rain, rain go away

The weather is really getting me down. I mean, seriously, it has been raining for almost three weeks straight and I'm starting to feel depressed. The wet, gloomy, sadness is overwhelming. While I do love a good thunderstorm with lightning and rain falling in sheets against the glass windows, I'm ready for some sunny skies. It doesn't help that I don't feel that great physically and work is getting the cottage 1 team down. We have our work with the young guys down to a science almost. And, I'd like to think we're good at what we do. We do it a lot. Over and over in fact, since our patients are only with us for two weeks. That's right...14 days of treatment to save lives and get things turned around. We've recently been told that we cannot do some of our groups, our theme groups. Our really cool groups that we've developed especially for the patients we work with. Like the music group. And the hot seat. And the shame group. My boss even sat in group with me today. I guess to make sure that I didn't break the new rule. It's just a bummer since therapy calls for creative ways of getting into people's minds and feelings and backgrounds. And we're not supposed to talk about feelings either since feelings are "old school." Yeah, so I'm not sure what I'm supposed to do with my patients now since I'm not supposed to do good therapy or talk about feelings. I guess we'll talk about the rainy weather. Don't cry about it though. Not allowed.