When I was about 10 y/o and bad-mouthing myself, my favorite aunt told me very forcefully, “Don’t talk that way about someone I love!” 70 years later, that memory still warms my heart and boosts my ego.
One of the horrible aspects of my mental health issues is called “personality disorder” and it means that I am always seeking approval of others and want to please them and think that I am worthless. I tend to ask people way too many times if they are mad at me, even when they aren’t, to the point the they tell me no but if I keep asking then they will be. I am always being told by others to stop puttiing myself down and not to call my self worthless but it is very hard for me to do that. I truly hate this part of my mental health problems.
mccollunsky 8 months ago
Yeah Charlie Brown, don’t talk that way about Charlie Brown.
in-dubio-pro-rainbow 8 months ago
If I only had a Dollar – or a slap in the face – for ev’ry time I talked this way about me, I would be rich and unconscious…
j_m_kuehl 8 months ago
Yeah it’s no fun if you agree with how e talk about you
LeslieBark 8 months ago
When I was about 10 y/o and bad-mouthing myself, my favorite aunt told me very forcefully, “Don’t talk that way about someone I love!” 70 years later, that memory still warms my heart and boosts my ego.
iggyman 8 months ago
“I’ll slap you silly, Charlie Brown”!
orinoco womble 8 months ago
She’s like my 20 yr old students when I say I’m old. I am, but it’s nice to be told I’m not.
PaulAbbott2 8 months ago
You’ll talk that way in a few years, Pat
gantech 8 months ago
Actually, that might not be a bad therapeutic technique…reframe from a third person perspective.
Just-me 8 months ago
Self-debasement happens all the time and it is a real and often very hard to cope with at any age.
uniquename 8 months ago
Sometimes tough love works.
eric_harris_76 8 months ago
It’s also in the movie “1776”, in a letter from Abigail Adams to her husband John, who was serving in the Continental Congress.
Give how much of the movie was take directly from the words of the people in it, often verbatim, it’s likely she did berate John exactly like that.
Otis Rufus Driftwood 8 months ago
I’ve never called myself a failure since my father strongly rebuked me for doing so.
I❤️Peanuts 8 months ago
Quite right—you’re a good egg Charlie Brown, and we love you!
Sambora1 8 months ago
One of the horrible aspects of my mental health issues is called “personality disorder” and it means that I am always seeking approval of others and want to please them and think that I am worthless. I tend to ask people way too many times if they are mad at me, even when they aren’t, to the point the they tell me no but if I keep asking then they will be. I am always being told by others to stop puttiing myself down and not to call my self worthless but it is very hard for me to do that. I truly hate this part of my mental health problems.