Refueling Anger Thinking About How I'm Changed

[heidi]

One of the things that refuels my anger is that I keep comparing myself to the way I used to be to the way I am now. Is it true people are unlikely to return to normal? It looks like some people have made progress and are able to live their lives, but I can't see living my life if this doesn't go away.

 

[intothelight]

Hi Heidi,

I do the same thing, trying to measure my "progress" to what I was capable of before. But in all truth, I am living life, just differently than in the past. Some things I miss, but other things are better than they were before. I think for each person it is finding their "new normal" and accepting it. It is not "good" or "bad", just different.

Wishing you peace.
Debbie

 

[heidi]

it's hard in some ways because with PTSD is seems there is so much less to like about yourself.
I'm not normally so negative. I almost put this in the suicide idealization thread. I try to be more optimistic much of the time. I guess.

 

[heidi]

can a moderator relocate this to the suicide idealization thread? This belongs there and I'd like to shamelessly add to it. So embarrassing. I wasn't even spelling/punctuating correctly.