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Originally Posted by JustShakey
I guess, for me, normalization works in a similar way to T talking about working together.
For the longest time I felt so alone, thinking that the issues I struggled with were things that 'normal' people didn't deal with, or that they were so insignificant to them that they were not an issue. I was very ashamed of my inability to cope and didn't dare to tell anyone for the most part. Whenever I tried I framed it in the kind of language that suggested I thought I was dealing with things above and beyond, which led to my feeling rejected and ignored when the person would try to tell me that what I felt was 'normal'.
It has been such a relief to finally accept that my issues are 'normal'. I am not a freak after all.
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I think that sounds like what the second described was supposed to happen after I had snapped at her about it. It doesn't do that for me, but I don't have those same concerns (in that my freakedness is not something that really bothers me) so maybe that explains why it is more dismissive than reassuring to me. And it pissed me off to no end that the therapists had not been paying attention to what I told them and thought their doing that would be useful rather than infuriating.
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Last edited by stopdog; May 03, 2016 at 05:02 PM.
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