Stress bucket
May. 27th, 2025 06:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistI introduced my counselor to the "stress bucket" metaphor today.
Some of you may remember it was a Gary thing. I described it here:
The stress bucket is a metaphor about a bucket with a little hole in the bottom. Stress fills up the bucket. The little hole gradually empties it. We learned about what things are good for emptying a dog's stress bucket quicker and also how long the effects of an overflowing stress bucket can hang around.
It immediately made sense to me as someone with chronic anxiety, so while we carried on using it about Gary (it was always so useful), I apply it to myself too. And when my counselor was getting tangled in some other metaphors that reminded me of this, I told it to her. She seemed to really like it and extending the metaphor was useful for us during the whole conversation.
My good little dog, still helping out my brain even now.
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Date: 2025-05-27 06:04 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2025-05-28 03:54 pm (UTC)You should, I'd love to read it. :)
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Date: 2025-05-27 08:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2025-05-28 03:55 pm (UTC)Aw I'm so glad it's useful! Yeah, so much of why I managed to finish my degree on the second try was how much better I'd gotten at managing stress.
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Date: 2025-05-27 09:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2025-05-28 03:55 pm (UTC)I'm glad it's useful! That's awesome to hear.
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Date: 2025-05-28 08:55 pm (UTC)Ahhhhh.
They live forever in our hearts.
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Date: 2025-05-29 01:11 pm (UTC)He's still such a presence; I think about him every day.