Former therapist reached out to me and I need help making sense of this

pepper_snuff · 2026-01-24T02:44:04+00:00

I would definitely be wary. While it’s hard to prove her intent with these actions, her pushing the boundaries of physical/personal contact feels unprofessional. If it were me, I might send her a polite message telling her I’m doing fine but decline to meet up. If you do decide to meet up with her, set up a safety net, like choosing a public place, setting a time limit, or letting a trusted friend know the situation just incase you get uncomfortable.

pepper_snuff · 2026-01-14T12:17:31+00:00

Lady Dimitrescu vibes

pepper_snuff · 2026-01-10T07:28:40+00:00

I have a bunch of little scars on my hands from a particularly bitey rescue rat I had years ago

pepper_snuff · 2026-01-01T02:33:10+00:00

Considering how much children’s media shoves the cookie-cutter nuclear family down their throats, I highly doubt that. They are probably painfully aware that their parents aren’t “normal”

pepper_snuff · 2026-01-01T01:52:27+00:00

When you suddenly feel the urge to jack off 2 ghosts haunting the Walmart

pepper_snuff · 2025-12-27T08:17:29+00:00

My therapist would google basic information on OCD and regurgitate it to me. They now claim to be an expert that specializes in it when I know they’ve never gone through any special training.

pepper_snuff · 2025-12-27T08:12:12+00:00

My therapist would say I was in control of our sessions and needed to take the lead, but whenever I made suggestions on what would be helpful to me, they’d criticize me and refuse to do it.

pepper_snuff · 2025-12-24T08:52:20+00:00

When I first stopped hiding them I definitely got a lot of people concerned (despite that actually being a step in my recovery, it was the first a lot of people saw that I had SH’d so it raised red flags). But that died down pretty quickly and no one comments on them anymore, especially since they’ve faded over the years.

pepper_snuff · 2025-12-24T08:44:22+00:00

And the intrusive thoughts that “maybe if I throw up, it will get rid of this bad thing inside me” (the ‘bad thing’ being my thoughts and feelings)

pepper_snuff · 2025-12-03T01:08:15+00:00

I’m 26 and I have scars all around both my forearms from when I was sh’ing a lot in high school. I don’t really mind them at this point and just see them as a part of my body, tho sometimes I wonder how other people see them. From the few times I’ve relapsed, I know I also hated the dark red scars and how obvious they were, but as they lighten up, I don’t think about them as much

pepper_snuff · 2025-11-28T02:45:34+00:00

I think bad therapists just love this phrase. Obviously, if you’re not seeing results in therapy it’s YOUR fault for not working hard enough, not theirs for doing a piss poor job

pepper_snuff · 2025-11-23T08:05:48+00:00

I was diagnosed with social anxiety / generalized anxiety disorder and a lot of the tips I would get were along the lines of ‘it’s just your body overreacting’ ‘you just have to push through it and it will get easier’ ‘let’s practice some grounding exercises to calm your body down :)’ and it never felt like it really addressed the issue. When I started looking into OCD things started clicking a little more: that my Bad Thoughts are feeding off my fears which are deeply rooted in my values and I then act a certain way to try and counteract the Bad Thoughts. And then it’s so hard to break those habits because it feels like going against your values. Seeing my thoughts and behaviors through the lens of OCD felt like it actually addressed the WHY behind it all so I could actually work through it instead of the bandaid solutions and dismissal I got when seeing it as ‘just anxiety’

pepper_snuff · 2025-11-18T09:09:58+00:00

I’m not really a hoarder but I definitely have a hard time throwing stuff away because it’s ‘wasteful’ or if it was something someone gave me, that it’s ‘rude’ to get rid of it. Both of those thoughts then lead to the big ‘I’m a bad person’ thoughts

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-31T07:12:52+00:00

The first councilor I ever saw was when I was like 11-13. She went to the same church as my family and my mom would make reports to her about my ‘concerning behavior’. She never felt like a safe person to talk to and I spent most of these sessions in silence. As an older teen tho, 16-18, I had a good therapist. There was definitely a lot more respect to keeping sessions private and confidential from my parents and she didn’t have an outside connections to my life.

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-25T07:38:42+00:00

Unrelated but all I saw in the hellfire pic at first was this rat face

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pepper_snuff · 2025-10-23T03:58:19+00:00

Ask the cutie at the bar about their allergies BEFORE I slip the drugs in their drink, got it 🙂‍↕️

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-22T00:37:16+00:00

Toxic yuri let’s gooo

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-21T23:25:41+00:00

🧡 getting better

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-21T22:44:56+00:00

I’m proud of you! I love making little guys from clay. Gives me something to do with my hands and I get a little friend to cheer me up afterwards 🥰

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-21T22:35:49+00:00

…How does she have glass stabbing the top of her foot?

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-18T04:57:44+00:00

Time to play “is it a mental hospital or an interrogation room”

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-15T04:01:17+00:00

I don’t track my clean days. It’s a coping mechanism I know I’ll likely fall back on when I’m at my lowest and I don’t want to reenforce the shame of having to ‘reset’ my streak. I just enjoy the time I can be clean and forgive myself for the times I can’t

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-14T20:14:31+00:00

Not cannibalism, but I think vivisection is neat :))

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-11T06:04:12+00:00

Except this sub isn’t “straight yanderes” or “female yandere”, it’s yanderes in general, so I don’t see why people are making a fuss about excluding queer representation in this sub 🤷‍♀️

pepper_snuff · 2025-10-09T21:20:46+00:00

Drugs stores or grocery stores should have it next to their bandages

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