Posted by wittgensteinz on April 17, 2011, at 16:05:36
In reply to Re: Anyone with social anxiety » wittgensteinz, posted by sleepygirl2 on April 16, 2011, at 18:13:31
"it is all my fault, I'm inferior, no one could like me"
Yes... I could have written that about myself.
Also what you said about perfectionism - I live in terror of failing/messing up and each time I do I ruminate over it for ages. It makes life so difficult!While I know my thinking is faulty and I know there is nothing really that makes me unlikeable, it's hard to shift that belief the there's something fundamentally wrong with me. I just can't see how CBT would help change that - isn't it's basis on convincing yourself (training yourself) to think differently about yourself? Restructuring your beliefs? It just seems too superficial to reach those beliefs that are so firm and fixed and deep rooted - welded to the soul, so to speak.
I'm trying the 're-parenting' route. I'm not sure my therapist has succeeded yet. I trust him quite a bit, that's something at least but still ask him at least 2 or 3 times a month "are you sure you don't hate me?".
Witti
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