Not sure about you, but if I take a week off, I pay dearly for doing so in the amount of emails that I come back to. If I took 3-4 weeks off, I’d need to know that I get to hit the reset button when I come back.  

It is the best I can do not to laugh in the face of the hiring manager who says during the interview “we have great benefits including two weeks vacation.”

The next boss I meet who’s sympathetic to burnout will be the first.

I worked with a woman who burned out hard in her early 30s. Just got up and walked out of a meeting, went home, packed, and drove to her parents’ house 7 hours away.

Was coming here to say the same. I couldn’t read past that, it was such a glaring error. 

My Sweet Audrina, written by a man—Andrew Neiderman—in the years following Andrews’s death.

“My Sweet Audrina, written by a man—Andrew Neiderman” - No. Neiderman wrote the sequel, but the OG Audrina was written by V.C. Andrews herself.

Slightly off topic, but can anyone who’s read the V.C. Andrews books recall ever noticing a change?

The main problem with VC Andrews stories is that they go on for wwwaaaaay too many books! So the characters you connect with in the first book (and maybe stay with for the second) become extraneous characters who are generally unrecognizable from the original book.

I’m actually the girl in the pic on the cover. I was 9 when I did it. I’m 47 now. I can’t believe people still read it! 

YES. The modern covers ain’t shit—I know the old ones were replaced because the cutouts tore so easily, but they captured the batshit insanity of those books perfectly.

The covers were both design and marketing genius. You could easily pick out all the VC Andrews books on a shelf even if you were standing all the way across the room.  And they really appealed to my child’s need to see the picture behind the cover.

Can we also talk about those paperback covers? Because whoever came up with them is a marketing genius. They were so VERY CREEPY AND PERFECT. Like the pictures hidden behind the cutouts were too spooky for regular supermarket bookshelves. My teen brain was into it.

way to steal an idea from My Favorite Murder. 

People also tend to buy more stuff from grocery stores when they shop online as opposed to in-person

So true.  My therapist is married to a tech entrepreneur.  She has a private practice but also works 4 days a week for the city because of the health benefits and eventual pension.  Go figure. 

I hear you!  Often, if you google “low cost therapy” + your city / town, you can find options that cost less, or are willing to use a sliding scale.  Another option for lower cost therapy would be to contact a university program, and see a therapist who is earning their hours pre-graduation.  It can be much cheaper,…

Yeah okay the last paragraph is pretty damn true.

Hello. I’m a therapist who takes insurance (technically my agency bills insurance and pays me a salary, but still). There’s argument to be made that taking insurance negatively affects clients, as well. To bill insurance, we’re locked into a very rigid model of what we can do, when, for how long, etc. For most…

It’s not only that insurance companies are difficult to work with, it’s that often they don’t pay therapists much. Some companies pay as little as 1/4 the non-insurance rate. So in addition to the hassle of fighting to get payment back from insurance companies (and payment delays are common, sometimes as long as 6…