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I thought I'd start a discussion where we can check in with members and use this space to keep in contact. It's a space to be able to say how you really feel and it's a space for the good, the bad and the ugly moments in our lives.
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TeejSenior Contributor
So do you @Sans911. Sometimes it’s so hard to work on the things ingrained and foreign to us. Some of the things I struggle with immensely you can do so easily on autopilot. I’m guessing there are somethings that I do without thinking that you struggle with too.
Ive been in the background reading your and @Zoe7 posts and following trying to learn from both of you about getting back out there. It’s helping me more than you know.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
From what I understand @Sans911, the start of changing a behaviour is realising it in hindsight, usually when someone else has pointed it out to you, which is what I am hearing you say I think. Its the same process we go through when we are younger, and our support people (parents, friends, guardians, whoever) point things out to us ..... trauma can cause us to go back to earlier patterns and need to move forward from that place again .... but it is a pattern or reaction that is a normal human response.
Gradually the impulse to recognise either in the moment, or soon after, what we are doing or have done, and do a double-back with appologies and wanting to fix it is part of the process of starting to catch it and modify the behaviour.
I am sorry you are feeling so sad about it tonight .... I am hearing steps of progress that perhaps you are not recognising or feeling at this time, and that is when a sense of hopelessness tends to flood in ....
Your feelings are legitimate, and they matter, because you matter .... and nobody has it perfect .... there is no such thing as perfect .... we are all on a growth spectrum, and there are so many things that influence that ....
Take courage ..... imperfections are considered weaknesses under some circumstances, but the exact same things present as strengths under others. Vulnerability is both necessary and a strength ..... it just feels really sucky sometimes.
💜💓
@Teej....
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Sans911Senior Contributor
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
G'night ....
@Sans911 @Teej .....
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TeejSenior Contributor
I think I’ve just started taking those really vulnerable shaky steps with my support team and am asking for help to work things I know I need to but feel ashamed about. It’s actually feeling a little empowering at times, and other times I retreat in my shell from the shame but it feels like a step forwards. Maybe just talking about it with your supports might help to find the cues and times it’s likely to happen. @Sans911.
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Faith-and-HopeSenior Contributor
Have had an in-law family walk all over my tenderness @Sans911.... my fierce baby dragons have taught me how to push back .... and my mr. did too in earlier days when he was in a different state...... I have more of a steely side now when it is needed .....
Hugzzzzz💤
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TeejSenior Contributor
Ps ive been asking for my psychologist/psychiatrist to get into my head and ask lots of questions so I can break it down and start to understand it better. It might not help you but for me it helps to understand my behaviours more fully so I can try to change them. I need to get it though. If they tell me dbt style I won’t learn @Sans911. I have to understand really well my patterns and behaviours to change them and then it takes me ages to change (someone mentioned today that I’m glacially slow with this and I am.
I hope this helps for you to have some kindness and patience with yourself. 🤗💜
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TeejSenior Contributor
@Faith-and-Hope 💜🤗
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TeejSenior Contributor
@Sans911 I took some sleeping meds a while ago and they are kicking in. I might get some shut eye while I can. Thinking of you and hoping you can find some peace with this. I’ll let you know what happens tomorrow....if I find my big girl pants on to go to the meeting or not. 😳:face_with_rolling_eyes:😊💜🤗
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Sans911Senior Contributor
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