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Yep, I've had this for years, on and off. Today I heard "you're likeable" in my head and went with that. I've been attracting some real "loser" kind of men as well, so that is a fair reflection of how I am feeling inside myself. What gizmo said really stuck though...we are not as bad as we think...

A bit upset, worried for my cat. I took him to the vet before and it was a different vet this time and she gave a totally different diagnosis to the previous womans. She says he might need surgery. :( turns out he has been in awful pain for the last 2 months that I haven't been able to take him...

It's not just the radical minority that are the danger though...it's also the ignorance of everyone else, who then turn around and generalize "all muslims" or "all germans" or "all jews" as being the enemy. Paranoia makes the brain not work and as we know the mind loves to make assumptions, and...

In my experience, bluntness works on certain personalities, and not on others. Finding out who it works on and who does not respond well to blunt communication is a whole journey of discovery in itself. Learning to adapt my own communication styles to be effective with different personality...

Feeling a bit frantic from a hot cup of mocha from Lindt on the way home...the caffeine makes me a bit jumpy. Happy with how the day went, though the vibe was brought down by yet more supposed 'adults' abusing each other on the internet. I have to keep in mind that only miserable people feel the...

Looking over this thread has helped me to reflect on my own feelings and conclusions about sympathy. I am with most people here in that I just don't feel comfortable with sympathy, but I have to say I seem to have attracted some female friends in my real life who want a LOT of sympathy, and I...

Feeling a bit muddled. Relieved to have chatted with a lovely dear friend just before, and let her know where I was at emotionally, and we talked about last week and all the crap in the news that made everyone freak and get depressed. It was good to chat about it, now that we've both processed...

I think you made the right decision Solara, as everyone here has already confirmed. I'm glad praying worked for you and you were able to get some relief. It's reminded me that prayer is there for me as well, if I need it. I forget how effective it can be sometimes. Although I don't really know...

I think it's just a natural habit of the mind to do this. Even with loads of meditation experience, where I have fully seen the absolute folly in making assumptions, and checking my thinking to avoid this, I still do it. I agree with anthony, it's a life long practise of catching ourselves...

Thanks Anthony, that really helped, and you put it nicely too. It is easier for someone on the outside to speak about it without having any knowledge of how it makes a person feel. I just found it interesting that she said exactly what he said...that she'd probably just laugh when things don't...

I know this thread is pretty dead, and I just wanted to ask Anthony in particular about something, as I know you had a past with alcohol. I am not into drinking much, though I will have a few glasses of wine with friends and get sloshed at someones house now and then for fun, but just not into...

Hi Ali, Thanks for your reply. Of course I'd be gentle...you said nothing wrong or deserving of anything but a civil reply. :) I've cut back on reading reports of all the stuff as well...can't handle too much of it. And yes, breathing helps immensely. Also, chi goong exercises and the 5 tibetan...

I've noticed that my anxiety levels have increased and I am affected more often by the sense of real panic in my solar plexus area, as with the report the other day of the ebola outbreak, amidst all the other stuff going on in Gaza and the middle east currently. It feels like it's all just...

Do you really fail at everything? There must be some things you don't fail at, and do well. Try listing them and then you may see that you don't really fail at everything...just maybe the things your father wants you to succeed at...

This is something I've kinda been struggling with as well, and I agree with what fridayjones says...I have to remind myself that when my friend has dinner parties, or goes to events and doesn't invite me, it doesn't mean that he doesn't care about me or like my company, it's just that he is free...

Rested. I woke up feeling forgotten. I'm ok about it at the moment.

I think I like your idea marylouise, though I think it would probably be easier for me if I didn't hold onto physical things my family gave me which I see every day...like a persian rug, and a wind chimer, and a cookbook my mother made for me with photos of us as kids all over the front and back...

I would love to know myself. Everyone else makes it sound so easy. One woman I know puts up energetic shields where she has her family members names and images on the outside of the shield. She used to get attacked by her father a lot in her dreams and this has apparently worked for her. I...

So, after spending last night drinking wine with a couple of girlfriends, I came to realise that my standards are not shared by people I hold dear, after I shared the story of the 'tinnitus' guy who stood me up to get drunk and stay out all night. I know it's been weeks, and I hadn't thought...

Feeling self doubt and upsetting myself over something probably quite trivial at the end of the day. Grief, remorse, fear, like I'm wasting my life. Angst over stuff that a friend said last night to me. Maybe I'm over thinking? Definitely second guessing myself. Will I ever break out of that...

Slowly returning to a calm demeanour, after reading a meme expressing the attitude that women who are 'easy' are "rotten apples" that men only pick because they are afraid of getting hurt by the "good girls" at the top of the tree, which spoiled my zen peace and made my blood boil. Enjoying my...

I was searching for the other thread which covered the subject of MDMA used to help heal from PTSD in a professional therapeutic setting. I just finished watching an awesome you tube vid of an interview with a woman who suffered from PTSD for 20 years, and had been through it all. Her kids were...

Gosh, this one really brought back bad memories for me. I had a very similar thing happen late last year, except she actually turned violent and physically attacked me as well as verbally vomitted all over me, when I approached her about an issue that needed to be talked openly about, civilly...

Rested and calm. Hungry and dreading getting up to go food shopping. Don't want to be around people right now.

At the end of my rope. Defeated. Unsure how I will ever progress with building self worth when I keep having people in my reality treating me like I don't matter? miserable. Crushed. Sad.