10-30-2014, 11:06 AM
Hmm this is tough. I'm trying to find a balance between allowing myself to experience my emotions vs getting caught up in them. And more importantly becoming attuned to what some of them mean and trusting my own intuition. I feel like emotions can be a sort of compass or guidance system for your life, but if you shut down and stop paying attention to them it's like you're navigating without knowing where you're going. My path has always been a little different, so it's tough trusting what my gut tells me at times because there's a lot of pressure to conform to a certain way of doing things. I think a lot of that is stuff I internalized over the years as a kid growing up. Just a constant feeling of being wrong, but not knowing why and not having the self awareness to realize it doesn't make me less of a person.
Anyway I've noticed my depression has gotten better once I started listening to what my feelings were telling me. And I've been feeling more grounded lately too. I hadn't realized how spaced out I was a lot of the time as a way to distance myself from my emotions. Small improvements, but I feel like I'm headed in the right direction.
Anyway I've noticed my depression has gotten better once I started listening to what my feelings were telling me. And I've been feeling more grounded lately too. I hadn't realized how spaced out I was a lot of the time as a way to distance myself from my emotions. Small improvements, but I feel like I'm headed in the right direction.
