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May 8, 2016 at 10:31 am #103948AnonymousInactive
* I meant that I assured her that her parents loved each other when they had her
May 8, 2016 at 11:32 am #103955AnonymousGuestDear Lada:
I will be away from the computer for a little while. I will read your latest posts and reply when I am back. Take care:
anitaMay 8, 2016 at 12:35 pm #103958AnonymousInactiveThank you..
I’m more and more aware of what is happening and what has happened.. When I heard “this is the end of your career”, it really didn’t just meant my English career, it was my life story and the one of growth and learning. My mum was just sitting next to me, telling me something and I was like “oh my god I wish I still had my background, my life”. Everything that has been happening to me in the past few months was as if it happened outside of me, not affecting me in any way, a one-time moment. It’s like I lost my path, all lessons I’ve ever learnt. The result is that I really don’t act clever, I have problems with memory, when my mom said outside “go get a can and water the flowers”, I had to think for a while where the can is, where am I supposed to go for the water, I measure whether there will be enough water for all the flowers by the fact whether the can is full or not, and not by my measurement, my evaulation of the situation or my opinion. This may seem trivial, but it also results in the fact that others have to tell me what to do all the time. It’s like there is no path anymore. One part of me is happy, thinking “Oh I don’t have to think anymore ever, I don’t have to struggle about my weight, money..”
I have this distinct memory from when I was coming up with the outline for my bachelor thesis and my intuition was telling me all the time “but this seems like a final version, like there is nothing to go deeper into”. The bachelor thesis was somehow a metaphor to my life at that time, and when I handed in this version, because I had no clue what else to come up with, it was as if I gave myself a message “I don’t want to learn and think anymore”.
I don’t know if this makes any sense to you, but I feel really screwed up, it’s as if Lada from the previous 22 years is really gone. That’s why I hear that I’ll be stupid, because my mind just doesn’t want to change one bit, it always says “what for anymore”.
May 8, 2016 at 12:38 pm #103960AnonymousInactiveMaybe this is why the therapist thinks I have depression, because I tell him that I feel like Lada is gone and my “life” over, when I really mean my life story, my purpose and journey..
May 8, 2016 at 2:31 pm #103965AnonymousGuestDear Lada:
Your sharing makes me think of this metaphor: a tree, with branches, leaves, fruits. Like you started that way, a whole little person in that little girl Lada.
Then the tree is getting only a few drops of rain hardly any sun. Its fruits dry out and fall, and so do the leaves. The branches fall one by one until all there is left is a trunk, but even that dries out and peels off. And all there is left is that skeletal trunk. That is the only part that can live off the few drops of water available.
You started as a whole person when you were very young and then there was only so little love and you dried out, over time. And then your father left and more parts of you peeled off for lack of love until now, there is only a skeletal, dried out part of Lada. All else is gone.
But it is not all gone. Those branches and leaves and fruits, these can grow again. Maybe not as magnificently as they would have if you were loved all these years, but you will be surprised. It is possible. There can be an awakening.
Only not by the power of will, intent. It takes healing and it can’t be done alone. If that skeletal trunk gets the water it needs, it will perk up, tiny branched will start growing, leaves, tiny flowers. If you find the love that you need, you too will perk up and become more and more of who you are.
It would have been a good thing if you had a competent, caring, hard working therapist that would give you the love you need, professionally.
Am I understanding your situation correctly?
anita
May 8, 2016 at 11:51 pm #104007AnonymousInactiveMaybe you are right, but I’m worried that this is not my main problem now. I will write here when I get back from work.
May 9, 2016 at 6:49 am #104018AnonymousGuestDear Lada:
Looking forward to your next post about what your main problem is now.
anitaMay 10, 2016 at 6:53 am #104126AnonymousInactiveI had to smile a little when you wrote that you were looking forward to it haha.. while I feel really fucked up. But I get you, thank you for caring for me.
I don’t even know how to put it..
I realized that up until the bad period things had not been okay. Only I was ignoring the important signs. I don’t know when did it happen, but I realized I have been out of touch with reality for a long time. I am most aware of it when I come home, where I hadn’t done much to make it a better home, also when I now shop, as I feel that my relationship with money has not been good, rather abstract (even when I was earning them, they were still just numbers on my card). I am also aware of it at work and when I drive my car, which my brother bought me right after I had acquired my driving licence (he bought quite a lot of stuff for me, he always took me as his little sister, but I generally don’t know why he does it). I don’t want to blame other people for my responsibility, but I think I got used to getting things the easy way (my mum never pressured me to get part-time jobs during early studies and I didn’t have the confidence to do so myself).
When it comes to the part “being stupid and lazy” or whatever that my mind promises me, I also realized that I had been learning things to succeed, get a good grade, get it done, not fail. Maybe not in elementary school, I’m sure I just had to think hard to solve a chemistry equation or math, but I generally didn’t let anything challenge me or change me. This has been the most obvious with English, especially at Uni. I would be too embarassed to fail at something that was the only thing that I was good at, that’s why I relied on what I had alrady known too much. I have no idea if this makes any sense, but maybe you’ll understand when I say that I was tempted to learn guitar, piano and tennis when I was growing up, but didn’t have the confidence. Last summer I tried learning tennis and tried to play it as I saw it with famous tennis players and also to just be good and my coach was impressed with me. Then the next lessons I tried for some reason a different approach, play it as if I really played it for the first time and it wasn’t half as good. That’s when I realized that it doesn’t matter whether one is talented, it is still only about discipline, hard work, learning. You have to learn the basic shots, then go to the more difficult ones, then you can play a match.. Unfortunately I was too blind to see I had been applying the first method at school, I simply forgot what studying and learning is about.
And then in December, my intuition pointing me to these issues all the time left me. I have problems with driving because I hadn’t done my driving school properly (I went through all the 100 questions many times, I attended all lessons, but it was the kind of learning to succeed as I said). I have general problems with thinking because my take on things and my life experience disappeared as well (so now I can still say that I finished high school successfully, but it is just an abstract fact. Even when I took the exam back then, I wondered why I wasn’t happy about it. It’s because I didn’t give myself a slight chance to fail.)
So right now I don’t feel deserving of much and my mind, or maybe my consience, wants me to not drive my car, have only little clothes and not pretty ones, not spend money, not earn money (I don’t get it?).. I don’t know exactly, but even writing on this computer is not right according to it. I also cancelled my therapy session, it was out of question to go there. I’m confused and honestly say to myself all the time what’s the point of being here when there doesn’t seem to be anything good waiting for me..
I believe this must be really confusing. :-))
May 10, 2016 at 6:57 am #104127AnonymousInactiveI know that if I had pushed through in December and looked around for signs, I would have realized these things and I wouldn’t see eveything this negative. It’s true that now I only see the negative, but the positive things I have done really did disappear, what I have now is only my current situation and I have to continue from here..
May 10, 2016 at 7:11 am #104132AnonymousInactiveMy main problem is that I’m stuck right know, I have been stuck for a few months. I haven’t even got my period in a longer time, I don’t feel alive at all.. no change whatsover, because I’m resistant to what I hear I should be doing..
May 10, 2016 at 7:17 am #104133AnonymousInactiveOne more thing. When I try to exercise or learn something, it’s as if there is not a place to load it in my head. As if the memory you can always add things to is not there, the flexible part that is always learning. As if I have nowhere to put the information.
May 10, 2016 at 8:00 am #104141AnonymousGuestDear Lada:
I am glad you smiled as you read my last short post.
It seems to me that in these last months you are experiencing a shut down of sorts. Overwhelmed with anxiety, your brain (and body) has been shutting down, this is why there is nowhere to put new information.
Also, for a while now, reading your post, I had in my mind “dissociation” and I mentioned it to you before. I just googled “depersonalisation” and this is what I reads in wikipedia:
“Depersonalization is an anomaly of self-awareness. It can consist of a reality or detachment within the self, regarding one’s mind or body, or being a detached observer of oneself. Subjects feel they have changed, and the world has become vague, dreamlike, less real, or lacking in significance…Individuals who experience depersonalization feel divorced from their own personal physicality by sensing their body sensations, feelings, emotions and behaviors as not belonging to the same person or identity. Often a person who has experienced depersonalization claims that things seem unreal or hazy. Also, a recognition of a self break down (hence the name). Depersonalization can result in very high anxiety levels, which further increase these perceptions.”
Depersonalization is a reaction to ongoing anxiety, too much and for too long. Depersonalization fits my observation that you have been “shutting down.”
What do you think?
anita
May 10, 2016 at 8:10 am #104145AnonymousInactiveBut how is it possible that my mind really gets dumber and dumber every day? Especially when I have planns to continue in my job. My boss just called to say that tomorrow I will go to a short lesson to be promoted (not a significant post, just a small promotion), and my mind was happy, because it meant security and knowing what’s gonna be tomorrow, but other than that the rest of my self was terrified, as I had the hunch to quit as early as in March.
I was always intersted in Alzheimers, I thought “maybe I’m afraid that mum will have it”, but now I feel like I have those symptoms, I only have a short-time memory..
What’s confusing is that the “voice” really did tell me in December that I will be stupid. I don’t know if this is even medically possible.. But I remember that when I quit school for the first time and suffered from depression, I suddenly had habits that I used to have a few years prior. Maybe I just function differently, I don’t know.. :/ But I’m scared where this is going, my brain feels so “childlike” now.
May 10, 2016 at 8:20 am #104150AnonymousGuestDear Lada:
I believe what you are experiencing is not Alzheimers and not getting dumber, like you wrote. I strongly believe this is not what is happening.
I believe what is happening to you is that you are suffering from anxiety, ongoing fear, and you are shutting down as a defense mechanism. This is what people and many animals do when they are overwhelmed.
Your therapist is wrong to have focused on depression. Anxiety is the issue.
I think you may need to see another professional, a competent professional. Maybe a psychiatrist for short term psychiatric drug/s, so to experience relief from this anxiety.
You are experiencing the symptoms of anxiety. These symptoms are reversible. You will not get “dumber and dumber”- you will not lose your memory. You will feel alive and well if you get some needed help. Please see a psychiatrist for relief.
And do write me anytime, please do.
anita
May 10, 2016 at 10:13 am #104156AnonymousInactiveI actually wish it was just an anxiety.. I sometimes contemplate getting hospitalized.. I just don’t feel like myself and it scares me because I don’t know myself anymore. But I’m worried they would just diagnose me with loads of diseases and that would be it..
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