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    Iulianeartchild
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    1. I want to talk about my problem. First of all I want to tell about myself. I am 17 y.o. girl.
      I’m interested in psychology, spirituality, personal development. I’m trying to be real with people and with myself. I feel myself terrible.
      I decided to take a gap year before college and it was a bad decision. But I’ve been going to the gym every day. I felt pretty good here, but something went wrong. I “fell in love”with fitness instructor and she is a woman. It’s happened to me in before. I had emotional attachment to teachers in my school. I had depression and anxiety because of it.
      Now I realize that I have emotional attachment to my fitness instructor because of childhood trauma. When I was a child I had selective mutism +problems with health. I was unable to communicate with my classmates and teachers. I was able to communicate only with my family. I was very shy and my classmates never understood me. I was bullied. Kids hated and judged me. I was very lonely and isolated. Also I never had good relations with my mother and grandma. My father never lived with and he doesn’t care about me.
      Now I feel that I don’t have a reason to wake up. My life is absolutely empty and I am tired of this. I can’t go to the gym anymore, because my family can’t afford it, but I don’t have money and unable to work. But I am very attached to this place and to person in this place. I always have obsessive thoughts about this woman and I always want to see her. I am not interested in life,because I feel powerless.
      I am very lonely. I don’t have friends and can’t normally communicate with people. I am lying in my bed all day . I have internet addiction and eating disorder. I eat to much and I can’t stop it. I am tired of all coping mechanisms. I feel like I am absolutely depended on my family. I feel like I am depended emotionaly on woman from the gym. I tried to find a hobby, to fond some friends, but it led my to pain and dissapointment. I don’t want to live life like this, but I don’t want to kill myself. I just want to dissapear. But maybe I deserve to live such a miserable life. Sorry for my english. Thank you.
    #271793
    Anonymous
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    Dear lulianeartchild:

    I doubt that you deserve to live a miserable  life. I think you probably deserve to live a good life, a much better life. Maybe this better life starts this new year. I hope so.

    You wrote: “When I was a child.. I was unable to  communicate with my classmates and teachers. I was able to communicate only with my family.. I never had good relations with my mother and grandma. My father never lived with and he doesn’t care about me”-

    I want to understand better, therefore I ask: if you were able to communicate only with family, and your father never lived with you and doesn’t care about you, and your relationships with your mother and grandmother has never been good, then with whom were you able to communicate and in what ways?

    anita

     

    #271811
    Iulianeartchild
    Participant

    I able to communicate with mother and grandmother, but it is hard sometimes.

    It’s better, than it was 2-5 years ago, but we still have some conflicts.

    #271817
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear lulianeartchild:

    What are those conflicts with your mother, and  with your grandmother?

    anita

    #271855
    Iulianeartchild
    Participant

    They dismiss my emotions

    #271861
    Anonymous
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    Dear lulianeartchild:

    To be real with  (“I’m trying to be real with people and  with  myself”), your feelings need to be  seen and taken seriously by someone. Someone has to notice how you feel, to listen to  how you feel and let you know that she understands, let you know that in a respectful way.

    But when a person’s feelings are  dismissed, the  person is dismissed. The real person goes into hiding until such time that  someone sees that real person. Seen, the real person will come out of hiding.

    Your attraction and longing for your fitness instructor (and to the teacher in school before), may very well be just  about this: to be seen, noticed, respectfully.

    With the real you hiding, you feel empty (“My life is absolutely empty”). To communicate with someone who sees you, that fills that emptiness. We are social animals, to effectively communicate is to feel truly alive.

    anita

     

    #272471
    ben
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    hey,

    it sounds a really tough time. Sorry to hear that. Are you able to get yourself back into education or work? Or is that a bit too much at the moment?

    Overall, it sounds like you’re worrying a lot which is understandable, things sound a bit disjointed which at your age again is normal.

    Have you gone to see a doctor? Have you considered speaking with a therapist if you could get this funded in any way?

    I think it’s important for you to know, there are many other people who are feeling the same as you out there, you are not alone. You may come across them in your daily life and you could probably recognise this when you see them so keep an open mind if you can.

    On the psychology/personal development etc, have you seen a guy on youtube called Actualized/Leo Gura/actualized.org? He is a personal development guru and may be something of interest?

    Good luck.

    B

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