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Old Aug 08, 2016, 09:58 PM
Noitartst Noitartst is offline
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Originally Posted by amandalouise View Post
Im sorry but only you can set boundaries according to your own standards. we dont tell each other what to do, how to do it and when.

psych central is a mental health support group not a therapy group. to get actual therapy help of someone helping you to set boundaries according to your own standards you will need to find a mental health doctor, therapist, psychiatrist that you can go see face to face, to help you do that..

here at psych central we dont perform therapy, we post and talk with each other and play games just like you would your best friend. we talk about our own mental problems, what our own mental health treatments are, what our own doctors, therapists and psychiatrists have us doing for our own problems and sometimes give each other thanks and hugs using the buttons at the bottom of every post.

sometimes if we see something in someones post that interests us or is the same that we are going through we post how what was posted fits our own life and make a suggestion based on what we have done \are doing to solve that problem in our selves...

for example when I find I need to set a boundary, I decide what i want to do about a situation.. example i have a neighbor who knows I what my career is, so every time I run into him he wants to talk about bipolar disorder. I found that I was avoiding this person and realized I needed to step up and set a boundary. instead of avoiding this person when he started talking about his bipolar disorder I explained to him that I could not discuss his mental disorders with him as I was not his treatment provider, for problems related to his bipolar disorder he would need to contact his own doctors, then i turned the conversation over to a neighborly conversation by asking him if he was watching the Olympics. He apologized for trying to turn my career into a neighbor issue and we talked about the Olympics.

only you know what problems you are having and what boundaries you want to set around those problems and how to do that according to your own standards.

my suggestion is sit down and think about what boundaries you want in your life and how you want to go about having them in your life and where. then its just a matter of following through with living with in your boundaries that you set for your self.
Hm...I seem to want to project my shame onto other people, in order to deal with it. I guess that I don't want boundaries so much as to restore my honor. I read that shame leaches emotion, and that is what is happening to me.

I desperately want others to vouch for my honor and integrity with my family, but because they want to frame it all as vengefulness, and me not being able to forgive, it all comes back to I want honor, but I don't feel comfortable doing so myself, completely.

I want others to help me reach that place, but beyond that, I want to confront my family on equal terms. Restoring my integrity is key; I feel bled out, and want to go on the attack, in an appropriate manner, but the paasiveness enouraged is a masochistic *****-smack to honor, and integrity.

"Forgiving" myself never worked, because that is to imply asserting my prerogative was wrong--it isn't.

Last edited by Noitartst; Aug 08, 2016 at 10:45 PM.