Posted by SLS on January 23, 2012, at 13:05:44
In reply to When people bring you down..., posted by Roslynn on January 23, 2012, at 11:56:07
> Hi all,
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> One of my relatives recently told me I have been "depressed for years and years" without getting better. She really got me down (actually made me feel worse) when she said this because I had been seeing myself as getting better, at least a little if not all the way.
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> How do you deal with stuff like this? :(
It helps to first be confident in your own observations and conclusions, even if you are too inhibited to assert them. It also helps to be confident that the opinions of others are not always relevant to the way you live your life. Last week, I had someone call me stupid and naive (and a few other things) during a conversation that started innocently enough. It didn't phase me in the slightest. I was pretty sure that I wasn't stupid. It wasn't important to me that I should have to prove that to anyone. I simply terminated the conversation without having any concern for what this person thought of me. In this way, I was able to preserve what I thought of myself.Easily said, I know.
- ScottSome see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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