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Mar 29, 2011, 02:09 AM
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Why doesn't my nervous system think that I can handle being a grown up? I know that I can and my T is constantly always telling that she knows that I can but she says my nervous system only thinks that I can only handle being a kid. Why nervous system? Why don't you believe in me?
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Mar 29, 2011, 02:56 AM
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Anyone have any possible reasons or suggestions??
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Mar 29, 2011, 03:01 AM
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there are just things we have to learn as we did not have the opportunity to learn when we were kids. it is ok,
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Mar 29, 2011, 03:03 AM
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Mar 29, 2011, 03:05 AM
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it is hard but worth it. we are not bad people. we have lots to offer
 but i gotta go to bed, cause i am withering away... talk later i hope! 
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Mar 29, 2011, 03:16 AM
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Mar 29, 2011, 09:08 AM
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#8
Mar 29, 2011, 10:53 AM
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haha, fartraveler, made me think of this comic you may enjoy.
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co...-be-adult.html (((cats))) |
| Fartraveler, gkeeper, mixedup_emotions, pachyderm, PTSDlovemycats, rainbow8, Seshat
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#9
Mar 29, 2011, 11:06 AM
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Oh boy do I relate! Thanks for sharing that. -Far |
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#10
Mar 29, 2011, 11:24 AM
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Training, train yourself. Athletes need to do it and so so we! Start small and keep building.
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Don't let your problems or the world make you feel small. Stretch your arms out over your head. Take a deep breathe. Tell yourself that you are big. You are big, not small. You always have space, you are not trapped........ I'm an ISFJ |
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#11
Mar 29, 2011, 11:59 AM
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#12
Mar 29, 2011, 09:08 PM
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T told me today that my nervous system doesn't think that I am a grown up because I am scared to grow ip. I told her "But I am a grown up" She said. "No. Not all of you is yet." What is this supposed to mean??
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Mar 30, 2011, 09:57 AM
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Those of us who grew up in dysfunctional homes didn't get to mature emotionally. Our bodies grew and even our intellect but emotionally we find ourselves still children. You can continue emotional develop as an adult, however. I did and so have others.
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Don't let your problems or the world make you feel small. Stretch your arms out over your head. Take a deep breathe. Tell yourself that you are big. You are big, not small. You always have space, you are not trapped........ I'm an ISFJ |
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Mar 30, 2011, 10:17 PM
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Mar 31, 2011, 12:35 AM
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Mar 31, 2011, 02:21 AM
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It feels like it is never going to go away!
 
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Mar 31, 2011, 11:13 AM
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Okay, so now I will answer your question - I started therapy in my mid 20's, off and on for 10 years (maybe 20 sessions in all with 3 different therapists). Then I did my own work for the next 10 years. I think that I matured to an adequate place after maybe 10 years. (But I kept going after that and I'm still going........)
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Don't let your problems or the world make you feel small. Stretch your arms out over your head. Take a deep breathe. Tell yourself that you are big. You are big, not small. You always have space, you are not trapped........ I'm an ISFJ |
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Apr 01, 2011, 07:38 PM
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It is a long road isn't it?
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Jul 08, 2011, 11:07 PM
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Wow, things still aren't really improving with this. T still says that I need to stop acting like a child and focus and concentrate more. harumph.
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Jul 09, 2011, 08:48 AM
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any consolation, cats, I am older than you and have the same struggle......like fartraveler said earlier, some of my trouble falls along the lines of not feeling able to handle the responsibilities like billpaying, etc.....
I don't know how I am going to manage to grow up either, I feel rather stuck and lost and in limbo and a bit of a loser! |
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Jul 09, 2011, 05:28 PM
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Thanks Poetgirl, I don't think that you are that much older than me though but yea, it helps a bit.
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