Truthfully? TMI, maybe, but I so easily fall into distorted thinking patterns (I'm thinking you may have seen it a long time ago -- a list of "distorted thinking patterns" I posted on the site in a thread somewhere), so often leading to thinking that somehow I've made other people mad at me. Even though, rarely, if ever, has anyone actually made it known to me that I've angered them. I'm getting a lot better at not torturing myself that way.
Definitely TMI. We'll see how long I leave my answer up :)
Yeah, I know. I do appreciate the reminder, too. It all could be simpler. But not "doing that" does not come so easily for me. But I persevere to stop doing that.
Whatever. I know I'm doing the best I can in stopping my 'self-torture' and getting my sh** together better. (Believe it or not, though, I do function in life very well in many ways. A good friend with whom I'm very open about my insecurities, told me that she would never have known that about me. I come across as very confident and funny. And, I am , in many ways, confident and funny.)
If my answer disappears, it's not you. (And I hope you won't be mad at me, ha! Laughing at myself helps me see the weirdness of it all and helps me see. But i'm tired tonight. i'll stop talking about this. And, yes, I ramble on in life at times, too.) And someone on the site once alluded to the fact I shared such things because I was proud of it. Not true. But I'll end my comment here anyway. :)
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