Dear Jesse Thine:

I read both your short posts.

In this one you wrote: “I refuse to feel negative emotions”- if only we could successfully refuse to feel painful (aka negative) emotions. Oh, how wonderful that would be, to be free from pain, free from distress and discomfort. Unfortunately, this is only possible very short term, at best.

You wrote: “Any time something negative comes up in my life I try my hardest to force indifference upon the subject. I pretend not to care… my only solution is to not care.”- I tried that too, unsuccessfully. There two solutions: to refuse negative emotions and to not care are not effective solutions; they simply don’t work.

You wrote that you spent a lot of time googling- what have you been googling?

anita