My problem has to do with past abuse; however, in overcoming the effects of abuse, I don't believe that I should trust people as a matter of default. There are still people out there who are abusive. The world hasn't changed that much since I was a child. In trying not to be paranoid, I have trusted the wrong people and have suffered the consequences of trusting them. In wrongly believing that some people are good (therefore right), I have believed that I must be wrong when such people have something against me, and I have accepted consequences in error. Often one consequence has been relentless guilt and self-doubt, and in such cases contrition is not the solution. That works only when I have done something wrong. When I haven’t, the only solution is to realize just that. Sometimes such people have been those with authority - I am particularly vulnerable to those who abuse their authority because there is the tacit obligation to respect them. Responses from experts are most welcome.
2007-01-14
03:53:37
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