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09-24-2011, 07:04 AM
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  |  Test: Exposure Therapy for Procrastination
I have an idea, and I need a partner. This could turn into something similar to an accountability partner, but really I just want to test it out first. Basically, what I want to do is just have someone to talk to via Skype or phone (phone must be U.S. domestic call) and I'll be like your therapist and walk you through a task you're avoiding / role play with you if appropriate. If you're interested, we can turn around and have you do the same for me. I want to practice taking on a coaching/therapist type of role, so that's part of my desire here. But ultimately I've found that formal therapists are largely useless and that I'm my best therapist, so hopefully practicing being someone else's therapist will help us learn to be better therapists to ourselves as well.  Certainly I experienced this in becoming The Self-Confidence Advocate. ; ) What's funny is that my formal therapist actually did this exposure therapy stuff all the way through with me once, but after that she just refused to do it with me again because she was hell-bent on sticking to Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy. That one time she did it with me was the single most useful moment of all my therapy sessions. Please, no comments from the peanut gallery - only from those who are interested in pursuing this. And I am only interested in speaking with those who speak English very well orally. Last edited by Cochonette; 09-24-2011 at 12:46 PM. |
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09-27-2011, 02:53 AM
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If anyone else is interested, please hit me up because the few people so far are taking a while to get started with, and I'd like to move this forward sooner if possible. Still interested in those of you who've already contacted me, of course. |
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09-30-2011, 02:33 AM
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Okay. The time difference is 5 hours. Evenings work best for me in general. I am finding that pretty much everyone who's contacted me so far lives in Europe and wants to Skype, with the exception of Criseyde. That's been a bit of a problem. I finally did the first session of this with someone - just got off the phone with Criseyde. I thought it went well, and she thought it was helpful. Criseyde, feel free to share your experience / further reflections if you have any. Thanks for experimenting with me; you're awesome. |
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09-30-2011, 02:41 AM
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Also, I forgot to mention that on Tuesday I also did essentially the same thing in my own therapy session with my formal therapist - it was all designed by me, but my therapist did end up contributing a fair amount. Both she and I thought it went well and want to continue the same thing in future sessions. And thanks to OptimistPrime for helping me write out an elaborate plan for the session, which is still in the works. |
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10-04-2011, 07:01 PM
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This is really proving difficult because all of you live in Europe, and I'm not available much in the mornings or afternoon. I scheduled myself waking up early to meet with one European on Skype, and then the person did not show up. So I'm going to ask that anyone who has not already contacted me have a good amount of availability in the evening Eastern Standard Time (-5 Greenwich), starting from 6:30pm or 5:00pm on Mon/Wednesday. Tuesdays I am rarely available before 11pm EST! Also, please do not contact me on Skype with the intent of just text chatting. Sorry I did not make that clear. I said phone or Skype because I am only interested in oral conversations for the intent expressed in this thread. I might make one or two exceptions on that with those who've already contacted me, but that's it for now. I'm sorry, I did not realize how complicated this is! Time Zone Converter - Time & Time Zone Conversion Last edited by Cochonette; 10-04-2011 at 07:06 PM. | |
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10-04-2011, 08:05 PM
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I myself did not remove messages that I sent. Is that possible to remove it? It's new to me. I messaged you first because I did not want to trouble you right away so I just asked whether you were really around or you left your Skype on. I also prefer voice chat to text. So whenever you see me around feel free to write or call. It's really not so easy to find a right time... Take care. | |
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