WishfulThinking123
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Is it possible do you think to avoid thinking about deep seated emotional turmoil/past trauma by creating new problems for yourself so those are what people see and focus on?
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then we have become comfortable with dysfunction and when there isn’t any, were LOST. We don’t know how to function without dysfunction. So, we create it in order to function.
I can really relate to this! Actually in t sometimes I will spend most of the session working on solving other people in my family's problems because, then we don't have to focus on my issues. A while ago in T I was having problems with drinking too much and I was going on about that but, my T said something along the lines of lets talk about the issues underneath this instead of just focusing on your poor coping mechanisms. I remembered this the other day and it got me thinking maybe I would rather have these poor coping mechanisms like self harm for instance because its easier to cry and whine about those and "work" on those because, they are just coping mechanisms as opposed to working on the hidden pain beneath..I also insisted on being the problem solver for others, no matter the extent I had to go to in order to help, so I stayed way too busy to mind and tend to my own sorrows. Avoidance that looks healthy to others, I suppose.