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Originally Posted by saidso
Open Eyes - I would really like it if you listened to what I am saying, before you try to instruct me, even though you probably feel that instruction would be helpful. If you can't listen, then I don't understand why you jump in so quick on me!
Perhaps you have a point about mental illness, but the fact that you don't listen to me at all, and then need to dive in.... to me that negates my wanting to exchange anything human with you.
To me it's weird to be lectured by someone who doesn't listen, sorry not meaning to be rude but just to tell how I feel.
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This stood out to me, and a lot of people struggle with no help in that they can't afford it. I had to go without myself for that reason.
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I don't live in the therapy world... so my comments are not so gentle, empathetic as they were when I believed that there were people out there wanting to... help me, when I believed that if there were not people out there to help then other survivors would fight alongside me. I do value gentleness, but I've also come to value edginess and life experience. Someone at my back has been more desperately needed than sympathy. But it takes all energies to make a healthy world..
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I was responding to this so I was listening. My reply was "what can be helpful" . Perhaps you feel for some reason I am not being gentle enough? I have myself been emotionally abused and invalidated and talked down to by toxic people so I do try to be gentle with others. I do admit that I hope what I am dealing with IRL isn't affecting my posting as IRL has been incredibly toxic right now for me. I don't want that to affect what I post here as I had noticed it has in the past.
