My Mosaic

Complaint was put through the proper channels at local area health @tyme the patient liaison officer read it, addressed it with community mental health and then informed me of such and that comm mh will contactme.

it was done pretty promptly.

just feel like such a burden. Not worth the hassle and bother.

Ahhh, makes sense. @Bow

It's such a strong narrative in that you don't feel you are worth the bother or 'hassle'. Maybe people really do care?

I know we care.

At the same time, I hear how strong these schemas are.

How is schema therapy going anyway? I feel I haven't heard much about it in a while.

They certainly don’t show it @tyme

Schema therapy group is going ok. Finally getting back into it after it was cancelled for a few weeks. And everyone was there this week.
its super hard work though. Even just showing up is hard. We’re all pretty good at recognizing the inner critic. But that’s about it. Did some work this week on the over controller (pretty much all our ED behaviours). It’s a common one for all of us. Still really struggle with health self and inner child. Work in progress. We do a lot of chair work. And we each do a check in.

When you say 'chair' work, what do you mean @Bow ?

Each schema part has a chair in the room and when we start talking from that part we move to it @tyme it helps us to identify and separate them all.
my psychologist for individual therapy is doing this with me now too as a continuation.

That's really really cool. So as you are talking, do you keep moving chairs? What happens if someone else is in the chair? Or does everyone sit somewhere else and when it is time for them to talk, they can sit in whatever chair? @Bow

That's pretty interesting as a way to help people recognise the schema that is 'talking'.

Is this a well known strategy? Or is it something only your group does?

hey @Bow !!! how've you been? hope planning for your trip hasn't been too hectic 😊

We usually do one person at a time @tyme we will do our check in…. And as we start talking, if the facilitator starts recognizing certain schemas, they will tell us to move to a certain chair. And then we keep moving through out a check in. Then someone else will do their check in.
We will also do a group exercise, and we will each play a different schema with a certain scenario.

I do chair work with my psychologist now too.

im not sure if other people do it?

Hey @rav3n been a rough week. Some stuff different day. And I’ve had a heavy week appointment wise which has taken a lot out of me.

we haven’t really done any more trip planning this week. Got all the main things booked. I need to go rummage in the garage for a crate. Need something to put travel trip stuff in as we buy it.

I’ve just finished a Lego set that I have been working on this week. It ‘cheap Lego’ from aliexpress… went together alright and it looks really good.

how are you??

awh sorry to hear its been rough!! @Bow totally get that having all those appointments must've been exhausting too, i see you've had a schema session recently, you still feeling quite raw after that one?

yay that's great that all the main stuff is booked and ready!! have you travelled a lot in the past? I feel like remember you mentioning some places before.

love that the lego is on theme with the europe travels!!
i've been a bit busy this week too, getting ready for a lil Sydney trip next week and had some birthday events to attend so its been socially exhausting. i'm going to start making bracelets tonight (going to give them out to people at a festival) which i'm looking forward to 😊