(Sorry for mangled sentences, couldn’t edit after posting.) I want to add that at a different phase of life when I was in my 20s I urgently needed professional therapy and tried to go to friends, but was so confused at what I was going through and so distraught I overburdened friendship and that pushed people away. There are issues like …
(Sorry for mangled sentences, couldn’t edit after posting.) I want to add that at a different phase of life when I was in my 20s I urgently needed professional therapy and tried to go to friends, but was so confused at what I was going through and so distraught I overburdened friendship and that pushed people away. There are issues like actual) physical and sexual abuse and alcoholism that can definitely benefit from the help of skilled professionals. Children from alcoholic homes or from homes with sexual abuse tend to gravitate towards others, who come from those same backgrounds and have similar wounds. Liz, I agree, confiding in people who are as confused, and who have similarly distorted perspectives, can create even more problems..
(Sorry for mangled sentences, couldn’t edit after posting.) I want to add that at a different phase of life when I was in my 20s I urgently needed professional therapy and tried to go to friends, but was so confused at what I was going through and so distraught I overburdened friendship and that pushed people away. There are issues like actual) physical and sexual abuse and alcoholism that can definitely benefit from the help of skilled professionals. Children from alcoholic homes or from homes with sexual abuse tend to gravitate towards others, who come from those same backgrounds and have similar wounds. Liz, I agree, confiding in people who are as confused, and who have similarly distorted perspectives, can create even more problems..