Dear greenshade:

I don’t have advice for you on this specific topic. I will say this though: other than my mother (the origin of my abusive internal critic, aka Inner Bully, as I call it), no “external walking talking versions of that voice” in my life was even close in viciousness and relentlessness to my Inner Bully. So, in your position, I think I would be glad to be around these lesser versions, if it meant that I got a break from the original.

anita