This week’s episode talks about a huge insecurity of mine: I think everyone thinks the worst of me. My whole life, I’ve always been an outspoken person, and one of the most common things I hear is, “When I first met you, I thought you were super intimidating / mean / a bitch.” But then people get to know me, and they see I’m really just this squishy heart who cares a lot about people… unless you hurt someone I care about.
Key Points:
My brain loves to obsess about people being fake to my face, people thinking I’m a joke, people thinking that I’m fake, and people thinking I’m a bitch
You are not your mental illness thoughts. I know who I am, and my OCD thoughts try to convince me otherwise
I have a really strong gut-feeling sensor, and my spidey-senses can’t always tell what is wrong, but it can tell that something is wrong
I would create problems that weren’t there in the first place, because I would convince myself that they were
I know the haters are coming, and I should just save my energy for that
I read an article a bit ago that linked women in power with being aggressive (negative), and men of the same power being assertive (positive)
I can be very assertive, but there’s still other parts of me as well
There’s still a lot I don’t share about my life, for my own level of privacy
Yes, I can be assertive and bossy, but I can be those and still be those because I have the best of intentions for people
Mentioned in this Episode:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
Episode #6: The Way I Learned To Live With OCD
Grey’s Anatomy
Augusten Burroughs: I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions
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