Yes, thinking for my self, going with my gut, trusting in myself and my points of view have never steered me wrong.

We are all born babes to this world. What makes any one of us know any more than any other? Just because clergy have mastered their knowledge of religion doesn’t make them any internally smarter, deep down than you or me. Plus, I’ve personally known some to be super messed up and hypocrites!

Now, in the case where you know you have MI, and you know that can cause you to feel like something is a good idea that is certainly a bad idea, well, there you make a good point. I try not to be too impulsive. If I have doubts about something, I may take my time before doing it, run the idea by others, get feedback. Do you learn from your mistakes? Do you really make terrible choices? Or have you been led to think you always make terrible choices?

If you run an idea past several others, you’ll usually get a general consensus that will be good advice.

I feel for you in never knowing who to trust and feeling like you can’t trust yourself.

Now, my mother is rather narcissistic. She did teach me her POV of how things should be. But, she also did teach me to think for myself and I did defy her if I thought that’s what’s right. I did what I wanted to do. If I made a bad choice, I learned from it.