Dear SallyDaisy:

“I fear that underneath the anxiety, there’s no person there. It’s just a void”.

No, it is not a void, I am sure of that.

“I told my Mum but she thought I was making a big deal  out of nothing. She thinks I’m a b*&* and I drive people away”-

– here is another thing I am sure about: you didn’t drive your mother away, children never do. Children will do anything and everything for their mothers to stay. They will do everything so that not to drive her away!

So when your mother said you are a b*&^, what it means to me that she rejected your love for her. And your  love for her is what is underneath your anxiety. Not a void, but love.

This is what has been underneath my anxiety all along, although I didn’t know that, until recently.

anita