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Processing Emotions

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Hi. I cannot fully articulate what I want to say so I will start with this question. How do I correctly process emotions, specifically guilt and shame over doing something wrong, without acting like a professional victim?

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  • Being wrong and making mistakes is part of being human, how you respond and deal with these things can be painful and difficult. Ultimately it should be a lesson on how to be better and how to understand yourself and why it happened.

    I find the best way is to meet it head on, hiding from it only magnifies the guilt and hinders any chance of fixing what went wrong.

    Admit to yourself that whatever happened, happened. If it involves someone else, admit to them that you messed up and hopefully together you can fix it.

    None of this is easy.

    When you throw emotional dysregulation, RSD and many other N/D things into the mix it just feels a whole lot harder.

    You can do this. 

    Good luck and take care.

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  • Being wrong and making mistakes is part of being human, how you respond and deal with these things can be painful and difficult. Ultimately it should be a lesson on how to be better and how to understand yourself and why it happened.

    I find the best way is to meet it head on, hiding from it only magnifies the guilt and hinders any chance of fixing what went wrong.

    Admit to yourself that whatever happened, happened. If it involves someone else, admit to them that you messed up and hopefully together you can fix it.

    None of this is easy.

    When you throw emotional dysregulation, RSD and many other N/D things into the mix it just feels a whole lot harder.

    You can do this. 

    Good luck and take care.

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