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Posted 5/19/2014 6:31 AM (GMT 0)
I was telling her something and I it came out that I always eat cookie ice cream, like this, ...(piture) but in a cone (?) and I have been doing it for three years and I don't wnt to eat anything diffeerent. And she told me to go and ask something different, and when I was there I was likee oohh no... and I couldn't, I asked cookie ice cream and it was delicious. I haven't told her that I didn't do what she said. I'm not going to tell her.

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Posted 5/19/2014 4:21 PM (GMT 0)
Hi WM.,

Is there a reason, that you know, behind your psychologist wanting you to order a different flavor of ice cream?

We all have our favorites and preferences when it comes to our treats...and there is nothing wrong with that...so I must be missing the meaning behind this exercise of her wanting you to make another choice?

Can you give us a bit more info about this? :)

S.C.
Posted 5/19/2014 8:14 PM (GMT 0)
WM,

Instead of changing what kind of ice cream you like - try something different on your pizza or buying a different brand of ice cream.  I see your picture is from B & Js so try another dairy company.

I suspect she is trying to teach you how to live with change by challenging you to try different brands, flavors of products you buy.

Seems like a good exercise.

Good Luck,

Kitt

Posted 5/19/2014 8:52 PM (GMT 0)
I was a bit confused as well.

I agree, -- that I think she's encouraging you to gently stretch your boundaries of comfort. Just a little. Not by making huge changes, but just a tiny one. After all, you can always come back to it.

As someone else who doesn't take to change too well, I understand how you're feeling. I'm very rooted in my ways. I've sometimes been "forced" into a change, for example, at the market when they're out of the one particular brand of something I always get.

I can always come back later and get the brand I usually buy at a later date, but in the meantime, I utilize what's available.

Sincerely I think she's just encouraging you to explore by taking baby steps. It's a very good exercise! :)








M.
Posted 5/19/2014 9:45 PM (GMT 0)
GG, try something different, try a double dipp! lololololo.

We love you girl.

Larry ***
Posted 5/19/2014 10:53 PM (GMT 0)
I really don't like change either...I will do it from time to time, just to get out of the funk Im in. I have a little bit of OCD too. Things can't be out of place on the counter or I get stressed..Stupid I know. I don't like not having control of things either, and that's what makes my anxiety worse most of the time. I don't have control of myself, when anxiety hits.
Posted 5/20/2014 1:27 AM (GMT 0)
WM,

Maybe ask your therapist if there is one thing...your favorite or most comforting thing that you can hang onto. If it is the ice cream that you like, then choose that...

...and make small changes elsewhere....in other areas.

Afterall, we all have our favorite, cherised, go-to comfort items that we need.:)

(I love ice cream too!!)

S.C.
Posted 5/21/2014 5:21 AM (GMT 0)
gg. a double dip is two scoops on a cone.
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