(September 14, 2016 at 8:46 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(September 14, 2016 at 4:22 pm)Losty Wrote: I had a phone call with my therapist yesterday and she said something interesting to me "feeling like you're losing it when your life is a mess is normal, Stephanie. Feeling emotionally unstable when things seem to be falling apart is completely sane."
Ok so...at the very least, I am not insane. Somehow doesn't seem all that comforting but it did help a little. Even more help was just pouring all my stress onto her. Sometimes I cling to my own misery for some reason but once I let it out that helps a lot. Now to pack all this emotional baggage back into my brain...shit is always falling out when I open up to her.
If I may offer some unsolicited advice -- don't pack it back into your brain, you may as well be fermenting grapes into wine. Let go what you can ... watch those emotions, observe their peculiar behavior, but let them be themselves, and you be yourself, separate.
I wish it was so easy. I just have a lot of shit in my head. I usually try to block out all intense emotions to protect myself from that stuff. Letting it go is more of piece by piece thing. If I let all the stuff out at once I don't think my sanity would survive.