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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: In a DARK corner.... not looking for a way out.
Posts: 5,526
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Elder
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: In a DARK corner.... not looking for a way out.
Posts: 5,526
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Originally Posted by MandaC
PLEASE abbie, tell me how you dealt with friends saying those things to you?
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Hi Manda...
At first I ignored my friends saying these things and went on as if nothing had happened... I mellowed out for a while then was back leaning on my friends even harder. I was to blinded by life to see how I was affecting theirs.
I didn't understand that my friends weren't able to help me... I always thought that I could talk to my friends and they would be able to "fix" me.
I realize now that I was sooo wrong. Not in a bad way, but I was wrong for thinking my friends could help when they weren't trained as a Counsellor or a Psychiatrist.
I didn't think I needed Professional help but I did!! I was sprialling down quickly and didn't even know it.
About a year ago things went from bad to worse at such a fast pace that if something didn't happen, If I didn't get help... something was bad going to happen.
I didn't seek help on my own.... One of my friends asked me to contact one of my other friends... I did and was told... you have an appoinment with at a local mental health place... It's your choice, go or we are out of your life.
I wasn't going to go on my own... my friends knew this... I can't recall exactly what happened but I ended up at the appointment with one of my friends taking me there and sitting through the whole 3 hour appointment with me.
I didn't speak to my friends for several weeks to months....
I now understand why my friends couldn't help me.
I LOVE my friends for doing what they did.... things had to be done the way they were done, had to be said the way things were said.... I don't believe I would have gotten the help I didn't want or felt I needed with out my friends.
Sometimes tough love is the best love there is......
Abbie
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Last edited by Abbie; 06-10-2009 at 06:35 PM.
Reason: typos... doh.
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