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Originally Posted by LaborIntensive
You know, I have sort have been this way myself. But usually you have to be really rude in the way your explaining something (work related) for me to do this. But I have for the longest time in life said some of the dumbest things in retort to other things friends were doing that was dumb. It cost me friends, make work rough and is the main reason I am seeing a psychologist these days. Even as a personal battle I would sway like a tree in a breeze and the day I swayed the wrong way was the day something stressful or questionable would come up and I would say the "wrong thing". What really sucks is not seeing the words as being inappropriate at the time. They just come out and I think nothing of it until weeks later (and that's even recall the event at all). I really hope all the best in your efforts and hopefully we can all work towards kindness and well chosen words.

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Thanks - you find and post the most interesting attachments w/your reponses. For me that fight or flight response kicks in high gear. Most my close friends understand "who I am" and I am pretty honest if I feel my reaction is not the best. My x was pretty passive aggressive. If he really pushed my buttons - not very often (he mostly ignored me) but if he did, watch the f*** out. I'm sure I scared him a few times. But he sure enjoyed the good, passionate part of my personality. Thanks for wishing me well - same to you. At least we see it and have the opportunity to work on it.
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“A person is also mentally weak by the quantity of time he spends to sneak peek into others lives to devalue and degrade the quality of his own life.” Anuj Somany
“Psychotherapy works by going deep into the brain and its neurons and changing their structure by turning on the right genes. The talking cure works by "talking to neurons," and that an effective psychotherapist or psychoanalyst is a "microsurgeon of the mind" who helps patients make needed alterations in neuronal networks.” Norman Doidge
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