Covid, Electoral Disfunction , Small Dog Culture, and Black Friday, is there a Psychologist in the building?

[Tikirob]

My worst fear day to day is no more days to be fearful. After that it’s rotten dreams. When I realize that in a best case scenario I may just be a guy with a mental illness who gets by ok and that’s “Okay” I start looking at the world around me, covid, political chaos, and then I take a walk to get vitamin D and reaffirm that there is air on the earths atmosphere. Then when I finally am just in a groove I see a dog in a persons lap seated in an outside dining room and they are both eating off the same plate, I see this twice in one day, after seeing two women baby feeding and talking a dog at a Mexican restaurant yesterday and it frightens me, all of it, I start feigning to call a psychologist, I don’t want a drink, a toke, or a micro dose, I want a dial a shrink, 1 dollar a minute, 5 dollar minute fine, a rational stranger is the new cold water in the face.

I don’t have anything against dogs, or people who talk to animals, there are two cats that know all my shortcomings, but germs are very much in the news, and there seems there are no boundaries for politics anymore, and just the same there is a temptation to buy a Roku because it is so dirt cheap and I’m thinking maybe a tv will keep my mind off the phone, it’s with that last thought I know I am lost - not having an anchor in any plane of existence is too much for a person with anxiety to shrug off, once again I just need a grounding conversation with a psychologist.

So last week I spent most of the week calling out to metal health clinics, none of which have a person who picks up the phone 90 out of a hundred say leave a message and we’ll get back to you in 48 hours, the other 10 percent say we only respond to emails left on our website ( you know the website that provided you with the number to call the message that is telling you to email the website).

So I got thinking, what if psychologist had there own Black Friday? A day where people could call and they would pick up and offer services for a lesser price, where when I called to get a deal they would ask me “what’s wrong with you?” I could tell them, ‘I don’t feel optimal, I’m not living the dream, I want to be able to eat buffalo wings at a restaurant with my dog on my lap during covid and enjoy myself while not caring about politics, and then I want to buy the biggest TV and say goodbye to fresh air, could you help?”