Posted by beardedlady on February 8, 2003, at 5:58:07
In reply to Re: Not dumping at all. » beardedlady, posted by Miller on February 7, 2003, at 20:59:37
Miller,
I was wondering what you meant about giving up the escape hatch of suicide, but then I realize that everyone has an escape hatch. Mine is a sleeping pill. I know that it's there if I need it.
Fortunately for me, the sleeping pill isn't the end of my life. (It's something I loathe, even though it doesn't even give me a hangover.)
Maybe you and your therapist can come up with a new escape hatch. Or maybe that escape hatch can always be there, but you just won't ever think about it.
So keep it around, but make it difficult to find by surrounding yourself with feel-good things.
Look at getting well as something you deserve. Own it. Take charge of it. Say dammit, this is mine! Isn't worthiness one of your major esteem issues anyway? Once you begin to believe you are worthy of getting well, you'll probably have this landslide: you'll brighten, you'll feel better, you'll feel you deserve to be better, you'll fight any feelings to feel bad, etc.
So let's try to focus here on all the positive things that will happen to you. Your babbler buds believe in you. Now it's your turn.
Good luck. See you next week.
beardy : )>
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