Posted by BeardedLady on November 13, 2002, at 12:22:20
In reply to Re: Sorry :( » BeardedLady, posted by Dinah on November 13, 2002, at 9:00:28
> I don't see it as letting your friend down so much as recognizing your limitations. And once you've forgiven yourself, you may find it a bit easier to sleep without all that pressure on you.Yeah. I'm not a person who gives up. And now I feel like she understands and won't fault me for it and wants to cut me slack, but I would rather just ditch all the projects, and I wound up keeping one because I made it manageable. But I'm worried that it's still here, even though it's manageable.
> It sounds, under the circumstances, as if your daughter asking about siblings could also be a reminder of your grief.Maybe.
> May I ask you if you are significantly smarter than your therapist, and able to bamboozle him/her a bit with your intelligence?No. He's really a genius. And my friend I'm doing the work for? She started seeing him last week. She's really smart too. He told me how so different our personalities are that, because she organized the job in her own way, it became uncomfortable and unmanageable for me, because the emphasis was on what she likes about the project.
>Is it at all possible you are dancing around things you need to work on? A not-so-uncommon phenomenon among the very intelligent. Again, please forgive my intrusion. It's just that you mention how your therapist assures you that you are functioning on a very high level, while I hear some pain that perhaps is not fully accounted for by biochemical causes, and that could be adding to your sleep difficulties.
Lack of honesty on my part will do nothing but hinder my progress. I think we're digging into everything, including the first three minutes of sex without a condom the day before I ovulated, which immediately made me worry about being pregnant. Now the stress from the worry and lack of sleep will make my period late, I'll think I'm pregnant, and I'll stress out a lot more. To make matters worse, I won't know til next Thursday.
> By the way, has your husband tried Breathe Right strips? (My husband tells me they work well on my snoring).
I have a package of them. I don't think he's tried yet.
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> Hope I haven't offended.How could you have?
Thanks.
Beardy
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