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*janbear* · 06-13-2006, 12:30 PM

I am trying to accept others' lack of acceptance

With a broken leg, there is a cast. With an appendicitis, there's a bandage and a scar. With my dual disorder, there is no visible wound. So people often don't understand my pain and symptoms-for example, anxiety, depression, weight changes, or fatigue. They may not consider them real or legitimate.

Right now I am learning a critical lesson: I cannot change the way other people think or act. Fortunately, I can still get what I deeply need-certainly not from everybody, and from just anybody-but from my support group (a) understanding and acceptance of who I am; (b) validation of my problems; and (c) support for my recovery.

Today I will pray to accept myself and pray to accept the people who don't accept me.

From:Today I Will Do One Thing

06-13-2006, 12:30 PM	#1
janbear willing servant Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 14,175	I am trying to accept others' lack of acceptance I am trying to accept others' lack of acceptance With a broken leg, there is a cast. With an appendicitis, there's a bandage and a scar. With my dual disorder, there is no visible wound. So people often don't understand my pain and symptoms-for example, anxiety, depression, weight changes, or fatigue. They may not consider them real or legitimate. Right now I am learning a critical lesson: I cannot change the way other people think or act. Fortunately, I can still get what I deeply need-certainly not from everybody, and from just anybody-but from my support group (a) understanding and acceptance of who I am; (b) validation of my problems; and (c) support for my recovery. Today I will pray to accept myself and pray to accept the people who don't accept me. From:Today I Will Do One Thing __________________ And this above all, to thine own self be true. And it must follow as night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. -Shakespeare For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. Proverbs 23:7

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