Why I Won't be Seeing a Therapist About My Watch Obsession
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- Wearing my Seiko SLA055 on the orange Tropic, I discuss my 4th rebuy of the Citizen NB6004-83E and explain why encounters with therapy in the 80s persuaded me not to seek therapy for my watch obsession.
Doesn’t sound like watch addiction, more like watch therapy. It is your passion. A love. It is not hurting anyone. That sounds like a great outlet. Love your content.
Putting pics while you are talking is very valuable
I think this is more of an unedited podcast format. It's honest and works well for it.
Though I agree with you. Perhaps holding up a tablet with the image of the watch mentioned would work.
I had good results in solo marriage counseling. I went in with books and book knowledge, which immediately structured the sessions around my thinking, my questions, my issues, etc.. And it even turned out that wifey was the problem, as a rigid boundary person. That was the nut I could not crack on my own. It has made all the difference.
Also- I recommend, like myself, one say that they are willing to commit to about a year of therapy when asked.
Therapy was tremendously helpful for me. I was able to walk away from a toxic job that I was in for 19 years. I now have the best job I’ve ever had. I’m healing through all kinds of messed up things that happened in my youth and feeling more comfortable being me. Dealing with emotions head on has made me a stronger and better man.
I think I filled my entire leftist bingo card with your post thanks man 😊
Addicted to the purchase!!
Hey Jeffrey as long as you have been teaching I have been seeing clients for 45 years. I am a licensed clinical psychologist. I do understand your frustration and feelings about therapy and during that period of time, things were at times faddish. I am a trauma therapist and have devoted a good portion of my life helping clients heal from their traumas. Like with many other fields there are excellent and poor therapists. For me the biggest compliment is when an old client who saw me in the past wants to come back and work through a new issue/ conflict they are experiencing and remembered the earliest we did and feels enough trust to return for me to help them once again. Every profession has its positives and negatives. I love what I do and I try my very best to reach my clients the tools they need to help them navigate life so they can feel whole and don't need me again. I do understand your frustrations with therapy. On a lighter side I took have a watch addiction and I will be going tomorrow to Chicago for Windup. I already know what I am getting. Hang in there brother. Regards, Stan
I have no doubt there are great therapists out there. You sound like one of them. Best.
I did the unthinkable Jeff, I listed my entire watch collection on ebay minus my Omega Seamaster 300 Professional and a Seiko SPB453. I now only own 2 watches and I have never felt more free. We will see how long this lasts, but the goal is to save up for a submariner and not allow myself to get distracted.
The two you have sounds like freedom to me. Stop there.
Great story once again Jeff. That orange tropic on the 055 is what originally drew me to your channel. I worked as a night auditor at a swanky Squaw Valley resort and would often check in Joe Morgan, what a great guy. He found out I was a big SF Giants fan and left me a signed box of Wheaties with him on the front from the eighties with a personal note that he appreciated my work getting his condo ready for him before he arrived, such class. “Contagion of Desire” is a great watch book title.
Hey McMahon! I miss your videos, I hope you are well.
I’m a never seller, buy once buy right kinda guy so I can’t fathom what it feels like to buy the same watch 3 or 4 times. 😆
McMahon, please keep in mind that therapy today is not like what therapy was in the 1980s. Psychotherapists now realize that guys have more emotions than just anger, and understanding unhelpful thoughts and striking them down doesn’t have to involve imagining yourself in woo-woo land. You’re not a small talk person, you like deep, meaningful conversations. I don’t think this watch addiction is necessarily the underlying problem, I think it might be filling more of a dopamine deficiency. I’d recommend trying a new hobby. Ideally, something that involves the hands, like calligraphy.
I am a watch obsessive too, but I am very conservative in my actual purchases. I like to mull over purchases for a long time weighing the pros and cons and cons and learning about the technology. I am particularly focused on Casio and Citizen . I am starting to open up my horizons and look at other EDC: knives, flashlights and pens. By the way I deal with ODC for decades. Finally, I do think there is a limit on collecting things, law of diminishing returns. It is imperative to use our time on earth wisely because the are opportunity costs to everything. By focusing on one thing what are missing out on.
hahaha,the struggle real! I thought you stopped at 5 🤣
If you’re not hurting yourself or your family financially, you don’t need therapy. Embrace the watch fanaticism, it will make you stronger in the end.
Just repurchased the Damasko Dsub01 now the Dsub10 for the third time. It was very therapeutic.
Can you embrace having a 5 watch core collection with 1 rotating spot? That 1 spot will be a one in and one out. That way having 6 at one isn’t so stressful.
5 minutes into the video and I forgot all about the citizen watch 😂. Got sucked into all the wonderful stories. Always love hearing your stories man.
I feel your pain Jeff. I own a number of fine watches & i'm contented. I rotate regularly & that's the key to winning the battle.
You said it. Fadish consumer therapy. All those anguished well gazing at their navals. Though I'm sure there's a genuine need for some.
If we're providing for our families, a mild case of watch induced financial dissolution isn't perhaps so bad. Though I do regret the time and mental energy I waste on it.
I'm still down at seven watches. However, my sapphire modded SRPE93 Turtle is leaving, and I have the SPB237 Willard incoming to partner my SPB297 62Mas reissue 😏
I need to see one potentially 🤣
Hey Jeff. Great vid. I ask you this - if you had spent ALL the time you spent on watches over the last 20 years on self-improvement, would you actually be any happier? Could it be that "watch happiness" and "life happiness" are similarly out of/within reach? After all, "watch happiness" is a much easier concept to realize, and yet it continues to evade so many of us. Being happy with what you have is difficult. Thanks for the thought provocation. Big love from Boston
@@DimePieceTimepiece you could be right. Happiness level is baked in.
6 watches...those are rookie numbers son!! 😁
you've definitely got the wrists for a diver!
Embrace the slab !!😅
Hey McMahon, hope you are good, missing our chats lately.
Face it McMahon, you're a Seiko Dude!
*you're
@@folksurvivallol .. so that annoys you, too?
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“Your” - possessive pronoun
Thanks for sharing (I believe that's what they say in other famous group therapy circles....). Please, point me to the spanish watch webshop, thanks. Happy to be here
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Most things you come out with make total sense to me. The re-buy is not one of those things. Surely the reasons you might sell a watch are the same reasons not to re-buy it?
I'm firmly in camp no re-buy 😂
A therapist will not know what the heck you're talking about Jeff. They just might have you instatutionalized. You shouldn't talk about watch club with anyone who isn't in watch club. It's the first rule. C'mon man get your ship under control.
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anger therapy, hitting pillows and such, is not widely accepted any longer. It teaches you that hitting things is how you deal with your stress and you could decide pillows don't float your boat anymore. And then we have a new problem. ie domestic violence. good thing you ditched the quack.
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Where are you señor
So what are the 6 watches in the collection right now?