#recovery patterns

[guiltyidealist]

I reformatted Co-Dependents Anonymous's Recovery Patterns pages

(I didn't like that one of them got chopped in half across pages)

[audhd-space]

Reposting this because I need to materialize it somewhere.

[Updated] : Edited with alt text.

Original link here :

[serenityquest]

[unwelcome-ozian]

[uncanny-tranny]

One of the hardest things to actually accept, in my experience, is that you eventually have to forgive yourself for the harm you did to yourself. A good way to move on from that is just being able to let your past self rest in peace. Don't stomp on their resting spot, they need to be at peace. They deserve to be at peace, and so do you.

[loveyourlovelysoul]

Conditioning may have made you have opinions or say things, or even do stuff that aren't really part of you and who you are, just to be accepted by others and not be abandoned. Just to be able to survive (humans live in communities and in the prehistoric age, they would not have been able to survive if they got left out of groups).

Please come back to yourself and realize what are your real thoughts and try to separate yourself from those of others. It can be hard to do at first, it can be unsettling and tough, scary for sure, but that's mostly cause your mind wants to suggest you it's too risky and you may end up alone if you start being yourself and not follow the lead of others. But that's not true. You can survive and find the people that by nature, are exactly like you.

[killemwithkawaii]

Emotional hangovers are so fucking stupid.

"Oh, you went out and had an especially good time in a highly stimulating environment for a few hours? Nice going, you just cashed in 3 days worth of dopamine. Get Meh, jackass."

[distractionpie]

There's something interesting to be said about how characters repeatedly challenge Buck on being reckless and self-endangering and it is indispuitably a trait he has, but yet consistently the times he comes to major harm are not as a consequence of his actions, when he isn't reckless he's hurt anyway

[the-healing-mindset]

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[wisterianwoman]

From an early age, I knew I had to work for the things I wanted, and life showed me that I couldn't rely on other people, so I learned to do it all myself. It wasn't long before I completely burned out. Today, I am healing and finding balance, and learning to ask for help when I need it. Let's talk about it.

HEALING FROM HYPER-INDEPENDENCE

[clearallcathy]

Good lord. maybe its my headache making me a hater but i cannot stand the way people do pd positivity sometimes. do you not have anything to say to me other than "uhm i dont think youre a serial killer"

[serenityquest]

[unwelcome-ozian]

[leslieseveride]

actual visual representation of me decaying in bed all day due to those bts pics of lucy in the hospital.

[uncanny-tranny]

If there is one thing so many people need to deeply and truly internalize, it is that fear isn't love. You shouldn't be afraid of saying, "no" to somebody, even if you deeply love or care for them. You shouldn't fear what will happen if you are unable to do something for somebody.

Fear is not love. Fear is not patience, respect, or admiration. You can love and be loved without feeling afraid for your well-being, safety, or livelihood. The fact that so many of us are taught that to be loved is to be subjugated and fearful is dangerous, and if that is something you struggle with, you deserved better. You deserve better. Fear is not love.

[loveyourlovelysoul]

The victory of a type of thought over another one is often only based on our permission. We're the one allowing or not a thought to take over us and decide our next steps. Breathe, breathe more, stay in control