Cognitive behavioral therapy. You’ve been robbed of the decision tree that helps you determine whether someone is a threat. You need someone to help guide you through your emotions and explore them in a safe place. I’m sorry you were abused, but that doesn’t define who you are. Now that you are older (and hopefully away from that situation) you get to define who you are. Yes, you have a problem to work on, but that is just one aspect of the special, complex, and loving individual you are. Another thing: You need to love yourself like the parent you never had. You need to talk to yourself with the same unconditional compassion you’d feel for an abandoned child. Radical love.
I was really touched by your response, comrade. I'm even shocked someone on the internet can be so warm with a stranger, this community is great, and you are great, comrade. Thank you <3.
I will look into everything you guys are recommending. Cognitive behavioural therapy might help me, it was precisely because my girlfriend that I was able to explore my emotions and regain much of the self-esteem that I lost during those years.
Cognitive behavioral therapy. You’ve been robbed of the decision tree that helps you determine whether someone is a threat. You need someone to help guide you through your emotions and explore them in a safe place. I’m sorry you were abused, but that doesn’t define who you are. Now that you are older (and hopefully away from that situation) you get to define who you are. Yes, you have a problem to work on, but that is just one aspect of the special, complex, and loving individual you are. Another thing: You need to love yourself like the parent you never had. You need to talk to yourself with the same unconditional compassion you’d feel for an abandoned child. Radical love.
I was really touched by your response, comrade. I'm even shocked someone on the internet can be so warm with a stranger, this community is great, and you are great, comrade. Thank you <3.
I will look into everything you guys are recommending. Cognitive behavioural therapy might help me, it was precisely because my girlfriend that I was able to explore my emotions and regain much of the self-esteem that I lost during those years.
Again, I can't stress it enough: thank you.
Be well, comrade.