Thanks for posting this - a good bit of your description of the downward spiral to nobodylovesmeland sounds awfully familiar :/
I've been in that loop a few times myself, and my reasons for going there are somewhat different - I keep thinking that if I dwell on what went wrong I'll figure out where it went wrong and thus circumvent it in the future. As you've figured out, dwelling doesn't work.
I think it takes incredible nerve to defang the beast by sharing it with others!
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Date: 2008-02-16 12:44 am (UTC)I've been in that loop a few times myself, and my reasons for going there are somewhat different - I keep thinking that if I dwell on what went wrong I'll figure out where it went wrong and thus circumvent it in the future. As you've figured out, dwelling doesn't work.
I think it takes incredible nerve to defang the beast by sharing it with others!