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Most difficult years of my life
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<blockquote data-quote="Guidance seeker" data-source="post: 726569" data-attributes="member: 22632"><p>RE - Thank you, I was feeling pretty weak earlier as others seem so strong. I appreciate your words, they always help me and give me strength. </p><p></p><p>I really want to change, I don’t want this to continue forever. I have to change myself - the way I think, the constant anxiety and the enabling. I need to concentrate on other things. When I first put him out, I concentrated on getting fitter at the gym and doing up my house. It’s just the past 5 weeks have been so awful - the evictions etc. </p><p></p><p>I have worked as a mental health nurse for all of my adult life and have dealt with so many difficult and traumatic situations, you’d think I would know how to deal with my own son but in reality I don’t, it is so much more difficult when love and emotions are involved. People at work and friends who know about the problems I’m having have told me how resilient I am and how well I cope. When I took up a mindfulness course, my daughter asked me why and said I was one of the calmest people she had ever met. On the outside, I appear very strong but in reality I’m not which is why I found this forum and why I have posted so much and been so honest about my weaknesses (I even find it hard to do confidentially) - I guess I found it very therapeutic and was looking for guidance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guidance seeker, post: 726569, member: 22632"] RE - Thank you, I was feeling pretty weak earlier as others seem so strong. I appreciate your words, they always help me and give me strength. I really want to change, I don’t want this to continue forever. I have to change myself - the way I think, the constant anxiety and the enabling. I need to concentrate on other things. When I first put him out, I concentrated on getting fitter at the gym and doing up my house. It’s just the past 5 weeks have been so awful - the evictions etc. I have worked as a mental health nurse for all of my adult life and have dealt with so many difficult and traumatic situations, you’d think I would know how to deal with my own son but in reality I don’t, it is so much more difficult when love and emotions are involved. People at work and friends who know about the problems I’m having have told me how resilient I am and how well I cope. When I took up a mindfulness course, my daughter asked me why and said I was one of the calmest people she had ever met. On the outside, I appear very strong but in reality I’m not which is why I found this forum and why I have posted so much and been so honest about my weaknesses (I even find it hard to do confidentially) - I guess I found it very therapeutic and was looking for guidance. [/QUOTE]
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