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04/22/2012 06:55 AM
recovering4love
recovering4love
 
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I want to open myself up about the current struggles I know I have put off in order to "duct tape" everything that was happening. I think some history is due here to expose the extent of what I have tried to come through. I have chosen the title because it represents where I am right now, some people (women) I have worked for say I look nice, trouble is I don't feel nice, I am thinking I would like to feel nice but am going to have to open up the ugly truth why I don't and or expose the lies I am believing to move out of this funk. I want to because I don't want to "activate" emotionally due to a compliment from a place of vulnerability. I want to be in a place where I am more than feeling better because I look nice, I want to live nice, feel nice. I realize now after being here and letting things in (on this site) that I am in an unstable state of self-esteem, especially if a compliment can get my attention in such a way that I feel a little better. Its not that I don't appreciate the compliment it's that I REally appreciate the compliment!!Pinch
Doing my best.
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04/22/2012 02:21 PM  Top
Cowfused

Are you saying you are worried that you are too vulnerable to nice things people say to you, that you are worried that you will react to that, rather than enter into a relationship with a human being?

Post edited by: Cowfused, at: 04/22/2012 04:03 PM


04/22/2012 03:58 PM  Top
chelle005
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Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle im sexy and i know it!

lol

when you are ready you will know it. divorce care groups say i year of finding yourself again for every five years you were together. It goes fast. I am at around the 1 year mark and no where near ready. It is ok. Remember just because they may be with some one else does not mean you have to. That relationship is doomed to make the same mistakes because no learning was done. You do not want to do that.

Take the compliant and smile, feel good but do not feel pressured to date that person. it is ok to be alone. Learn to love yourself so that others can also.


04/23/2012 05:51 AM  Top
recovering4love
recovering4love
 
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Cowfused

I am still married. Its just, the compliments are attractive to me in a way I have not felt before. This time...now in my life...I am realizing so much about this dis-ease so fast and the futility it represents, I guess other parts of me are waking up? and I am noticing...noticing every thing so all at once that I am not sure where I am ...a little. but that is a good question that says to me ..are you here or lost.

Doing my best.

04/23/2012 06:02 AM  Top
recovering4love
recovering4love
 
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Chelle

I am not planning on dating anyone, really because I am married. It is the feeling good part that is or has been foreign to me since her manic episode, her infidelity etc...I have not really thought about anyone else but her and my family. Its all that cheating that I have tried to process as mania, I mean she's not hyper-sexual now...but when she was.. the affront of her .... actions, choices?, screwed up everything, my life has been trying to recover mode. But something is changing......after being here and listening to directed questions or stories...I am becoming more aware of reality.

Doing my best.

04/23/2012 06:03 AM  Top
recovering4love
recovering4love
 
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No I am real enough to enter a relationship with a healthy human being.
Doing my best.

04/24/2012 05:02 AM  Top
recovering4love
recovering4love
 
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It suddenly came to me that my wife could not have know me and have loved me any more than what was not there in her as a person, that the love I was living was very different than the reasons she could experience. I feel a deep loss at this revelation because it means I have been alone basically in my love dream with a skeptic, a person in loss, in misery. Her projections of life are not the sharing's of love, being one, making the most of moments. Her life is a series of dark projections and disassociation's, she has not loved....not me...not her ...not life...nothing. I have not wanted to know this or see it because I have wanted her to be like ..like..what I thought we were all like but this eventually became an overwhelming threat to her perceptions of self. The wired reactions to her growth in a family of molestation, alcoholism,abuse,neglect,abandonment,rape, are her realities and thoughts, these are her visions of life and the lack of them. She has survived hate and believed in isolation, protection, defensiveness, measuring pain, avoiding that pain, she has learned how to lie, throw away, disregard, humiliate, abandon, avoid, she is a human in hell. I married a person who was prevented from becoming a person. The arrested development caused by her family and life tree, became the synapses patterns plotted out in her brain and became her. She was prone to find the path of least resistance to her plight. I believed in other things, and did not see the reality of darkness until she tried to catch me up in her nightmare as a part for me to play. I believe Bp-polar exists and can be created in the stress of disproportional unloving development through childhood. I think a person can't be what was never developed and does through the one that was, that a series of "triggers" are set in the brain to help the child live in the environment. That these chemical producers are the culprits to the unease we see in narcissistic, borderline, and Bipolar personalities, and that the drugs slow or even block the normal developed path ways...that therapy can help a person develop new ones but the progress is only in proportion to the support given. I think these people are helpless to what was created in them by nature and nurture. The destructive force of their developed personalities can be felt throughout our world. God does not stop babies from being raped or stop the out come of said atrocities from hurting others later in life, it is given to us to make a better world and to stay warm when it is cold. It is a wonder...this life. But I am not advocating staying with a person of destructive nature who is Experiencing Bipolar or the like.
Doing my best.

04/24/2012 08:54 AM  Top
hypnagogic
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Not directed at anyone - I have seen that individuals are in love with the idea of love; to have the white picket fence, to have no arguments, quarrels, some contention, and the like. Some individuals seem to love hop, if you will, trying to find themselves through someone else. They will not succeed. It's only when an individual is ready to take an introspective look at the issues they face that they can begin to heal. Healing may take time, a lot of time. Depending upon the issues and cognitive distortions, the recovery may last an entire lifetime.

I do believe support is essential. We all need support of some kind, at least that's the way I view life. Even the fact that being on MDJ is a type of support. Hey, it helps me in a multitude of ways. I am reminded of the book titled "The Boy Called 'It'".

Not a psychiatrist (pdoc) nor a therapist...what you read are my thoughts and there you go.

My mind is like lightning...one brilliant flash and it's gone.

Diagnosis: Human


Equetro, Clonazepam, Clonidine, Lamotrigine, Xanax (PRN)

04/24/2012 09:22 AM  Top
livinginablender
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recovering4love

i get what you are saying.

i have auto responses. he looks at me with adoration, my brain tells me

he is looking for flaws.

i have more, i have not had enough coffee yet or i would list them .

they are probably like yours anyways.

i have been programed to believe the lies

the words.

i have been dating, and it has brought me much panic.

i need to re program my beliefs.

i do this by thinking.

not believing.

he looks at me, i believe..he is looking for flaws

I THINK, he is adoring me and I respond with a smile and touch and say thank you.

Thinking, brings movement.

Belief, does not move outside the box.


05/07/2012 06:33 AM  Top
recovering4love
recovering4love
 
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still alive,
Doing my best.
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