Mine would have been instructions on how to get into my password manager and financial accounts and stuff and basics to keep my media server going long enough to get whatever they want off of it.
You dropped this 👑.
But it really should be written down already…
Buses don’t give 30 minute warnings like crazed Life Coaches do.
Yeah I keep meaning to but can’t think of a good place to put it where it will be found but my housemates wouldn’t.
There must have been so much clapping
Stood up, turned around, and–wouldnt you know it–5 dollars.
And then everybody clapped.
Not exactly this MO, but Sim9nton therapy, a visualisation technique/therapy for cancer patients has a death visualisation that kinda does this. And yeah, at the end it’s family and loved ones.
Then everyone cheered and carried the therapist out on their shoulders.
Yeah, that’s not how therapy works.
not to be rude, but who are you to say? just some random dude on the internet?
I once did a similar exercise, and found it very helpful with improving a couple family relationships. so uhh maybe it does help a bit? there’s really not nearly enough information to make that judgment
the story has obviously been embellished or presentation changed for the format, but the core remains
Yeah I’m pretty sure if my therapist tried this he’d get in a lot of trouble after I calm down from whatever insane panic attack this would induce in me.
also that 45min the little exercise cost is like $400 for them to do nothing
Take some LSD. It’ll make everything seem unimportant for a while, but then reality comes back into focus. You realize you still have to go to work, appointments still need to be kept and you still have to get along with people you don’t like. Dying in 30 minutes is very different from living for another 50 years.
I can’t remember the show, but in the skit the airplane is about to crash.
Everyone is on their phone telling people how much they love them.
Except the one guy who is cursing out his boss.
“My loved ones know I love them, and calling them now will hurt them. I want this guy to know how much I hate him.”
Gilly and Keeves, one of Shane Gillis’ shows.
Thanks. I’ll look them up.
That’s awesome.
Honestly if I were really dying so soon and I knew it ahead of time and I knew for sure my note would be seen by the right people (and only the right people) – I’d start writing down usernames and passwords to important financial stuff, describing in great detail where I keep certain documents, keys, etc. Then I’d dive into a list of all the steps needed to care for my pets. And maybe, time permitting, after all that, I’d jot down my love yous and thank yous.
So I feel like this would just be an attempt by my therapist to scam me or something.
My father had a terminal illness. All the notes he wrote with instructions and passwords made everything so much easier.
I thought I knew everything that needed to be done beforehand, but was surprised as how much I needed to reference those documents.
Hi, it’s me your…wife? Anyways, bad news, Doc just called and you’re for the chop. It’s curtains for you, lol. Email me all your financial usernames and passwords quick sharp. Before it’s too late!! You don’t want me and the kid(s?) to starve, do you?
I don’t need to know about the pets and shit, send that crap to your mother or any surviving parent or family member.Cheers.
PS:
Oh, yeah, love you etc. btw I’ll pm you my email.PPS:
Also it’s not my usual email though. DON’T SEND ANYTHING TO THAT ONE, it’s been compromised by…the russians? I set up another as soon as the doc called.
Smell you later, tator.
It’s a good point, but in the real world where you have to go on living, you’re gonna have to deal with some of those horrible people every day, in order to achieve the things you want in the trajectory of your life. They only don’t matter if you’re abandoning all that. Should you take it less to heart? Probably. But you do need to figure out how to work through them.
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You should start doing this todayHey, I absolutely hear you: I’m an ‘old fart’ with nary a regret; I’ve told many to go fuck themselves, but I was also far too patient with far too many who should have been told.
I’m no longer as patient is all.
I don’t know half of you as well as I should like, and I like half of you as well as you deserve
I love that quote. It sounds nice, then like an insult, but is actually still nice, in a blunt old man way lol
I definitely would have done this. If some asshole yelled at me that I have 30 minutes left, I would have flipped him the bird and walked away.
Yeah, what are you going to do when you go into work tomorrow and your boss starts demanding you to do something that doesn’t make sense? Just pretend you’re dead?
So deal with those people when you have to deal with them and forget about them afterwards. Make a plan to get them out of your life.
Unless you’re in prison or trapped in North Korea (or something similar to that), there’s always some way out. It may take a long time but you’ll feel better if you’re working toward a goal.
The mental health issues leaving my body meme.jpg
When I got the part about the therapist saying why didn’t they write a letter to their boss? I was like this was going to be a peak LinkedIn Lunactic post.
Therapist “Why didn’t you write to your boss? Your boss has been there you forty hours a week! They cared for you. They allowed you to take time off to see your baby. They cared fo you.”
This is pretty profound. And good therapy.
Except it isn’t therapy. It’s made up, and it’s just as apocryphal as every other slow-clap life lesson meme text out there. I mean, if you like this one, great…but there’s a ton of this shit out there.
This is why therapy and things like CBT don’t work for everyone. If you’re able to even momentarily trick yourself into believing something like this then sure you could gain some insight, but if you’re unmoved at the absurdity of sitting in a comfy chair in a safe office with your trusted therapist and can’t make believe you’ll be dead in 30 minutes then you’re SOL.
These kinds of posts frustrate me by attempting wisdom through a feel good, one size fits all approach to mental health.
Which is sad, because therapists don’t have a single technique they apply. And these posts scare away people from seeking care or seeking more intense care.
If CBT doesn’t work, maybe DBT needs to be investigated. Or maybe accelerated resolution therapy, or new emotion regulation skills. It’s a huge ass profession because our brains are really fucking complicated.
Therapist demands an essay by having me panic write for most of the session? Either they’re a genius or a con man.
This is no therapy but it does feel like some Taoist philosophy like “a bowl is what’s not there”.
