Posted by seldomseen on October 3, 2007, at 3:07:05
In reply to Re: Ok, this I can understand. » seldomseen, posted by Dinah on October 2, 2007, at 13:57:39
I'm not at all sure that is has to snowball or cascade.
I think the key here, and perhaps what your therapists are getting at, is that it takes confidence to know, even if you think that you are in a downward spiral, that you can handle it without extreme measures to alleviate the pain.
I think it is about trusting yourself and your own strength and less about white-knuckling it through - although you may have to do just that for a little while.
But each time you make it, you get a little better at it.
It seems like life ebbs and flows. For some people (like me) that ebb and flow is a lot more dramatic than for others. It's a burden, but it can be carried.
Seldom.
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