Trust Issues (Maybe A Rant, But I Don't Think So!)

[fin]

Thankyou pebbels for taking the time here. You have encouraged me maybe more than you might know. I hope it is working for you also -being here.

I will have to try to get to know people a little better I think. Just thankyou for offering me this in friendship...it is good to know that people here are with me, each of us..all together.

I would like to say that slowly some part of me is begining to see that I can maybe place trust better than I was. ~I Hope So~ anyway.

Just have to keep trying, each and everyday to manage somehow better than the day before. It does get better, just have to know or try to, and *hope* when we don't know.

Thankyou -it isn't easy but it is possible-and its maybe becoming a little clearer to me now, well more so than before

~fin

 

[Lionheart]

Hi fin, I just wanted to add that even though a therapist has training in PTSD does not mean they will be a good fit for you.
I have fired several therapists, one for blaming me for my problems, (that took about 2 seconds), and another one that was going into semi-retirement for focusing on getting me back to work instead of getting me well and for comparing his being shot in the shoulder to my decades long history of severe sexual, physical, emotional, (etc. ) abuse. (I don't tolerate anyone minimizing the devastation that the trauma caused and I certainly won't accept that behavior from a therapist). Yay, me! lol
Anyways, I encourage you to trust your instincts on this. A wise man once told me that, if I would give it serious thought, that the only time my intuition ever let me down was when I didn't listen to it. Well, I did just that and soon came to trust my-(intuitive)-self. A problem I still have sometimes tho, is wanting to ignore the red flags that people sometimes send up...but it is a work in progress and I am progressing and you will progress too.
My best to you.
~Lewie~

 

[pebbels]

Lionheart, love the attitude:thumbs-upnice!! and good on YOU:Hug_emoticon:

 

[fin]

Lewie, you have a lions heart, thankyou so much for this..

Anyways, I encourage you to trust your instincts on this. A wise man once told me that, if I would give it serious thought, that the only time my intuition ever let me down was when I didn't listen to it.

I have been struggling to trust my instincts, and it has been making me ill, I have been going backwards in trying to avoid doing something big. I have had no confidence in myself and just even knowing how I would be able to do this has terrified me. I have gone so far off line of late and been so confused, and the pit has been more familiar to me for too long perhaps.

So I am going to try again. Today I am going to try again, and I am getting myself back up again today -somehow, one way or another.

Thankyou for this, and your words of encouragment here.

Well, I did just that and soon came to trust my-(intuitive)-self. A problem I still have sometimes tho, is wanting to ignore the red flags that people sometimes send up...but it is a work in progress and I am progressing and you will progress too.

I think I had tried to depend on the reputation thing too much, and I know I should have said something sooner. But I am so gratefull that you have written this to me, and shared this -because I can read it again -now- and maybe better than I did before when you first posted.

Thankyou again

your friend ~fin