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Did raising a difficult child completely skew your emotional reponses?
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<blockquote data-quote="slsh" data-source="post: 484671" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>Thanks, ladies. </p><p></p><p>Actually, this poor therapist caught it full force - well about as full force as I get these days - from the get go. I picked her specifically because of her stated areas of interest, and I think it's a decent fit. There's just been so much yucky stuff building up, she could have been the therapist from Hades (which she definitely isn't) and I still would've spewed. </p><p></p><p>It's more the people in my life, which means the family. I know depression is a big factor (what's-the-point kind of attitude) but I think also just having been in the unemotional response mode for so long with thank you that it's how I react to everyone. For ex., my second session, I get there and there's no checks in the checkbook. husband had just put it on my desk while I was in the shower, didn't tell me no checks, didn't move the 6 inches to get a new checkbook to put in the darn wallet. Nothing new, his typical MO, but I totally lost it in therapist's office. I would never say anything to husband because, well, what's the point? He's been doing this for 25 years. Had I been anywhere else, I would've just inhaled it up, charged whatever I needed to buy, and gone home and put in a new checkbook without saying anything to husband.</p><p></p><p>I don't know, maybe it's more to do with- my own junk than effects of raising thank you in an as emotionally neutral manner as possible. Though I really do think that somehow, for whatever reason, I am responding to everyone in the family very neutrally, have been for quite a while. It's definitely not how I was 15-20 years ago. </p><p></p><p>State Bed and Breakfast sounds like a fabulous idea, if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure everything would fall apart at home in a heartbeat. husband has become a very compliant 5-year-old, and the kids are... well, teens. It's pretty bad when your difficult child is the most helpful person in your life, LOL (though thank you really has made remarkable growth).</p><p></p><p>And no, I'm most definitely *not* neutral on the inside. Rapid screaming boil would be more like it - think China Syndrome. </p><p></p><p>Anyway.... onward. Thanks again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slsh, post: 484671, member: 8"] Thanks, ladies. Actually, this poor therapist caught it full force - well about as full force as I get these days - from the get go. I picked her specifically because of her stated areas of interest, and I think it's a decent fit. There's just been so much yucky stuff building up, she could have been the therapist from Hades (which she definitely isn't) and I still would've spewed. It's more the people in my life, which means the family. I know depression is a big factor (what's-the-point kind of attitude) but I think also just having been in the unemotional response mode for so long with thank you that it's how I react to everyone. For ex., my second session, I get there and there's no checks in the checkbook. husband had just put it on my desk while I was in the shower, didn't tell me no checks, didn't move the 6 inches to get a new checkbook to put in the darn wallet. Nothing new, his typical MO, but I totally lost it in therapist's office. I would never say anything to husband because, well, what's the point? He's been doing this for 25 years. Had I been anywhere else, I would've just inhaled it up, charged whatever I needed to buy, and gone home and put in a new checkbook without saying anything to husband. I don't know, maybe it's more to do with- my own junk than effects of raising thank you in an as emotionally neutral manner as possible. Though I really do think that somehow, for whatever reason, I am responding to everyone in the family very neutrally, have been for quite a while. It's definitely not how I was 15-20 years ago. State Bed and Breakfast sounds like a fabulous idea, if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure everything would fall apart at home in a heartbeat. husband has become a very compliant 5-year-old, and the kids are... well, teens. It's pretty bad when your difficult child is the most helpful person in your life, LOL (though thank you really has made remarkable growth). And no, I'm most definitely *not* neutral on the inside. Rapid screaming boil would be more like it - think China Syndrome. Anyway.... onward. Thanks again. [/QUOTE]
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