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Thanks - my therapist tells me I keep trying to protect her and that she doesn't need me to - it feels safer to look after others and not oneself
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(((Carmina))), I know just what you mean when you say this. However, I think this is probably where you get this and I believe this is also why I myself struggle because I had too many of these type of individuals in my personal history and my kind temperment actually attracts them to me and I just didn't realize it. It's something to sit and think about.
Why empaths and narcissists are attracted to each other - Business Insider When I think about negative self talk, the I have to for "them" and I can't have "my own feelings", I think this develops because this is what someone is told to think about themselves because the other person, be it a parent or sibling or even a spouse, tended to insist on their feelings being more important and this can lead to the one being influenced to disassociate in an effort to "not feel their own feelings". When I read the part about how it's ok to ask their advice, I can think of someone that liked having that power, that's not about empathy though, that's more about giving the other toxic person the power they like to have and the authority. Last edited by Open Eyes; Feb 11, 2018 at 03:31 PM.. |
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Had a bad day at work, 2 of my students were struggling with something and straight away I was finding ways to blame myself, examining everything I did for that little mistake somewhere I must have made. I tell them all the time not to beat themselves up for making mistakes and yet I do that all the time myself, and worse. I went home feeling back in that place, when I was small, thinking I had done something wrong, but never quite being able to understand what it was. Just that I must be bad, wrong, not even human really.
I'm really really sick of this feeling, I feel so cut up inside, and it makes me want to cut myself again outside. It's just intolerable. Even worse is knowing tomorrow I will find another way to drag myself in and cope all over again because letting people at work down would be impossible for me to do. I think coping has become such a habit, almost like an addiction. |
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I did try to be true. My dentist said I looked well or at least better than my previous visit. I was brave and said if only I felt it. People don't like the truth... My sympathies to you Carmina Much love |
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I’ve also found that people don’t like the truth grrrrrrrrrrr
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For me, some self talk (etc) which is commonly used is.. sub optimal for me... I’m also familiar with the “I’m fine thanks” response, it is my usual... and usually not true Hugs __________________ |
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I don't dare tell family, friends or co-workers that I suffer from C-PTSD. So, no one really knows me. They think I am happy when I am, in fact, miserable. Just thinking about it makes me even sadder and depressed.
I really don't like people anymore. I can't wait to go home and be alone even though my C-PTSD rages there. I find modern people to be exceeding tribal and cruel. Where can I move where people are accepting and nice? |
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Does anyone EVER tell you what a wonderful teacher you are? Has anyone ever given you respect? It could be that because you DO help others in your teaching that people around you think you are stronger than you actually are too. Often these "negative feelings" develop in one's childhood and the person isn't even aware of it. This is probably part of how you teach your students making sure they don't beat themselves up if they don't "just" get things right. It may trigger you when a student struggles because somehow in your past you were blamed when someone else was struggling. I am not good enough because YOU are not good enough messages. Or, I am not happy and it's YOUR fault messages too. And even if you don't do what I want and need you are being bad. Even, if I don't think what you care about is important that what you care about isn't important. That's one children often hear a lot. This can create this ongoing challenge in someone where they begin to subconsciously believe that their feelings are not important and don't have any value. And even "it's more important that others feel good about themselves". Does this describe how you feel at all? |
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It's always safer when something you do or say makes someone else happy though isn't it? We actually do have a lot of societal messages that tell us this as well. |
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I get told it all the time but I find it hard to hear
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Do you think that maybe if you embrace and accept that you are doing well, are a good teacher that something bad will happen?
It was your mother who failed YOU, not the other way around ((Carmina)). See this: Quote:
I believe you ARE a good teacher and I do hope you will learn to embrace that because you want to give your students something you missed having yourself. I am sure you make sure you help them feel good about their achievements and you nurture their self esteem. |
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I have been giving what you shared here a lot of thought. There are times that I can feel this way myself.
When a child grows up in a dysfunctional home where they don't feel safe and they get messages from a parent or even a sibling that constantly faults them, they have no choice but to try to function despite the negative messages they are getting and whatever is taking place in their home that contributes to their not feeling safe. When you say "I am functioning but I am not healing", well, that is saying a lot. That's because that is what you did as a child too, I can SO RELATE to this myself. A child if told they are a disappointment or a burden will begin to believe it, the child believes it because a child has no life experiences to know otherwise. A parent that constantly attacks a child's self esteem is very hard on that child and can actually create some very deep seeded negative self beliefs in that child that can affect how that child feels about themselves for the rest of their lives. This can genuinely lead to this challenge you are describing where functioning well doesn't heal this deep seeded hurt and sense of poor self image. A part of you knows what's missing and you try to provide it to others, and I bet you do a really good job when it comes to that. Yet, often that alone doesn't heal the hurt in "self". I have a hurt like that and I really have a hard time when it comes to sharing my own needs and hurts. I genuinely FEEL like if I do that someone will criticize me for it and I can get hurt. This has led to others saying "how can you be so good about helping others and yet struggle so much yourself". Well, this develops from getting messages over and over again that you should not FEEL and "don't feel because I don't want to hear it" and your problems are not important, don't bother me with your problems. And somehow often without realizing it a person begins to feel bad if they need help and have problems or are hurt or scared or NEED something. Without realizing it, you know what's missing and you can help others and see their needs, but you unknowingly can feel that your own needs are a burden. Another thing that can happen that a person challenged like this can end up experiencing is how they are surrounded by people that NEED from them yet cannot provide the same back. This can most definitely reinforce this same vein without someone realizing it. The responses to a need are usually COLD and matter of fact like telling you how to fix a mathematical problem or something, instead of providing caring and emotional support. So, this message of "don't bother me with your feelings" tends to keep that deep seeded challenge constant in the subconscious mind. That is what you want to "heal" and often there has been so many negative messages that this hurt can take a long time to heal, for some, the rest of their lives. The important thing about where you are right now is that you are becoming more aware and are identifying the source of the hurt you have that needs healing. "We may forget exactly what someone says, but we never forget how that person made us feel", that is the truth and can take time to slowly define what that hurt was so one can talk it out and slowly and gradually identify each kind of hurt that created in them. |
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