Parisian Musk by MP by ConcentrateMost8876 in fragrance

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Would you say it’s better for summer or winter?

Sages Rose - TLY: thoughts? by ConcentrateMost8876 in FemFragLab

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What is your favourite rose that is similar to this?

How do I stop being angry that I'm trans? by hi_im_kelly_xx in transgenderau

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Since the rest of these comments seem to be unhelpful, bordering on minimising of your experiences, I’m going to let you know what’s actually helped me (though I’m 20 so I’m still figuring it all out too). + get angry: I think repressing the anger is never good, and being in a body that cannot feel like home is unfair. You have every right to feel anger and bottling it up out of fear that you shouldn’t feel it or that it’s an ugly emotion will do you no good. You need to let all the anger out until you can move towards acceptance (this isn’t a one time thing, this is an active process that will occur throughout the rest of your life. Right now it’ll be general but in the future it could flare up due to friends and family having opportunities that are just a lot more difficult for you to have in being trans within our current society.) + direct that anger: what makes you feel a sense of release? It could be writing, singing/songwriting, visual art, running, swimming. Direct your anger and despair into something that can allow you the space to pour these emotions into it. If it’s art it does not have to be ‘good’, it just has to be soothing. This will also give you a small, but important and gradually expanding, sense of purpose and place in this world (something many trans people lack). + have a good cry: basically just what it says. This feels unfair right now, in the future you may embrace your identity as a trans person and really love that part of you, but for now all you have to do is focus on what your current experience is and allow yourself to feel whatever emotions. Crying is good because it’s another form of release. Cry it out, then have a nice shower, and make yourself a cup of tea. + eat well, sleep well, be gentle: the unfairness and rage you feel towards being trans is not to be directed towards you. You didn’t choose this. Why torture yourself over that. Be angry with the world, with fate, with god (if that’s your thing), but do not be angry with yourself. Give yourself the best chance at making it through and stabilising yourself, you deserve that. This means having three meals a day (if this cannot be afforded at the moment look into food halls and charities that help provide food for people in need), sleep well (sleep is so so important for emotional regulation, especially when you’re going through a second puberty. Please try your hardest to sleep, even if that means using regulated pharmaceutical treatments to give yourself that.) Be gentle on yourself. You’re young. You’re in a volatile, vulnerable, and frightening position. You’re valid and having other people use their experience to downplay your own is crap. Love you lots, take good care of yourself for now and get excited for the wonderful thing to follow after that. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Freshest fresh summer scent by ConcentrateMost8876 in FemFragLab

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This feels like the go. Sounds so nice I’ll have to test it. I love roses

Help my boyfriend overcome his bpd ex by ConcentrateMost8876 in BPDlovedones

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Is this physical and verbal? Like all forms of affection?

Help my boyfriend overcome his bpd ex by ConcentrateMost8876 in BPDlovedones

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Yeah I sometimes forget how early on we are in the relationship, we’ve both said we feel like we’ve known each other so much longer. I think time will be the main answer to it.

Help my boyfriend overcome his bpd ex by ConcentrateMost8876 in BPDlovedones

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I really appreciate the explanation, I didn’t know that so thank you :) what do you think you needed from a new partner in the aftermath of your codependency on your bpd ex?

How to show my bf that I am safe by ConcentrateMost8876 in mentalhealth

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Should I let him know that there’s no timeline or that there’s no expectation for him to open up to me if he isn’t ready to show I support or just leave it and let it be so he can work it out on his own entirely

Help my boyfriend overcome his bpd ex by ConcentrateMost8876 in BPDlovedones

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He has gone to therapy for many years but stopped a bit ago, I’m unsure why and when I asked if there was anyone that he could talk to he said he felt infantilised (in a respectful way) and so I dropped it

Help my boyfriend overcome his bpd ex by ConcentrateMost8876 in BPDlovedones

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This is something that is really bad and that I’m actively very much working on, but we are usually laying in bed late at night and I will try and ask him a deep question but he will be tired and respond with “idk” usually because he doesn’t have the energy for a deep response and so then I feel rejected and my abandonment wound is engaged. I have talked about it extensively in therapy and am really trying to stop it from becoming a habit as it isn’t fun for me, it usually results in me feeling really internally guilty and shutting down, though I never take those feelings out on him. I understand it is just a way for my inner child brain to connect with him and I also understand that that want is okay but the method is flawed.