Categories: depression, anxiety, self-esteem
Date: 25 July 2006 01:52:51
Continues well, thanks be to God.
In fact: it continues very well. I've discovered that I am likeable. An odd realisation perhaps, but after a most wondrous holiday with wonderful people, and a few comments from friends down here, I've finally realised that I am likeable. And more than that: some people do in fact like me.
It is an odd feeling, though: after years and years of putting myself down and telling myself no one could like me, that I am completely unlikeable, the realisation that this is not the case is a bit of a jolt to how I view myself and how I consider myself viewed by others. A pleasant, and necessary, jolt: but a jolt nonetheless.
Thanks be to God for good friends, my wonderful psychologist -- who I truly do get on so well with -- and CBT: thanks indeed be to God.