Posted by AuntieMel on August 23, 2004, at 12:39:44
In reply to Re: Everthing I wrote last night is best ignored. :( » Dinah, posted by JenStar on August 22, 2004, at 18:34:01
One thing you wrote caught my attention:
"Sometimes I used to feel despair at work because I felt that the 'real' person was becoming too far buried under the lacquer of the 'socially acceptable' person. I didn't LIKE the lacquer (some people do like it...bully for them, right?) and started feeling suffocated."
In cases like that I LOVE the lacquer. I don't WANT to be up close and personal with people I work with. That part of me is saved for the few. And for the most part workmates aren't part of the few. It would be just too uncomfortable if they found a part of the "real" me that they thought strange. Laugh, joke, get along and do my work.
Imagine their surprise, though, when I had my breakdown, spent a few days in the hospital and took 4 months medical leave.
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