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Finding self help overwhelming

Have you ever felt just like real healing or real self love or real love in general, is always out of reach?
If you've watched videos on confidence, read many books on healing anxiety , minimizing PTSD symptoms, etc..but it's always all on YOU. Changing my entire blueprint is Extremely difficult. A blueprint of trauma, violence, fear. I'm trying to give myself compassion. That's super hard too, I lived on eggshells daily for many years.( Not To laugh, or even allowed to Talk sometimes.)
I read it's our responsibility to try to diminish the trauma, but when you have to figure out an entire SELF, and develop your own self love, it's overwhelming sometimes. I occasionally think, can love ever come from anywhere else, and what if ever feeling normal is out of my reach???
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Livingwell · 61-69, M
It feels like so many people claim to be experts but deliver little usable advice. The one thing that resonated with me is "don't let anything live rent free in your head.". Easier said than done, right? But I did it. First by letting go of my divorce where I felt like a complete failure. Second, by letting go of my dad's transgressions. To do so I used anger. Anger that I was treated that way. And anger that I let myself be in that position. It was like a light switch was flipped and the pain and fear was gone. Everyone is different. But I know that anger is a very strong tool for survival. And it works. If you can use it to take control like I did, you can beat it. 🤗
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