Adventures in Therapy

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Rice Sommers
- 5/28/2022 7:01pm

So a few days ago, my new friend @Terra Diggs told me about the school therapist/therapy dog, Doctor Cornelia. I've been afraid to leave my room on account of the fact that I still haven't remembered more than one thing since getting here about 5 days ago. When we had lunch together yesterday, Terra left me an envelope with the contact information of the therapy office, as well as some anti gravity gum for me to try. Super excited for that one. Anyways, I'm going to write to the therapy office and try to get Dr C to meet me in my room tomorrow.





Rice Sommers
- 5/28/2022 7:59pm

This is what I sent to Dr. Cornelia:

Dear Dr. Cornelia,
I know you talked to @Terra Diggs , and I was wondering if you could come to my room later today so we could talk.
Thanks
Rice Sommers

This is what she sent back:

Dear Rice,
Sure! I'd love to come and bark with you about whatever you need.
Dr. Cornelia
Dog/therapist





Rice Sommers
- 5/29/2022 8:09am

So, Dr Cornelia came to my room today, and we had a very nice "conversation"(I guess she just read my thoughts). I showed her what happened when I ate the cookies, and she said that it "felt like a memory", whatever that means. She said that I probably experienced something traumatic to cause memory loss, and that because I already seem to be gaining memories back, my actual brin is probably fine. She also said that I need to try to get out of my room, and that she was going to have me do something she called exposure therapy to help with that. Basically I have to do small things, so I can work my way up to going to classes. The list is, from easiest to hardest:

leave my door open and be as far/close to the doorway as I want
leave my door open and stay in front of the doorway
stand right outside my room with the door open
stand right outside my room with the door closed
stand in front of Terra's room
go into Terra's room
go around the rest of the hallway
explore the rest of the dorm building
go to dining hall
go outside right in front of dorm building

She said that I can add more to the list later.

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