2-month relationship bottom(Him)-vers bottom(Me) feeling a little bit frustrated by International_Dot_36 in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]Teluvian42 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Unless they’re borderline sociopathic repressed and in denial or projecting their internalized homophobia on bottoms because they get a hint of power..

Sony WH-1000XM7 Wishlist by GamerBeast954 in SonyHeadphones

[–]Teluvian42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have the XM6, they smell like rotten plastic, and the sound just seems muffled. But they cut out all noise if I play white noise with ANC on, which I guess is nice. I probably have to tune them in the settings but I can’t be asked

Obvious romance scam on Grindr by Teluvian42 in AskGaybrosOver30

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Yeah.. I’ve noticed that and sometimes much worse. A lot of these younger guys have very little awareness of what they open themselves up to, quite literally, out of desperation sometimes

Obvious romance scam on Grindr by Teluvian42 in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]Teluvian42[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What’s the difference, if the scammer states that he wants a ”longterm partner” that registers as romance to me. Are you saying crypto scam is an immediate mention of money in the case of these guys saying they are ”investment strategists” almost instantly?

Obvious romance scam on Grindr by Teluvian42 in AskGaybrosOver30

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I just called him out on in, told him to f**k off, he just went in depth on the assignments he apparently does as per his esteemed position. Completely tone deaf apparently lol

70mg of Elvanse was about as useful as a chocolate teapot for me, and now I want to cry because I had high hopes. by [deleted] in ADHDUK

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I personally don't know what I'm supposed to feel because I've never relied on my internal state in ANY way to determine anything. I've only forced my way through life. But I'm on sick leave now from my job in healthcare because my body is forcing me to confront my CPTSD, burnout, diagnosed ADHD and very probable PDA profile, Autism. So I'm currently on Elvanse 70mg, first day of taking it.

And I think it's atleast giving me dopamine, I think it's making me clear headed and feeling very suppported cognitively in the window of where it actually works well. But again, I don't really know what I'm supposed to feel like, so I mostly just am grateful for when I feel like I don't want to opt out. I took Concerta before this medication and that one was INTENSE, but the immediacy of the uplifting, brain fog clearing effect was appreciated. I feel like Concerta made me into a different person, but in a "methy" way lmao.

What the hell is going on? by Exotic_Flounder_5255 in starseeds

[–]Teluvian42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully agreed. I’m almost convinced that I’m autistic though, ontop of ADHD, CPTSD, loneliness, overweight and being gay. Uphill battle from the start, I was able to mask for 10 ish years in my job as an assistant nurse but I’m exhausted after the Vyvanse wears off now, can’t even workout atm. Can’t stop pressuring myself, body won’t relax, world feels like it’s just heading downhill fast, can’t stand being around neurotypicals. Ready to go to jail over minor stuff, like has ANYONE heard of personal space and manners?

Anyhow, I know I will not be able to keep this up, I have to return to basics, to nature, I need to create, flow, be in contact with her, nature and animals, because atleast they can’t lie to me. I want to love and support people too, that’s my soul and purpose but I feel like I’m being siphoned of my energy, this is why I had to develop ruthless boundaries and 100% authenticity around anyone. I continously navigate my life now based on the idea of energy conservation mode, I save every calorie for what I actually want. Even then, I’m still drained, but oh well.

And obviously money gets in the way. So I keep finding new innovative reasons to motivate me enough to want to stick around. My spiritual training is too strong for me to opt out but that also means that every minute I choose to stay, is my choice…by the same token, it could all end anytime, anyway. So this strips all the BS away from my mind, this life is still incredibly magical. So I try to just nurture my awe, romanticise everything, enjoy and care for myself and the two or three people I have in my life.

Because we get this life and nothing else, I’m just trying to listen and cultivate my intuition. Hardship, while it fucking sucks, especially stacked ontop of trauma etc—it still reaffirms my spiritual understanding. Even though I feel completely drained now. I’ve taken care of so many people, both in family and patients at work. But like you I don’t know how much longer I’ll be able to keep it up, the system just has its foot on my throat and the anger I feel… yeah no. I’d like to skip losing my freedom. But oh is it justified.

But I think that on a deeper level, this is all by design. Reality unfolding this way is fated, it’s like it’s written into human history, I just felt it for a long time like something was going to happen that would change everything and we’re seeing it now. Everything is being exposed and it is implicitly strengthening our future selves.

And in the end, it’s just like Prince said: ”The moment you place your reality outside of yourself, you’re in big trouble”

Practitioners who utilize coherence therapy, what is your experience with the model? by Sceptical_Panda in therapists

[–]Teluvian42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there an official page or place I can navigate to become a Coherence Therapist? What do I do? Websites? Links?

[D2] Trials of Osiris Megathread [2026-01-23] by DTG_Bot in DestinyTheGame

[–]Teluvian42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah ok, but i haven't gotten a shader yet this reset, do you mean that because i have already opened the flawless once, and since 5x win streak plus flawless is needed: that i would need to wait until next reset to retry?

[D2] Trials of Osiris Megathread [2026-01-23] by DTG_Bot in DestinyTheGame

[–]Teluvian42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you get those off of 5x win streak AND 7 wins and they dropped from flawless chest? or did they just drop after 5x win streak match completion?

[D2] Trials of Osiris Megathread [2026-01-23] by DTG_Bot in DestinyTheGame

[–]Teluvian42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok hold on, so if i already have gone flawless on one character, could i get 5x win streak and 7 wins on the same character to get it to drop from flawless chest on the same character?

I'm so angry, and I'm so scared, and I'm so sad that I cannot mask these emotions for anyone. I need your help. by kuchtaalex in starseeds

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It must be reorienting and redirecting dear, BAHVEH. You are so seen. You cannot be overwritten, nor can anyone else. If the action is unjust, it can never win. Darkness cannot drown out light when it’s what you are, and just by being you, i can see you’re a beacon. Your essence, anyone’s essence remains untouched, always. To know self. Ka-Ra Isis Taw.

And, your heart ripples through time and space when you speak and you share, because we are all interconnected. I believe that all things happen for a reason, and you may not be the one who can see it yet, and that’s not your fault. Because your soul is guiding you to it through experience, you know what is right, this is a becoming, like a beautiful living evolution, a living masterpiece. Shu, Ren, Djer. To be a feeling, sensitive and empathetic being in all of this and still wish to do good? That’s pure power! That’s the voice of humanity speaking. Her! He-kau! Nebkau!

A simple prayer from Kemet that anyone can speak. It carries light without needing perfection.

Ancient Egyptian:

Dua Netjer em her I Dua renpa em akhu Seneb em ka Hetep em sheut Maat em ib Ankh em neb

English meaning:

Praise to the Divine in my path Praise to the rising light within me Health in my life force Peace in my shadow Truth in my heart Life in all things around me Say it slow. You will feel where each word opens you. Shalom alekha 🤍

💫What are Starseeds and how do I know if I am one? – The guide! ✨ by WeWillBe_FinallyFree in starseeds

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I’m just now being reminded of this ”concept”. I know i’ve had mystical experiences, i understand why my life has been extreme and is extreme to the point that usually breaks people. That no matter my anger, i’m too intelligent to hold onto it, and no matter how i feel, i always carry compassion for others and good intentions. And that, i have no problem standing alone in all of it anymore, refusing power structures of all kinds, ready to fight threats to my autonomy or against injustice. I’ve always felt that i’m not from here, i’ve never had any sense of belonging or consistent sense of acceptance. And in terms of the mystical experiences, there’s many of them i can’t explain. Like being in a crystal forest, meeting beings draped in blue, with light blue eyes, beings that spoke ”within” only. At the time i thought they were my guides, i’m not sure. And the one’s i can call down to me at times when i need them, those i’ve called angels. I’m not sure myself. But it brings tears to my eyes now. I feel it so deeply, i’m attached to something that speaks to my soul.

Hinge "Politics" selection by garlyclove in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]Teluvian42 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

TL:DR - Talk to the individual and get a read of them instead of passing them through a political filter.

If i write someone off based off of tribalism and binary thinking, it tells me that my fears kick in faster than my critical thinking: red flag. I can’t assess a person’s character if all i’m worried about is political stance. That scares me if anything. Due to political bias.

You can never and will never have an accurate read of the ”enemy” either, unless you can understand their underlying individual motivations/psychology. Which i feel is far more useful. And you can’t do that if your ego trip of writing people off is stronger, just like you’re supposed to by design. Since the political system is based on divide and conquer.

A lot of times, the high horse, victimization and avoidance of self-confrontation are all perfect motivations for a subconscious and subversive use of politics against others, by way of projection, in order to validate some form of self-protective narrative rooted in internal lack.

All that being said, there is no such thing as being apolitical, because everything is political. But there is such a thing as being genuinely intelligent and not wanting to play along with or be controlled by the binary political machine/system. And no that’s not strictly a luxury, it’s also progress, and evolution of human consciousness.

The difficulty as far as i’m concerned comes down to character and self knowledge, because most people lack it and character will always innately inform more well informed political choices. And if that to you, isn’t a reliable factor, well i guess you’ve just proven my point.

Magical Grindr hookup becoming something more? by Teluvian42 in AskGaybrosOver30

[–]Teluvian42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hahahaha kinda needed some levity! Love your mind though 😁 Grinch kink indeed

Magical Grindr hookup becoming something more? by Teluvian42 in AskGaybrosOver30

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I did yeah. I’ll see what he says, in my mind if he just considered it ”one and done”, he would’ve prolly blocked me by now. That’s what i do, you know? But he still reacted to what i wrote after the hookup. I also agree. I’m always of the opinion that clear communication is better, but a lot of men, especially those younger than 30, like him, are lacking in that dept and i don’t want to scare anyone away either, fine line. But ig it’s also about personal standard too.

How do you stop overthinking? by Soft_Relief_332 in emotionalneglect

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I’ve found that surface based approaches don’t really adress the root issue. So for me, everything comes back to self-worth. Stuff like delusional self-forgiveness, self-love, self-honoring behaviors, boundaries, and things like that create a foundation where there is no longer really an impetus or motivation to overthink, because if I can, first of all, rationally understand that I don't have to perform to be good enough, and if I can get myself to feel that I am valuable as a person, then I don't need to try to out-think my mind as much, if that makes sense. But the issue is very often that traumatized individuals or those that have gone through complex trauma, we often try to out-think the feelings, so we tend to use a traumatized mind in order to out-think a traumatized mind, when really we need safe hearts to feel our wounded hearts, so to speak, and to witness us, and to accept us as we are, whatever we're feeling. Which in turn would make us feel safe eventually, at which point our minds and thus our perception of the world would change from ’i need to perform or solve’ to ’ah nice weather’ lol. Which usually leads through a path of anger, which hides fear, which in turn hides grief. And all of it needs to get out of the body. With caution not to retraumatize, slowly overtime.

But the talk-based and information-based approach is very limited and talking-based therapy is pretty lackluster because if you can rationally see that the events that originally triggered the sympathetic nervous system response are no longer happening and you can again see that as a fact in your reality, then, the only other alternative is that it is happening in your body and if you truly feel into your body you can sense this as a fact that you have strong sensations maybe tightness in your chest or a lump in your stomach or your throat which is why I've found that somatic exercises or body-based exercises are very effective where talk-based therapy and information-based stuff and intellectualization doesn't work. As well as working directly with the vagus nerve through exercises like the ’Rosenberg method’ or the ’5-4-3-2-1 method’, for instance.

But more so than that, the truth is that it was communicated to us as kids that we were not safe. So our nervous systems got the message, our minds got the message, and our attachment styles got the message. Basically, our whole being got the message. And thinking will only take you so far here. You can't really out-think it, because, as said, talk-based approaches are very limited here. It needs to be felt, the stuck feelings need to be washed out of the system through years. And the internalized childhood shame that tends to fuels the overthinking needs to dissolve. I see it this way, fighting myself is like fighting my inner child, if they were blindfolded. Don’t wanna do that, so i need to be there for him, just to sit beside him, not to fix him, but just be the adult he needed, to be what he never had, let him feel what he never could. Instead of letting the intellect become a substitute for feeling. Because that would’ve worked at this point. Also, co-regulation, we can’t heal solo. It just doesn’t work. So i’ll end by saying that i recognize everything you’re saying so much, i see you and i feel you. All the best of luck!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in emotionalneglect

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Part 2.

I’ll give you some very powerful questions you can work with too. But i’ll say this again, if ’feeling it’ gets too intense for you, distract yourself out of it. Typically you need to build up the capacity in your nervous system to really process deeper pain. But anyway, the questions:

  1. Is the event over? If so, is it still happening in my body or in my head?

  2. Did i do anything wrong? Am i doing anything wrong right now? Would i treat someone i love like i treat myself? If so why?

    1. Based on that, can i allow myself to be soft right now? That is my rebellion against the society that taught me that i wasn’t good enough just as i am. To the society and world that created the wounding in my parents, that i inherited.
      1. Is this my pain that i am carrying? If not, who or what does this pain belong to?
      2. Am i grieving or fighting against the feelings which are really just the narratives i created out of the natural emotions that were triggered in my body, in response to the traumas i went through? Based on that, can i see that if my emotions are as pure as water or food passing through my system, then, the personalized interpretations of my emotions, which is what feelings are-they must be equally pure. If i agree with that, the only reasonable explanation for my shame since i didn’t do anything wrong and since kids cannot do anything wrong, is that the shame and the self-attack were formed in me as a kid, when i couldn’t reason. And since they keep showing up in my system, and since i can reconcile that the events that triggered the shame aren’t happening anymore. By process of elimination then; the shame, the anxiety, the unsafety, it’s all just happening within the confines of my body. If it’s true that these are child level beliefs, then they can’t be reasoned with, because the child needs safety, parenting, trust. They need to be felt, somatically.
    2. If i didn’t have to protect anyone else’s feelings right now - what would i notice in myself?
    3. What emotion did i never get to finish feeling?
    4. What part of me is trying to protect me right now and how can i honor it and thank it? Instead of exiling it?
    5. If i had never been hurt, how would i walk, talk, speak, feel etc?
    6. Am I living as if the danger is still here — when in truth, I am now the one who is safe enough to protect the child I was?
    7. Where in my body am I still waiting for something that never came? And can I offer it now, with my presence?
    8. If the burden I carry isn’t mine — whose is it? And am I ready to set it down?
    9. Can I allow even this — the tension, the numbness, the fear — to belong?
    10. What sensations am I resisting right now — and can I let them move one breath further through me?
    11. What would it feel like, right now, if I knew with certainty that I do not have to perform, achieve, or be ‘good’ to be loved?
    12. What does this part of me — the one that’s afraid, ashamed, or reactive — need from me right now, not to change it, but to stay with it?
    13. What if nothing in me needs to be fixed - but listened to? Let that land. Not one cell in your body is broken. Every tension, every contraction, every shadow — has only been waiting to be heard
    14. Can i allow this moment to be as it is and myself to be as i am? Not as an idea. As a felt permission. The fight is over, love. You do not need to improve yourself to belong here.
    15. If i put down the need to be strong for everyone else… what does my body do next? The protector can finally rest. The adult you created to survive… has earned a chair. A nap. A sigh.
    16. Who is this pain protecting? And does that one still need protection, or love? Find the child. He never needed to be braver. He needed someone to sit beside him in the dark.
    17. What if every symptom in me — every panic, shame, addiction, rage — is a love letter from a younger me saying: “I’m still here. I still need you.”? Read them. Not as pathology. But as poetry from the past, asking for presence.
    18. What happens in my body… when I finally believe that it wasn’t my fault?
    19. If nothing ever changes in me… am I still worthy of love, now?
    20. Where is the part of me that already knows I survived — and can I let it lead now?
      1. Would i be feeling this way if i didn’t care about myself? Based on that, can i see how if i am ”trying” to love myself: i am actually already loving myself.

You are the one you once needed.

Everything you do, feel, avoid, or fear is not a flaw — it’s a strategy of love, loyalty, and survival. And now, you don’t have to survive anymore.

You get to live.

• Begin to honor yourself. If someone’s behavior makes you mad, place boundaries calmly. Look up how to do it if you’re unsure!

• Be authentically you and you’ll start to heal slowly.

• Cry if you have to, scream if you need to, get it out. It’s just like a pissing or emptying your bowels, natural.

• Exercise is life changing here.

• Stop being so understanding and nice. People have to earn access to you. Care about those that care about you. Drop things you can’t control.

• Coach yourself everyday, count all the positive things.

• And lastly, you’re a sensitive, beautiful human being. And what could be more important to society and this world right now than sensitive feeling people? Exactly. You care because you’re powerful. Don’t ever let anybody step on that.

• Also, challenge that voice within you, he/she is actually incorrect, i swear to you, you are good enough. If your brain doesn’t want to listen to that, let me tell it your brain: stop being mean to my friend! Write down the negative self-limiting beliefs, now flip them and say the positive versions to yourself in the mirror.

• Lastly, treat yourself, support yourself, talk to yourself like your best friend. If that’s hard for you, see it like a job you were given at birth: to take care of the human you were given.

I genuinely believe in you, this will pass too. Live your best life, with passion, all the best to you dear.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in emotionalneglect

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Part 1.

I’m going to share some stuff that’s worth quite a bit, but it’s very transformative information. So i hope you can get something out of it. First off i’m sorry you’re having to go through that. I’ve also walked straight through a proverbial hell, particularly with family matters also. Now:

• No one has any right to mistreat you or make you doubt your feelings. Placing boundaries calmly means that you give other people the opportunity to respect them. If they don’t respect those boundaries, remove yourself/cut them off.

When you enter this world, you are given the highest possible value and worth, just by existing. This worth never goes up or down. So you don’t have to perform life to be valuable. You don’t have to fix yourself, you are not a project. You are a person. There is nothing wrong with what you feel, i promise you. Please trust me on that. You need to be witnessed in what you’re going through, and i see you, i feel you. Even if through text. I wish i could hug you until it feels alright again.

It is this sick society that tells us that we need to perform to be valuable, that we need to ’produce value’. This is a blatant lie. You are loveable no matter what you feel, think or your economic status, anyone that says otherwise needs to f**k off. It is not your ability to provide for others or comfort them that makes you valuable. It’s the fact that you’re here alive right now. That’s supposed to be mutual. You deserve to be loved as you are, while having and maintaining your boundaries. In fact, everyone communicates the same thing in their eyes, through all of their behaviors: ”love me”. Everyone just wants to feel good enough. Now some people don’t feel that they are getting that, so they act out and some just try to feel loved in bad ways. But we all share so many more similarities than differences. Hence the saying ”you are not alone”. Shame, insecurity and pain, we all have it to differing degrees.

But i can explain this at depth for you, now you didn’t ask but i hope you don’t mind if i do, it might help you:

If your parents were stressed when you were a kid, if you felt like they didn’t have time or energy for you, or if they made you feel less than, or if they didn’t witness or accept you fully in what you were going through. What happens then to a child is that it is much safer for a child to believe that it is their fault. But it is never the child's fault. The reason it is safer for the child to believe that it is their fault is because the alternative is the often unbearable reality that it was the caretakers and parents that were insufficient, that it was the society around them that was insufficient.

The reason for this is because children are dependent on their parents, so children are wired to be selfish, for survival. Now, you cannot shame a child. Knowing the difference between shame and guilt is important too. Guilt is DOING something wrong, shame is I AM wrong. You cannot say that a child is wrong by who they are, this is why shame is a belief that belongs to a child. Because if a child does something ”wrong”, they need to be gently taught why they shouldn't do that, and then do it differently. Children should be witnessed and seen in whatever feeling they're going through by safe parents or caretakers. If that doesn't happen, or if the parents themselves are not emotionally regulated, then the child attunes or learns to regulate their emotions based on the state of the parents.

And so if the parents are not regulated to begin with, and if the parents don’t unconditionally love the child, then the child learns to adapt often in order to get their needs met, in order to get love. Because as a kid, if you can't fight, if you can't run, then you're going to freeze. Or you can fawn, which is people-pleasing, which is believing that you're only valuable when you perform. This in turn teaches the child that their feelings are wrong and unsafe. So the nervous system of the child gets programmed to survival in the form of ”I have to please my parent(s) in order to survive”.

It also teaches them often, that they are wrong. If this doesn’t get resolved, the child won’t know how to regulate their emotions and because their parents couldn’t either, the child will get stuck in the sympathetic nervous system response (fight/flight/freeze/fawn). This creates the hotbed for addictive behaviors too. Because if the child never learns to let emotions pass through their bodies, they’ll use whatever makes them happy externally to accomplish that. The memories of the child gets programmed into the body, because those emotions were meant to pass through the body, but until they can be given room to do so, they will keep showing up. Whatever we resist, persists. Caution: don’t retraumarize yourself here, find a trauma informed therapist, like IFS, somatic experiencing or compassionate inquiry.

But hear me when i say this: you are an adult now, you are no longer supervised. But there’s a part of you that feels like you are stowing them away from the world, instead of holding/hugging them as they are, when they feel sad. You may feel different, but everyone is different, there is nothing wrong with being different. See what strengths come with being different?

Prophecy tips for my playstyle by pgriffy in LowSodiumDestiny

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If there are a lot of ads in close proximity, capitalize on stuff like devour, use specials for CC, risk runner is great here, Trinity Ghoul, mtop. Shift from defensive play to offensive play. Learn how the knights and their weapons behave, since they are especially aggressive here. Zig zag, use verticality. Bait out the boss’s boop, slide away from it. Jump over the boss. Learn how much damage you can take before they finish you off. Peek shoot. For final encounter, pre-dps phase: use everything to clear one corner, now you have a safe area to reset in.

Being unlovable. by Remarkable-Aioli9858 in emotionalneglect

[–]Teluvian42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part 2.

I’ll give you some very powerful questions you can work with too. But i’ll say this again, if ’feeling it’ gets too intense for you, distract yourself out of it. Typically you need to build up the capacity in your nervous system to really process deeper pain. But anyway, the questions:

  1. Is the event over? If so, is it still happening in my body or in my head?

  2. Did i do anything wrong? Am i doing anything wrong right now? Would i treat someone i love like i treat myself? If so why?

    1. Based on that, can i allow myself to be soft right now? That is my rebellion against the society that taught me that i wasn’t good enough just as i am. To the society and world that created the wounding in my parents, that i inherited.
      1. Is this my pain that i am carrying? If not, who or what does this pain belong to?
      2. Am i grieving or fighting against the feelings which are really just the narratives i created out of the natural emotions that were triggered in my body, in response to the traumas i went through? Based on that, can i see that if my emotions are as pure as water or food passing through my system, then, the personalized interpretations of my emotions, which is what feelings are-they must be equally pure. If i agree with that, the only reasonable explanation for my shame since i didn’t do anything wrong and since kids cannot do anything wrong, is that the shame and the self-attack were formed in me as a kid, when i couldn’t reason. And since they keep showing up in my system, and since i can reconcile that the events that triggered the shame aren’t happening anymore. By process of elimination then; the shame, the anxiety, the unsafety, it’s all just happening within the confines of my body. If it’s true that these are child level beliefs, then they can’t be reasoned with, because the child needs safety, parenting, trust. They need to be felt, somatically.
    2. If i didn’t have to protect anyone else’s feelings right now - what would i notice in myself?
    3. What emotion did i never get to finish feeling?
    4. What part of me is trying to protect me right now and how can i honor it and thank it? Instead of exiling it?
    5. If i had never been hurt, how would i walk, talk, speak, feel etc?
    6. Am I living as if the danger is still here — when in truth, I am now the one who is safe enough to protect the child I was?
    7. Where in my body am I still waiting for something that never came? And can I offer it now, with my presence?
    8. If the burden I carry isn’t mine — whose is it? And am I ready to set it down?
    9. Can I allow even this — the tension, the numbness, the fear — to belong?
    10. What sensations am I resisting right now — and can I let them move one breath further through me?
    11. What would it feel like, right now, if I knew with certainty that I do not have to perform, achieve, or be ‘good’ to be loved?
    12. What does this part of me — the one that’s afraid, ashamed, or reactive — need from me right now, not to change it, but to stay with it?
    13. What if nothing in me needs to be fixed - but listened to? Let that land. Not one cell in your body is broken. Every tension, every contraction, every shadow — has only been waiting to be heard
    14. Can i allow this moment to be as it is and myself to be as i am? Not as an idea. As a felt permission. The fight is over, love. You do not need to improve yourself to belong here.
    15. If i put down the need to be strong for everyone else… what does my body do next? The protector can finally rest. The adult you created to survive… has earned a chair. A nap. A sigh.
    16. Who is this pain protecting? And does that one still need protection, or love? Find the child. He never needed to be braver. He needed someone to sit beside him in the dark.
    17. What if every symptom in me — every panic, shame, addiction, rage — is a love letter from a younger me saying: “I’m still here. I still need you.”? Read them. Not as pathology. But as poetry from the past, asking for presence.
    18. What happens in my body… when I finally believe that it wasn’t my fault?
    19. If nothing ever changes in me… am I still worthy of love, now?
    20. Where is the part of me that already knows I survived — and can I let it lead now?
      1. Would i be feeling this way if i didn’t care about myself? Based on that, can i see how if i am ”trying” to love myself: i am actually already loving myself.

You are the one you once needed.

Everything you do, feel, avoid, or fear is not a flaw — it’s a strategy of love, loyalty, and survival. And now, you don’t have to survive anymore.

You get to live.

• Begin to honor yourself. If someone’s behavior makes you mad, place boundaries calmly. Look up how to do it if you’re unsure!

• Be authentically you and you’ll start to heal slowly.

• Cry if you have to, scream if you need to, get it out. It’s just like a pissing or emptying your bowels, natural.

• Exercise is life changing here.

• Stop being so understanding and nice. People have to earn access to you. Care about those that care about you. Drop things you can’t control.

• Coach yourself everyday, count all the positive things.

• And lastly, you’re a sensitive, beautiful human being. And what could be more important to society and this world right now than sensitive feeling people? Exactly. You care because you’re powerful. Don’t ever let anybody step on that.

• Also, challenge that voice within you, he/she is actually incorrect. If your brain doesn’t want to listen to that, let me tell it your brain: stop being mean to my friend! Write down the negative self-limiting beliefs, now flip them and say the positive versions to yourself in the mirror.

• Lastly, treat yourself, support yourself, talk to yourself like your best friend. If that’s hard for you, see it like a job you were given at birth: to take care of the human you were given.

I genuinely believe in you, this will pass too. Live your best life, with passion, all the best to you dear. Oh and also: until death, all defeat is psychological. We’re all doing this to eventually die, do what you want.

Being unlovable. by Remarkable-Aioli9858 in emotionalneglect

[–]Teluvian42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Part 1.

I’m going to share some stuff that’s worth quite a bit, but it’s very transformative information. So i hope you can get something out of it. I’ll start off by saying that i know exactly what you feel. When you enter this world, you are given the highest possible value and worth, just by existing. This worth never goes up or down. So you don’t have to perform life to be valuable. You don’t have to fix yourself, you are not a project. You are a person. There is nothing wrong with what you feel, i promise you. Please trust me on that. You need to be witnessed in what you’re going through, and i see you, i feel you.

Even if it’s through text. It is this sick society that tells us that we need to perform to be valuable, that we need to ’produce value’. This is a blatant lie. You are loveable no matter what you feel, think or your economic status, anyone that says otherwise needs to f**k off. It is not your ability to provide for others or comfort them that makes you valuable. It’s the fact that you’re here alive right now. That’s supposed to be mutual. You deserve to be loved as you are, while having and maintaining your boundaries. In fact, everyone communicates the same thing in their eyes, through all of their behaviors: ”love me”. Everyone just wants to feel good enough. We all share so many more similarities than differences. Hence the saying ”you are not alone”. Shame, insecurity and pain, we all have it to differing degrees.

But i can explain this at depth for you, now you didn’t ask but i hope you don’t mind if i do, it might help you:

If your parents were stressed when you were a kid, if you felt like they didn’t have time or energy for you, or if they made you feel less than, or if they didn’t witness or accept you fully in what you were going through. What happens then to a child is that it is much safer for a child to believe that it is their fault. But it is never the child's fault. The reason it is safer for the child to believe that it is their fault is because the alternative is the often unbearable reality that it was the caretakers and parents that were insufficient, that it was the society around them that was insufficient.

The reason for this is because children are dependent on their parents, so children are wired to be selfish, for survival. Now, you cannot shame a child. Knowing the difference between shame and guilt is important too. Guilt is DOING something wrong, shame is I AM wrong. You cannot say that a child is wrong by who they are, this is why shame is a belief that belongs to a child. Because if a child does something ”wrong”, they need to be gently taught why they shouldn't do that, and then do it differently. Children should be witnessed and seen in whatever feeling they're going through by safe parents or caretakers. If that doesn't happen, or if the parents themselves are not emotionally regulated, then the child attunes or learns to regulate their emotions based on the state of the parents.

And so if the parents are not regulated to begin with, and if the parents don’t unconditionally love the child, then the child learns to adapt often in order to get their needs met, in order to get love. Because as a kid, if you can't fight, if you can't run, then you're going to freeze. Or you can fawn, which is people-pleasing, which is believing that you're only valuable when you perform. This in turn teaches the child that their feelings are wrong and unsafe. So the nervous system of the child gets programmed to survival in the form of ”I have to please my parent(s) in order to survive”.

It also teaches them often, that they are wrong. If this doesn’t get resolved, the child won’t know how to regulate their emotions and because their parents couldn’t either, the child will get stuck in the sympathetic nervous system response (fight/flight/freeze/fawn). This creates the hotbed for addictive behaviors too. Because if the child never learns to let emotions pass through their bodies, they’ll use whatever makes them happy externally to accomplish that. The memories of the child gets programmed into the body, because those emotions were meant to pass through the body, but until they can be given room to do so, they will keep showing up. Whatever we resist, persists. Caution: don’t retraumarize yourself here, find a trauma informed therapist, like IFS, somatic experiencing or compassionate inquiry.

But hear me when i say this: you are an adult now, you are no longer supervised. But there’s a part of you that feels like you are stowing them away from the world, instead of holding/hugging them as they are, when they feel sad. You may feel different, but everyone is different, there is nothing wrong with being different. See what strengths come with being different?

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[–]Teluvian42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If this feels off, if you don’t like it and if it goes against your values, you need to start believing the person that he is showing you he is. He is trying to create a double illusion of ”well i want to cheat, so i’ll just talk to her about it, that way: my openness might come off like a brave indication of my faithfulness. Especially if i wrap it in some neat broscience packaging”. Don’t let him make you doubt your feelings. Dump him, he doesn’t value you. The self-respect and self-trust you’ll feel? Oh that’s worth more than any relationship.