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Originally Posted by hamster-bamster
Let us try this mental exercise.
Picture yourself on a date. Let us just imagine a typical date at a restaurant, without bells and whistles.
What is terrifying if you picture yourself sitting across the table from your date?
Do you feel afraid of not being liked?..
...or, of being liked too much, too soon, too intensely for you to even feel safe?
... or what? what exactly is so terrifying?
I bet if you can picture this and pinpoint/name what is so terrifying, it might even stop being AS terrifying as it is now, unnamed and completely catastrophic.
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Just thinking of that made my heart race very fast.
While closing my eyes and imagining this...
First, I feel that the person will think I am not pretty enough.
Secondly, I don't know what to talk about, I am afraid they will find me unintelligent.
I also think that if it goes any further that the person will hurt me
but most of all, I am ashamed of being bipolar.
I feel that no one will accept this or they just cannot handle it.
Wow, this exercise is helping a bit! Thank you