing in my life for the last 4 years and in the middle of all this change I’m losing my therapist. I am going to keep going and have an appointment set up with another therapist for while mine is on leave, but it’s just one more thing that’s changing and I’m just struggling with it all. (Oh and my psych np also went out on maternity leave last month and she was actually incredibly supportive and helpful and my inspiration to go back to school to get my np to work in psych to help people like myself.)

I going back to school for nursing after graduating with a degree in PR back in 2020. I know school has changed quite a bit since then and I’m looking at getting an iPad to start the school year with, I just don’t know which to get. I don’t need anything fancy and would prefer to keep it as cheap as possible, but I do want something that will last at least the 2.5 years I’ll be in school for my ASN.

I’ve been working with my therapist 100% virtually for 4 years. She’s seen me through my mid 20s which included one too many situationships, a bipolar 2 diagnosis and severe depressive episode, and moving out of my parent’s house and back in with them just to name a few things. She’s been so incredibly consistently helpful and supportive through it all and I’m so grateful for her. I would not be where I am today without therapy. She’s going on maternity leave soon and I want to thank her somehow. It’s hard because we are 100% virtual so even though there is this amazing relationship we’ve never met in person and some things don’t work as well. For example, showing her pics is a little harder through a screen or we may email more than we normally would because that’s how I can show her things.

I just want her to know how grateful I am for the last few years so if you’re a virtual therapist, please let me know how I can show / tell her that.

(Also she is coming back and I do want to see her when she does, but there are a ton of changes in my life right now and if it’s not something that works out for some reason, I need her to know I’m just so grateful to have worked with her.)