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3 (last one i swear hsdvhs) what does therapy do for patton? does it change how he uses his cg headspace? like does he end up having to act as a cg less frequently, or does he just learn other coping strategies along with it? does logan’s role change as a result of this? -🌙

this one is a bit trickier i think , it i think might depend how i build this as it becomes part of the timeline - i naturally start to think of concepts and ideas as they happen in real time in the au, eg. i only thought of this asthma attack concept last night, a day before it happens in the ic blog timeline. but i have this so far:

how therapy helps patton

therapy helps patton to live for himself. thats the headline for it - patton learns it is not selfish to do things for himself, to live for himself

theres a lot of small ways that dr picani helps him learn this, theres a lot of small affirmations, a lot of exercises such as patton is instructed to take fifteen minutes on his own in the middle of the day to just drink tea and sit in the garden and meditate by himself

there is also pattons self-care week which i just love in general - ive mentioned it briefly on the babyvirge blog and will eventually make it into a bigger concept or even a fic, but essentially it is a week wher patton has to do something new for himself everyday, and it has to be something he has alwasy wanted to do

so he does smal things at first like walk a different route because it goes past a nice tree even if it takes longer to walk there, and he plants a certain vegetable that only he likes to eat, but it builds up to him driving to a nature reserve and spending a day on his own in nature, and also leads to him growing his beard regardless of how he is worried everyone might react

in terms of his caregiving:

it doesnt really change his way of caregiving, it doesnt change how often he IS a caregiver (because as previously established, patton is actually legally vee’s carer due to her disability, and he was caring for her in a similar way before the regression was ever revealed) - but what it does do is ensure patton isn’t using the headspace as a way of dissociating

it was described in labd in the last chapter how when patton was crying in the hallway but was interuupted by hearing roman call him in to look after vee - as soon as pat started taking care of vee his emotions became blurry and he felt almost dizzy. that was him dissociating from his emotions and using his cg space as an escape from reality

i honestly dont know how dr picani treats pattons dissociation, but once they have addressed it and patton learns grounding techniques and stuff, i think his cgspace will become even more healthy!

and also: he tends to miss things atm. like accidentally calling roman baby and not registering romans discomfort, and not knowing what is making vee upset because he is so busy cooing at her. and that i think is because patton is sometimes a little out of it, dissociated, and not able to notice his environment very well iin his cg space. this will change when he becomes more grounded - and honestly, it might even make him a better papa because of this

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Heyyy, we know it's been a while, we were quite busy but we are so excited to be back ! It is a pleasure to go back to being active on social media after we took a break from it, taking care of ourselves and making sure we are becoming the best version of ourselves.

Hélène is still drawing and she spends more time on it than ever because we are thinking about starting our own shop ! As some of you may know we are a DID system and we are slowly realizing that are disability will probably prevent us from holding a conventional job down the line, which put a lot of stress upon us.

We love arts and we really believe that owning a smal business could both heal our soul and helps us to get an income !

As of now, we think about selling stickers, prints, but also perlers and perhaps even edit Claire's poetry ! There is still a long way to go but we are very hopeful and more than very excited about this project and i personally can't wait to see it take shape, little by little.

If you are interested in all of that and want to follow us through this creative journey, you can follow us for more !

With love, -Mathieu