Posted by baseball55 on January 18, 2014, at 20:19:47
In reply to Re: My emotions are exhausting me... » SLS, posted by sleepygirl2 on January 18, 2014, at 12:07:14
I've found DBT therapy, mindfulness meditation and other such practices, helpful in getting enough control to keep my emotions from exhausting me. Not completely, but it's definitely better than it used to be.
OTOH, I was at dinner with my husband and daughter and her boyfriend and kind of lost control -- reacted in a very tense and hostile way to a minor provocation. What was so upsetting about it, was that I wasn't aware I was doing this. It was only when my husband got angry and my daughter confirmed that I was out of bounds, that I could even acknowledge this might be true. But I didn't feel the way I was acting. I was out of touch with my feelings.
It really scared me. I've been in therapy for several years and hoped I had gotten over this.
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