Hello,
I hope you’re having a great day. I’ve been meaning to mention a few things to you for a while now, but I can’t bring myself to say it in person. I hope this will do. In a way, I don’t think therapy is working for me. Unfortunately I feel like it’s making things worst. I’ll try to explain my thought process, but it might be hard to understand what I’m trying to say and I apologize for that in advance.
As you may have realized a little bit, I am the type of person who can’t open up to anyone. Since I’m so used to that, I feel like I’ve learned to suppress or ignore some of my least desirable feelings. Or at least, I’ve learned to keep them to myself and control them a little bit. With that being said, I’m also the type of person
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It’s a possible defense mechanism that can’t be broken. For that reason, I feel like you’re not going to be able to truly help me since you don’t have all the information in order to do so. That’s totally my fault, not yours. I know I’m not suppose to tell you everything about myself, but like I have to tell you some things and be honest in order for you to be able to help me and I can’t do that because of the barrier I’ve created. So in my mind since you can’t really help me I feel bad because I feel like you could be spending your time doing something else or like helping someone else instead.
I’ve realized that almost all the things I’ve been telling you since our first session, are the things that aren’t really “deep and personal issues” mainly because they’re so obvious and I’m so used to them. For example, me telling you that I feel like I’m no one or that I get really nervous when my mom drives is like me telling you my favourite colour is blue. It’s like I’m not telling you the bigger issues or I’m not telling you something that has that big of a meaning to me. They’re just small facts. I know I have to start somewhere and normally people start working on smaller things before moving on to “bigger things”, but I can’t see myself working on “bigger issues”.
In T. Coraghessan Boyle’s story “The Love of My Life,” it centers around the teenage relationship of Jeremy and China who claim to be in love with one another and nothing else matters to them. Their relationship; however, is centered around what a relationship is like in movies and based of the physical attraction to each other as well as being naive to what real love is as this is their first real relationship with a significant other. The relationship between the two is great until they encounter their first real obstacle in the relationship when China becomes pregnant. The egocentric nature of both characters takes over and there begins to be cracks within the relationship. Now they face the reality of becoming parents and they blame
Self-disclosure is an important part of any close relationship. Without sharing our own fears and weaknesses, we can
Self-Protection: Another reason we may not express our feelings is we don’t want to give others information that could affect how they perceive or act toward us. We fear that they won’t like us.
I am a very private person and I don’t open much to anyone. So when someone is trying to be personal, or asking for advice, or when I’m overwhelmed and someone is trying to be there for me. Those are some of the times I have experienced vulnerability. I have to open up and show the other person who I really am and I don’t like that. It makes me feel vulnerable.
on whether or not I should open up about myself and things I have gone through in my personal life.
“I promise to live with you and laugh with you; to stand by your side, and to sleep in your arms; to be joy to your heart, and food for your soul; to always make you, you”(Spelling 242).When you are a kid, you don't worry about what anyone thinks. Stori Telling, an autobiography of Tori Spelling, is a hilarious autobiography about her over-the-top first wedding to finding new love to her much-publicized -- and misunderstood -- “disinheritance,” and how she makes wrong decisions in her life, and will blame others for the unhappiness in her life but it seems like most of her unhappiness is self-created and self-perpetuated.
In the book All But My Life, Gerda shows us the life of being a Jew in the days of the Nazi war. Gerda is now eighteen years old, but she is still lacking the happiness she once had. In the latest chapters, Gerda is forced out of her hometown. She moves to the “ghetto” along with all of her neighbors. A few days pass and right when things seem to get back to normal, the Klein family gets split up. They all go to separate camps to perform labor for the Nazis. A few weeks later, Gerda finds no sign of her parents nor their whereabouts. She then is told of these horrific stories about how the Nazis tortured the Jews in Auschwitz. Gerda then receives a letter from Abek. Since Abek is higher class, he gave Gerda the option to work at their store
So what i'm trying to say is bad things can turn out to be awesome.If you never show anyone and always hide it you'll never know.Someday you make friends because of it.You could get a good scare out of it.Never be frightened to do
I even wished that something bad would happen to you. When I found out about your accident, my world turned upside down. I did not expect this to happen to anyone in my life. At first, somehow, I thought that this was my fault. When I visited you at the hospital, guilt struck me because of how bad the condition you were in. This guilt put such a huge weight on my shoulders. Because of this, I feel like I am overprotective of my other friends. There are days that I wish that I can put this down. However, if I put it down, I would be lying to myself. How can I face your family and not think of all of the terrible things that I have said about you? There are days where I wonder what if you did not suffer from a massive heart attack. What would it be like when you were well? Would we still be friends? It is sad to say that I wish I was not carrying this guilt because if I was not carrying this guilt, you would be well today. I would not be worrying about his. If the event did not happen, we probably would not be friends like we are today. I would rather have you being well and no friends with me than you being sick and still friends with me. If you understand what I am writing to you, I
Self-disclosure is the process of deliberately revealing information about oneself that is significant and would not be normally known to others. Self-disclosing is vital for intimate relationships, and it can strengthen bonds and provide liberating relief. People, however, fear rejection so any type of personal information shared can be difficult. The amount of self-disclosure depends on the importance of the relationship, the intimacy of the relationship and if the risk of disclosing is worth the end result. During the week, a friend of mine and I had a deep conversation about the evolution of our opinions regarding religion. We were both concerned with the reaction from our families because what they believe in is so engrained in their mind, that any diversion from it would not be taken well. Because of this, the subject was and still is a very personal subject for me. Later that night I spoke with Mano about the discussion my friend and I had, seeking more self-validation that I was not the only one who felt this way. However, he barely showed any interest in the subject, and made a joke of it. I was irritated but decided not to go any further because, if nothing else, I am a peacekeeper. Also, when people dismiss my thoughts, I take that as a sign that they do not care about them, so I keep quiet about it.
During my typical teenage years up until only just a few years ago, I engaged in the usual defense mechanisms of artificial confidence, hiding my insecurities and holding in my emotions both to protect my self-image and eliminate judgments from others. I wasn’t ready to reveal my true self on the basis that people might use that information to hurt or better yet, to destroy me.
When I was growing up, I remember my family situation as extremely chaotic. I was one of eight children and my father and mother had little time to devote to me individually. Most of the time they spent trying to earn enough to support us with their meager resources. I was often called upon to act as a surrogate mother to my siblings. I felt I had little time to develop my own unique perspective and voice when I was very young. Even as a preschooler I remember doing chores to help out at home. However, this situation did foster some positive aspects of my character. I learned to be mature at an early age and gained a sense of competence because of my responsibilities. But I also was taught put the needs of others second to my own. I feel that I did not learn to value my own, legitimate desires to an adequate degree as a young girl and have only recently acquired a true sense of worth [THESIS].
The challenges I have gone through has made me the person I am today and has made me a stronger person mentally and physically. I’m more of an independent type of person because I’m not one to express my feelings to people I don’t trust or don’t know. I can tell my friends certain things, but when it comes to adults asking me about what’s going on in my life, I can’t open up to them. I feel anxiety every time an adult wants to talk to me because I don’t like to say what I’m going through or how I’m feeling. I’ll just tell them that everything is fine because I don’t want to be asked more or been told more about talking to someone about my problems. I just like to do things on my own so I don’t have to rely on having someone to be here for me whenever something is wrong.
One's dream and aspirations to supersede in life must be stronger and greater than limitations set forth by others. The experience that were bestowed to me during my short life has elevated me to the woman I am today. Please walk with me as I give you the opportunity to see the world from my eyes:
This explains the beginning of my life all the way to the end of my life. My life from the beginning was very fun as I grew up living with my mom’s friend and my friend. But there were a lot of fights and I was very hyper back then. I have ADHD so back then when I was little; I was very hyper and wouldn't stop moving around the place. I always was annoying back then and never seemed to get my homework done at school.