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Psychic Toilet?

arfie
arfie

Somewhere along the peer support way, talk of venting and feeling wrong about complaining met with commentary about ". . .needing dump this shit." I have since been plagued with images of psychic toilets. I believe that more often than not, complaining about my personal yaddahs is as inappropriate as public defecation, but when ya gotta go, ya gotta go. I find myself with a growing wish to have enough psychic toilets where I can move the bowels of my psyche whenever the need arises.


Am I making sense or am I lost in metaphor again?

LillyPotter
LillyPotter
lol !!
lilmissy7
lilmissy7
Lol I thought the same thing Jenniferswe :)
arfie
arfie
An understandable confusion. I am even guilty of deliberately playing into the confusion. "Psych" gets my vote as the most stigmatized word root in the world. The perceived diff between Psych, Psyche, Psycho, Psychic, and Psychotic is so small but incredibly rigid.

Using them with grammatical accuracy which ruffles the stigma is a point of obsessive compulsion for me. Whacha expect from a word freak? Laughter encouraged. What's life without a smile?
run2bfree
run2bfree
I like that analogy, psychic toilets...I want a high powered turbo charged one
arfie
arfie
I second the motion for soundproofing. That screaming can, indeed, be disconcerting for passers-by but ever so critical for psychic dumps, even for those of us who understand the need.

Gots to design the prototype before we can get to the turbo charging.
nancy6464
nancy6464
huh?
nancy6464
nancy6464
So do you mean like when the ugly spills the ink blotches on the clean or when the rage becomes a rant? ;)~ triple hugs
LooAus
LooAus
Hmm I call it emotionally disembowelling myself in front of other people and always feel guilt shame and remorse. That's what I was taught to feel. I like the psychic toilet metaphor. Hope it has a good flush mechanism so we never have to look at it again
Jillsaundars
Jillsaundars
Lol x good one, a director of a therapy group told me I was vomiting over everyone once...

Yeah I learn to journal talk through my distress so I didn't relapse on bulimia

Screw the world for not showing me a better way

"Have another one of my psychic dumps bastards "

Lol x it works!
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