Hi again everyone,

I wanna thank you all for your help! I’m feeling quite a bit better about all of this, and if I ever get to a rough patch again, I’ll probably look through your words for confidence. Today was a pretty good day, and every good day helps a little bit with my confidence and feeling of success. So here’s hoping that it’ll get a little easier every day. Like I said, they’re very rarely debilitating like they used to be; now, they’re more annoying than anything.

monklet80, I think your advice will help me a lot – like I said in one of my other posts, it’s easy to say that we understand advice, but hard to really internalize it. Your words about acting as bored as possible, I think, will really help to shrink the thoughts down to what they really are: just thoughts. After all, if I can’t remember what I was thinking at exactly this moment three days ago, why should I let these thoughts have any more impact on me, right?

You are all lovely people, and again, thank you so much for advice. Here’s hoping for every day to be a little better!