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I wandered in again... and found your thread. Struggling with a similar issue with T, and just wanting to sympathize. I kinda wish you were online still.

Good luck to you. And thanks for these: </font><blockquote><div id="quote"><font class="small">Quote:</font>
1. The capacity to experience a wide range of feelings deeply.
2. The capacity to expect appropriate entitlements.
3. The capacity for self-activation and assertion.
4. Acknowledgment of self-esteem.
5. The ability to soothe painful feelings.
6. The ability to make and stick to commitments.
7. Creativity (I have to comment here, that I can be pretty creative, but he means the ability to replace old, familiar patterns of living and problem-solving with new and equally or more successful ones. I don't do this well).
8. Intimacy - the capacity to express the real self fully and honestly in a close relationship with another person with minimal anxiety about abandonment or engulfment.
9. The ability to be alone.
10. Continuity of self (one of my biggest struggles).

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Gives me something to think about....


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