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Yesterday, there was lots of freakin

• rain,
• pain,
• dark,
• doom,
• disinterest,
• discontent,
• detours,
• distortion, and
• data.

Yes, I experienced and witnessed a lot of freakin freakin!

I don’t mean to

• overgeneralize (come to a general conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence) or
• project (ascribe one’s own feelings, thoughts, or attitudes to others)

… but I wasn’t alone in this.

Do I have proofs about that?

Of course!  For example, I could tell you stories I heard in my therapy office yesterday (if I made sure to protect confidentiality and completely hide identities) where people talked about

• shame,
• jealousy,
• challenges,
• strengths,
• interpersonal issues,
• focusing,
• interrupting,
• choices,
• cognitive distortions including mind-reading,
• the antidote of reality testing,
• taking risks,
• being vulnerable,
• roles and expectations,
• self esteem,
• safety,
• self-confidence,
• compliments,
• fitting in,
• finances,
• isolation,
• venturing forth,
• fear of being alone,
• fear of the new,
• fear of the unknown,
• balancing listening and talking,
• and jealousy.

And that was just in the two groups I freakin facilitated!

Or, I could tell you about a freakin misunderstanding between me and one of the doctors I work with, in a large primary care practice in a major Boston teaching hospital. Here’s an email I sent her, before I left work:

Another misunderstanding! I wasn’t upset. I just sound that way sometimes in email when I want to make sure providers understand my limits.

Let’s talk in person!!! Email sucks!

However, I’d rather show you two photos I took, at the end of the day:

Are you experiencing lots of freakin _____, where you are? (It wouldn’t freakin kill you to tell me, would it?)

To help promote a less freakin Friday, here are two freakin disco tunes I danced to in the 1970s:

(“There But For the Grace of God” by Machine found here on YouTube)

(“Le Freak” by Chic found here on YouTube)

Thanks to freakin everybody — including you, of course! — here and now.

Note: I just re-read this post after publishing it, and I wondered if I might have miscommunicated  (like I did with that doctor).  Therefore, I would like to balance things out, with another photo I took yesterday:

It’s freakin churros with freakin chocolate (among other things) on my freakin desk!