by Candid » Tue Jul 24, 2018 9:58 am
This doesn't sound like a medical diagnosis, my friend. It sounds like you explaining/justifying your despair. All you're doing is creating more reasons why you can't feel happy and successful. This will keep you stuck unless and until you change your mind.
That doesn't mean you need head drugs or some kind of operation. It doesn't even mean you need therapy, although someone in the room with you can point out your faulty thinking more effectively than I can.
This is how I see you:
1) You are thoughtful and considerate. I've never known you be anything other than pleasant and supportive to people here.
2) You're a reliable employee. You keep showing up and doing the job year after year.
3) You're a good son. You care deeply about your mother and will always offer her support when you think she needs it.
4) You're loyal and generous. You were always taking g for meals or coffee, even buying her clothes.
5) You're a good friend. Your co-workers like you.
6) You're intelligent. You communicate fluently in English, slang English, and presumably Turkish as well.
For years now, possibly most of your life, you've been telling yourself your situation is hopeless. Very few people's lives are hopeless, and yours certainly isn't. But if you declare yourself hopeless, the game's over. You've defeated yourself.
When I urge you to change your mind, all I mean is to get rid of the negative chatter you seem to live with permanently. The only way to stop that destructive mental noise is to crowd it out with more optimistic thoughts about yourself. You could start with the things I've written about you.
I AM thoughtful and considerate. I AM a reliable employee. I AM a good son. I AM loyal and generous. I AM a good friend. I AM intelligent.
Follow up with:
I can make good decisions.
I will always support myself, be on my own side.
I enjoy great physical and mental health.
I can trust my own judgment as to what's right for me.
I see you constantly beating yourself up, never giving yourself a break. You're much kinder to everyone else than you are to yourself. Then you wonder why you're surrounded by 'jerks' who take advantage of your good nature.
I'm not going to ignore your relationship with your father as a factor in how you feel about yourself. You can't go back and change it, but that doesn't mean you're stuck with it. As the saying goes, the best revenge is living well. You have everything you need to do that.
I'm not aiming to change anything about you; I think you're a lovely and lovable man, just as you are. I just wish that for your sake you could see that, too.