Posted by Bent on December 21, 2004, at 9:16:35
In reply to Planet Clueless, posted by messadivoce on December 20, 2004, at 2:17:31
I think I can relate. When I first went into therapy I was in high school. You would have thought the world was ending according to my parents. I was like an outcast - a flaw in their want-to-seem-perfect family. Of course they wanted to seem perfect, one parent an alcoholic and one with BPD. I had to hear how even though I was suicidal, people like me didn’t need therapy. People like me? I am just glad I was strong enough to look beyond their comments and stay in therapy. I think it was the first move I made for my own mental health, and one of the best things I could do. As an adult, I am still in therapy and my parents know. They also know that in therapy I need to talk about them and my life growing up with them. They don’t comment much about it now. I’d dare them to even say something bad about it. I don’t think they would because even though they might not admit it (my mom might) they know how much I have changed for the better from having a good T. I don’t know if this is helpful...maybe I am just rambling. I do know what you mean by a different planet. Walking into my parent's home is like entering another world. A world of fakeness and denial where you are only accepted if you are happy and 'normal.'
I hope you are able to have a good Christmas with your family. Remember your strengths, that always helps me.
poster:Bent
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