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Originally Posted by unaluna
Thats me, or was. Thats how my mother was, everything was a catastrophe. I finally figured out, like in 2001, no lie, when i was 49, that she just wanted to win every argument, even if it meant switching sides halfway thru! I just blindly absorbed her method of discourse. I had to stop seeing her (which therapists had been begging me to do for literally decades) before i could start to absorb my ts calm demeanor. Absorb sounds funny but i think thats what i did!
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That's very interesting. I think I absorb other people's stress. There was a lot of very stressed out people at the job I was just terminated from. It is a national corporation so I went online to a forum of employee and former employee's views about working for this company. Every one mentioned high stress and a hostile environment.
I think I need better techniques to offload the stress I pick up. I can be on the bus and someone will sit down next to me and start telling me all their troubles and by the time I get off the bus I will have picked up their stress.