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Apr 02, 2009, 01:59 AM
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Why would someone make up problems?
I do this, but I dont understand WHY I do it. I dont even think about doing it intentionally, it just happens. It's always happened. Why would I do that? I've always done it...and I know i'm a bit neurotic... I suspect it has something to do with being brought up in a chaotic household and having some subconcious need to re-create this. But i'm not sure, can someone shed some light on this please? Please dont look at me badly because of this =\
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Apr 02, 2009, 05:21 AM
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I have no idea why you do it but wanted to say I do NOT think badly of you I would imagine its just part of your mental health issues ?
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Apr 02, 2009, 09:14 AM
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Maybe you feel like you need more attention? Like the people around you who you want attention from do not pay enough attention to you? So you make up problems to get their attention? Just a guess on my part.
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Apr 02, 2009, 09:54 AM
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I used to be sick a lot as a child because I had disability that was unstable. Now its stable. It got me a lot of attention when I was little due to people having to take care of me. Maybe this is the answer? =\ I've also thought it mightve had to do with the enviroment I was brought up in. It was pretty unstable. dad was abusive and everyone was always constantly on edge. So my other theory is that I want to recreate it subconciously because its my "norm" but somehow the attention thing seems more true.
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In depression . . . faith in deliverance, in ultimate restoration, is absent. The pain is unrelenting, and what makes the condition intolerable is the...feeling felt as truth...that no remedy will come -- not in a day, an hour, a month, or a minute. . . . It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.-William Styron |
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Apr 02, 2009, 12:22 PM
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When young people grow up in chaos that becomes the only life they know how to survive in, therefore, they do things in their adult life that will recreate this chaos - their safety zone.
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Apr 03, 2009, 02:15 AM
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I don't look at you badly.
Sometimes when people are feeling upset or distressed or anxious or have this gnawing feeling or something and don't know why... Then they engage in a process of trying to figure it out. People sometimes rehearse one explanation to themself (e.g., I'm feeling anxious because of x) but then realize that that isn't it so they reherse another explanation to themself (e.g., I'm feeling distressed because I'm worrying about y) but nothing quite seems right... Is something maybe like that going on? When you realize that your attempt to explain doesn't seem right (or true) then you worry that you are engaging in lying or making up stories? Maybe the trouble it hitting upon an explanation that seems authentic to you... Or... Finding something that seems to legitimate your distress (either to yourself or to others) as someone else suggested. |
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