http://stupid-toasters.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] stupid-toasters.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomtherapy2009-03-31 07:33 pm

Lend Me An Ear

So, we've all got our problems. And, if you don't have any problems, well, I salute you. But the majority of us have some issues. And maybe we don't know what to do about those issues. This is the post for you! Ask for advice! Ask what you should do in the case of: how to ask someone out for the first time, how to make long distance relationships work, how to break up with someone, how to tell someone they look fat in those jeans, anything at all you want advice on!

And one and all can answer, give you advice, speak from experience. We can help each other because frak knows, we've all been through some crap.

And really, this is therapy. We should be play therapist!
weetuskenraider: (Um - Rubbing Neck)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
Anyone have any suggestions on how to make my fanatical crazy alien other personality go away? Because she's really creeping me out.

Not that making her go away is ever going to happen. And the first person who suggests an emocoma gets hurt.

[identity profile] whitedeathpod.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
I found that throwing them in dumpsters tends to work. Barring that, it's all about bitchslapping and letting them know who's boss. Of course, that doesn't always work considering mine took over for a little while.
weetuskenraider: (Slight Smirk)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I have the weirdest feeling that trying to bitchslap her into submission is going to manifest itself as the most surreal metaphysical form of emo cutting in the history of possibly ever. o.O

[identity profile] whitedeathpod.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
Can you ignore? That worked for me for awhile. The guy only popped up to give me a hard time. And he wore a body suit. A BODY SUIT. How'd yours get there?
weetuskenraider: (Being Shaped Ow)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Somebody's twisted idea of a belated fourteenth birthday present?

There was torture. And I don't know it yet but there was implanting of reprogrammed brain cells.

[identity profile] whitedeathpod.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds all kinds of familiar! Mine was less torture, more cruelty but you know. Have you had someone actually look at your head? I mean, physically. Couldn't hurt.

Not that I let anyone look at my head when I was going through all that...
weetuskenraider: (But.  Um.)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
That might not go over so well with her. Domain Kwaad has a thing about people not touching their heads.
tyler_gone: (Guy Love)

[personal profile] tyler_gone 2009-04-01 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Acknowledge her. Talk to her. See what she wants.

Then tell her no and mean it. I shot myself to kill mine, but, uh, I was kind of crazy.

Cleaning up the damage for me is drugs and making myself sleep and avoiding stress, but I don't think that's how it works in your canon.

weetuskenraider: (Suspicious)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
I think getting addicted to something will lead to me turning evil and torturing Ben, so that might be out.

I might have to talk to her, though. Because this is getting, um, inconvenient.
tyler_gone: (death glare)

[personal profile] tyler_gone 2009-04-01 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not an addict. I mean, I don't think so. I go off the stuff once in a while.

It's just less likely to lead to me turning evil than the other options.

Do you usually talk to her? Or do you black out and she takes over?
weetuskenraider: (Contemplative)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
No blacking out because I'm so not doing that bit. She just sort of sneaks in and takes over sometimes. Sometimes it's because I've been thinking Yuuzhan Vong when people ask me for advice on them, but lately it's just been sort of happening.
tyler_gone: (listening and impatient)

[personal profile] tyler_gone 2009-04-01 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
For me it's always been a stress thing, or an insomnia thing, or a general way for me to avoid things I don't want to deal with, like emotions or sex. And sometimes for no reason.

I don't have a lot more advice, but we can compare notes anytime.

[identity profile] death-of-hope.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, and I bet you're creeping her out, too.
weetuskenraider: (Kinda Meepy)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
You think?

Sithspawn, I didn't think about that. I am kind of everything she hates.

[identity profile] death-of-hope.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you probably have some things in common. There's the gray spot where you overlap; if we were completely separate, we wouldn't know we were there.

...Which probably doesn't make any sense to the sane contingent, but you get my drift.

solo_sword: (lip biting)

[personal profile] solo_sword 2009-04-01 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Emocoma.

Look, I should totally get to say it.
weetuskenraider: (Mysterious Half-Smile)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, yes, you can say it.

[identity profile] notyourpawn.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I had to kill mine, but she was only ever the physical manifestation of my own guilt and self-hatred over surviving where my family died.

... sort of. I mean, she started there and took on a life of her own. Such matters are never straightforward, are they?
weetuskenraider: (But.  Um.)

[personal profile] weetuskenraider 2009-04-01 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think my galaxy does straightforward, at least not in my time.

. . . clearly we need to talk more.

[identity profile] notyourpawn.livejournal.com 2009-04-01 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
We should. Especially as I hope you would not be unnerved by the little killing spree I went on, in order to take her down.

Far too many people are, I fear. I suppose it's understandable, but it means I can't really open up very well.