You know, despite all the therapy, medication, introspection, and self analysis, despite being older and wiser and having had all kinds of experience with all kinds of people, I still get these visceral reactions to certain things. While being told something that gets me defensive and angry still causes a physical reaction as well, I can at least keep myself from saying or doing something in response that I might regret later.
It’s still hard, though, don’t you think? You want to do something right away, whether it’s yell and scream, hide somewhere for a good cry, or give in to your juvenile side and dish out some snark. And the whole time that you’re being patient, waiting for a response to your calm and rational counterargument, that inner child is pounding away at you, demanding something melodramatic.
I will let inner child out only when she’s ready to behave herself. Right now she has to sit in the corner.
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> I will let inner child out only when she’s ready to behave herself. Right now she has to sit in the corner.
Hey! I just wrote a lot more than that!!!!
Gist. Come out of the closet and rant. Isn’t that part of the issue? … your child is behaving just the way it needs to to flush away what’s going on. Rant, let it out ,then get over it.
… and you still feel you must hide away to cry?
I love you … it’s OK to be emotional and FEEL things strongly. It doesn’t make you a bad person … in fact, I believe that the honesty can make you more whole.
So I’ll do it for you … bitch! *giving the finger* go to hell! …
… there, feel better?
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