Can You Learn How To Accept Emotional Support/love?

[Meadowsweet]

It seems like you've taken lots of steps towards getting out there Maddog, so maybe this is the next step for you.

I hope that therapy will help me to do this.

 

[Pencil]

Maddog, I can't even do therapy, due to what you describe. Oy.

 

[ms spock]

I feel like I have disconnected from a lot of people the last couple of years. The depression kicked in and I withdrew. Now I am noticing this I feel regretful and a bit sad.

 

[Abstract]

MD,
I think progress in therapy is a very good start. I suspect it takes much longer to let it spread to the rest of life and for many reasons.

relate

Thank you for expressing what you did (the whole post) with such clarity and insight.

insight and awareness are important, yet sometimes feel like the scalpel I use to conduct my own autopsy. Sorry for the somewhat graphic metaphor, but honestly, that's how I feel sometimes, as though I can carefully dysect myself in exactly the right way and see how everything pieces together,

And I just had to quote this as that is exactly what I do! With such dispassionate and almost cruel precision. I am the butterfly I have pinned to the dissection board - still fluttering. I have little connection to it. I try to process feelings too these days with a little progress.