@Mazarita wrote::
@Faith-and-Hope, speaking as someone who has always been something of a loner, your boat sounds like an ark! Awesome to hear the forum is helping keep you balanced on the waters.
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Ha ! Made me laugh out loud with that one @Mazarita 😊
When I went to have breakfast with my Dad, D3 roiled over and went back to sleep instead of getting ready for school, driving me crazy , so I am back here with you, calming myself down and letting her get on with being late again !!
@Former-Member, when you are talking about wearing masks, have you heard of "sub-personalities" ? It's a psychological school of thought, and I relate to it very well. You might find it helpful .....
"A subpersonality is, in transpersonal psychology, a personality mode that kicks in (appears on a temporary basis) to allow a person to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations." - Wikipedia
Basically it centres in the idea that our personalities are multi-faceted (like gemstones 😊) made up of a series of sub-personalities that, if we stop and think about it carefully, we can begin to identify within ourselves ...... some of their names are "comedienne", "inner-critic", "peacemaker", "warrior", "princess", ..... and many more. Each of us ha an "inner child" according to this psychological model, who developed during our childhood. That sub-personality has the world view of the child we were, and harbours the fears, traumas, joy, inhibition, etc of that state. While our sub-personalities have influence over our behaviour and perspective in any given moment, some are more dominant than others, and some are panic-merchants who run to protect our "inner child" from pain or perceived threats, whether real or imagined .....
We also have a dominant sub-personality who operates as our CEO a lot of the time, and it is interesting to work out who she is, what defines her (or him) and therefore us.
It's an interesting field of study, and it means that we are multi-dimensional, and not only allowed to be, but it is a normal, healthy state of affairs to have an "inner family" of sub-personalities, and the way all the different personalities and life experiences represented here on the forums help each other, our inner family can work the same way ...... our peacemaker can help calm our inner critic down, and our warrior can defend our inner child, our comedienne can help temper our warrior if she is too fiesty ......
I hope this helps, and doesn't just confuse you ......
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