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Oct 01, 2022, 02:57 PM
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Member Since: Jul 2019
Location: Downtown Vibes, California
Posts: 15,701
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Originally Posted by Soupe du jour
... And sometimes we need more than we can give. That's OK. If it wasn't, none of us would ever stay. With a mental illness, it's par for the course to have fluctuating needs and behavior. If we can't understand that, then how could we expect to hope for it from others?
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The mushrooms are darling and do look as though they landed in from a fairy tale.
I'm going to take this opportunity to say that I easily and with joy give support to others on this forum. That said, I have begun to find it hard to endlessly, month after month turned into years, offer friendship and caring support to a few people who post on this board and never - I mean never - so much as mention anyone else on the board, unless the mention is directly about themselves. Oftentimes those members disappear and return only when they want to vent and receive support.
Such behavior has come to anger me. Now I'm setting a limit on giving my energy to those few people. I've decided that I accept the boundary I need to set and so it is. Life has to be give and take or there is no relationship. There needs to be a healthy limit on how we spend our energy.
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