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Old Apr 11, 2011, 10:47 AM
sittingatwatersedge sittingatwatersedge is offline
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Originally Posted by Suratji View Post
the thing is, I don't want to have my own needs. I want everyone else to have their needs met and I can be the giver, not the taker.

It's such a difficult idea to wrap my mind around - that I deserve having my needs met too. I don't even want to acknowledge that I have needs. So it feels very very bad to spend all that time talking about myself
I think it's very good that you have come to this realization it's so much safer isn't it, to work on meeting others' needs, and not deal with depending on others' meeting (or yikes, NOT meeting) yours ... at least that's how it feels from here... the only thing is, we do have needs, even if having them makes us feel defective and shame filled.... this is not narcissism Suratji.

one other misc thought.... "Narcissism" is not an all-bad concept; after all, there is a healthy narcissism that occurs in early developmental years, as the child learns to differentiate from others. Could it be possible that, even in what is remembered as a calm-filled life, that phase didn't go quite a well for one reason or another as one might think? so that today, having someone really listen intently for an hour is unsettling?