Dear Gaia:

The positive changes I noticed about you are a gradual softening of your emotions when interacting with me, less extreme. You expressed empathy for me and concern that you were burdening me, which means you were not self centered like you were before in communication with me. Recently you’ve been softer or more gentle than ever, addressing posts to me kindly, answering me thoroughly, at length in a neat, orderly fashion, differently from the early on very short/ dry/ angry or impatient answers. You expressed more of a balanced thinking regarding people and situations, reasonable understanding of your mother, better understanding of yourself, plus you expressed optimism lately that wasn’t there before (I am sure there are other things I am not thinking about at the moment).

I didn’t understand what you meant here: “there’s a bad link in my mind that only gets stronger with time”- can you explain it to me as clearly as you can?

“on the outside you wouldn’t say I am on the extreme part of emotional spectrum”- in the context of this thread, I don’t really care about the outside. I care about the inside. The extreme of before got softer, as I mentioned above, and will continue to soften as you practice emotional regulations skills and  “showing myself empathy instead of hatred“- most important.

I will be away from the computer for about six hours.

anita