[split] The Newly Departed thread: announcements (departures)

[Shell B]

Are you sure you're not seeking it, Evie? A lot of the behavior you display when you're down looks like reassurance-seeking to me. That's coming from someone who reassurance seeks, though not to this degree. I'm not going to try to tell you how to get treatment or change your mind about things. I'm just saying your view of what is good for you is often in direct conflict with the advice of mental health professionals. I hope you get better at seeing that people aren't hurting you. You're being hurt by things people naturally do. It will do you a world of good. Glad you're in a better mood now, though. Peace.

ETA: I saw you mentioned that you know what works and what's good for you, and yet here you are having huge mood-swings. Avoidance feels really good to someone with clinical OCD (I'll make the distinction because you use it differently, which I should point out usually annoys the shit out of people in the OCD community. I could give a fuck less, but if you're ever chilling with people who have OCD, don't tell them you have a "have to respond to people" OCD. They'll rip you a new asshole.) Anyway, back to my point. Avoidance feels good. It's what I want to do to feel better in the short term. In the long term, it sends me into relapses because I start avoiding everything until the only shit left is stuff I can't avoid.