Dear J:

Competent psychotherapy is the best place to work on changing core beliefs (“I am inadequate”). Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), I think, is best suited for this.

Life might not be “fun and vibrant” again, like it was when you were a young child. The reason is that a child’s mind and life is full of magic and innocence, that is no longer available for an adult: you can’t get back the brain that you had as a child.

All you can do is make your life better than it is now, correcting core beliefs, grieving past hurts (that hurt in the present, as our past exists now in our brain as … very present neuropathways.

I may answer another thread or two and be back to the computer in ten, twelve hours or so.

Take care, post again, and you are welcome.

anita