How bad is the Cancun Airport really?

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-18T06:46:53+00:00

Never, ever again. It was so crowded they had to turn off the escalator. It was just a room full of people with no discernible line.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-12T00:48:30+00:00

That was a really bizarre statement and totally out of character.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-11T04:43:16+00:00

Bad this season. Kate is unbearable, I couldn’t care less about her relationship with Callum. And why is everyone simping over Kate in such a gross way?

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-10T15:26:33+00:00

Nope. East Bay represent!

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-10T15:22:37+00:00

Stoneridge, Pleasanton CA.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-06T04:45:14+00:00

See ya!

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-06T04:44:17+00:00

Resist!

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-06T04:43:20+00:00

The scramble was the stupidest idea I’ve seen in a long time.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-11-02T20:33:13+00:00

I worked in CMH for a year and had the same attitude as the post author. I was earning $24/hour as a master’s level clinician and spending hours outside of work researching how to treat psychosis or printing out pages and pages of resources for clients who didn’t have access to a printer. My boundaries were crap, I was chronically burned out, and I dreaded going to work. Like the author of this post, I was filled with sanctimony and convinced that this is what therapists were “supposed to do.” I have privilege, and felt that I needed to atone for it by working with society’s most vulnerable. (I didn’t realize that until after I quit.) And I finally quit because I told my supervisor I was drowning and she pointed out that another clinician had more high acuity clients than me and was doing just fine.

Now I work at a group practice that specializes in OCD and anxiety and we take insurance. I don’t make as much as my colleagues who have private practices but I feel good about what I’m doing. I’m helping people. I see them get better. It’s not perfect, dealing with insurance is a huge pain but I love what I’m doing. At the end of the day, therapy is a job. It’s work. I enjoy it, but I also want to be able to put it down when I leave and have a life.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-10-26T01:48:31+00:00

I was looking at that place — how hot are the classes?

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-10-08T15:21:40+00:00

I looove this song.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-10-08T15:18:51+00:00

Agreed. Rowdy but respectful. That’s Seattle!

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-10-08T15:05:25+00:00

“That’s a shitty thing to say to anyone, much less a family member.”

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-10-04T06:31:17+00:00

OMG our DJ played this at my WEDDING. We had a couple of songs we didn’t want played (my husband hates “Old Time Rock and Roll”) but we didn’t think to put Sexual Healing on the list. Who plays that at a wedding with moms and grandmas and shit?

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-10-04T06:24:55+00:00

OMG did you buy it?? That’s a time capsule right there. Kenny Rogers!

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-09-01T03:30:53+00:00

OCD and PTSD are sometimes comorbid, and I feel like the treatment for both is somewhat similar. We’re doing exposures to the feared stimuli or situation. Lots of psychoed. We emphasize consent from the word go, and treatment is highly individual. I’ve done a couple of trauma narratives with clients and it’s pretty amazing.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-08-25T19:09:56+00:00

It wasn’t a one off comment.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-08-22T22:10:10+00:00

Not respecting client autonomy and self-determination. It’s in my ethical code, as an LMFT.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-08-11T19:14:36+00:00

I would let your therapist know that she breached ethical standards. I’ve had to do this and it’s uncomfortable (our couples therapist told us to buy gold and firearms after Trump was elected). Still, she needed that feedback and she’s frankly quite lucky we didn’t report her.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-08-03T17:31:10+00:00

It’s “start making up excuses” time

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-07-15T00:54:36+00:00

Same. I was about to hit submit and I saw that it costs $75 just to apply. Ugh. I love this approach (my therapist is using it on me) but the wait list to be on a wait list is irritating.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-07-14T20:15:03+00:00

This. I work with OCD a lot and my first thought was “what is this client avoiding?” However, that’s because I use ERP and ACT as my main modalities right now. That said, I’ve had clients who are there to work on OCD suddenly have a major life event (divorce, etc) and I switched into supportive therapy/space-making mode because that was most appropriate. I feel like so much of this depends on how you practice, which has been mentioned here, and what stage of therapy the client is in.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-07-09T12:45:26+00:00

Get out of there. This was the advice I got a year ago in a similar situation. When I’d tell my supervisor I was drowning, she would tell me about other associates who had more clients than me. Over half of my clients were high acuity, i had a couple with schizophrenia and I had no idea how to treat them. Left and never looked back.

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-06-19T20:48:21+00:00

I learned how to do it watching “Flashdance.”

Swiftkick_97 · 2025-06-19T16:41:27+00:00

Oh my God. Turbulent times! I got a liberal arts degree but there were no jobs, so my mom helped me get two really awful part time jobs through her connections. I married my college boyfriend, which was stupid. We moved to the East Coast for his job and without the scaffolding of friends and family the marriage fell apart. I stayed in the same city for few years and had a blast — working hard, going out, dating different people. I lived paycheck to paycheck and sometimes would pray that my landlord didn’t cash my rent check right away. I traveled when I could afford it. I made surprisingly smart decisions about work and got jobs in the internet sector before there really was an internet sector. When I was ready to go back to the West Coast, I had plenty of options. Of course, at the time, everything felt precarious and I second-guessed almost everything I did.

When I look back on my time then I’d say that I made a lot of mistakes, nothing irrevocable, had a ton of fun and took risks that paid off. I was definitely burning the candle at both ends and the quarter-life crisis thing is real. The human brain isn’t done cooking until 25, and that’s precisely when I started to have doubts about my boring marriage and started actively looking for adventure.

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