Talking is hard...

Opening up is hard, I feel numbed. When I don't talk people just walk away and said they are done trying but How am I supposed to talk when I keep getting abandoned? I need time to talk, I can't just open my mouth and bark.

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Fishy · 36-40, F

I know the feeling, this is where journaling as helped me a lot,

In my journal I can anticipate the questions that people might ask me when opening up and I don't need to filter anything because it's just a journal,

and also the things I want to talk about and how I want to communicate it always come in intervals, never all at once

Sometimes it helps to read an edited (polite) version of my journals to the person I'm trying to discuss my problems with