please recommend a self help book, therapy, drug...

Schrodinger's Cat · 01-22-2005, 01:51 AM

Stacey, I suspect you grew up in an environment where you weren't allowed to be a "self." Possibly, you had an overly critical or demanding parent who was difficult to please. As an adult, you do not feel "authentic." When you recieve praise, you dismiss it, thinking to yourself, "They don't know what I'm REALLY like." When someone critisizes you, you unconsciously revert to a child in front of a scolding parent. You accept low paying jobs and unsatisfactory relationships because on some level you think that's all you deserve. You need to work to consciously counter these early negative messages that you have unconsciously assimilated into your thinking about yourself and your situation.

404Error · 01-22-2005, 05:29 AM

You still wake up sometimes, don't you? Wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs.

01-22-2005, 01:51 AM	#1
Schrodinger's Cat Macavity Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A Black Box Posts: 157	Stacey, I suspect you grew up in an environment where you weren't allowed to be a "self." Possibly, you had an overly critical or demanding parent who was difficult to please. As an adult, you do not feel "authentic." When you recieve praise, you dismiss it, thinking to yourself, "They don't know what I'm REALLY like." When someone critisizes you, you unconsciously revert to a child in front of a scolding parent. You accept low paying jobs and unsatisfactory relationships because on some level you think that's all you deserve. You need to work to consciously counter these early negative messages that you have unconsciously assimilated into your thinking about yourself and your situation. __________________ Macavity, Macavity, there's no on like Macavity, He's broken every human law, he breaks the law of gravity. - T.S. Eliot, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

01-22-2005, 05:29 AM	#2
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	You still wake up sometimes, don't you? Wake up in the dark and hear the screaming of the lambs. __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

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