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Originally Posted by PBJandPICKLES
Getting back someone's faith in you... that's a familiar feeling and a painful one. Maybe's it's really not their faith in us but our faith in ourselves that we are lacking - projecting - because of our mental illnesses??? The illness makes us more paranoid and susceptible to believing the worst in others and ourselves... idk just a thought ... as I have been having the same pains of late and thinking I have lost the love & respect (faith) of those I love. It's a painful, dark, lonely place to feel no one has faith in you.
We have to remember what these illnesses make us feel and that they are responsible for our irrational thoughts and feelings - so they're an illusion of the illness.
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Im sorry to ehar that PBJ,
Ive tried hard to show the changes in my personality but they dont see the good the focus on the flaws and the past, I have faith in myself and I know all the changes im making are really for me, but i find it hard to change when others dont see taht change either, i have been and am working hard to control all aspects of my life in an adult fahsion but feel cut off or outcast just for caring or trying