Posted by galkeepinon on September 10, 2003, at 17:09:52
In reply to Re: Feelings tonight » galkeepinon, posted by Poet on September 10, 2003, at 11:01:25
Hi Poet, thank you for your support, I really appreciate it! That statement that friend made just really stuck in my mind. I need to let it go. I am beginning to understand that being self-centered is different than thinking the whole world revolves around you. (narcissist?)
My psychiatrist is sorta acting as my therapist right now and wants me to journal until our next appt. in a month. I will take what you have wrote here and write about it. Thank you so much.
I like the destroy part, I wish it were that easy to do it in my mind. Just let all that crap go that causes me pain and fear. Your experience has helped a great deal.
Thank you.
> Galkeepinon,
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> I just discovered this site on Monday, and think it is fantastic. It is absolutely not self centered to ask for help when you are feeling low.
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> If there is no one you feel you can talk to, my therapist had me write down all the things that I considered failures in my life (and there were many), seal the list in an envelope and give it to her. We will destroy it together when (make that if)I am done with therapy.
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> Did it erase all my negative thoughts about myself- no, did it make me realize I am not the complete and total failure I believed I was- yes.
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> A year later, I am still working through the major "failures" but I am not the complete failure that I thought I was when I started seeing her.
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> It can't hurt to try writing it all down. Don't mull over it, give it somebody you trust or just plain burn or shred it immediately.
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> Hang in there.
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> Poet
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