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Help Seeking Denial

arfie
arfie
That phrase has been caught in my head for weeks now and it is driving me crazier. Where did I hear it? What does it mean?

Puts me in mind of folks who say they want help and proceed to find fault with any and all help offered, but I do not know and my search engines aren't coughing up much.

Anybody heard of it?
jewells1
jewells1
I am the great debater of me.? back a few months I had a moment when deciding to follow threw with therapist, was I looking for flaws to avoid the stepping forward fear? Being too critical as an excuse not to try? afraid make a few false steps? Or just put that shoe in place myself so it will fall, by making the goal one huge step, instead of very small safer ones? Hmmm.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
I'm absolutely familiar with the behavior. Until 2007 when I met my amazing VA doc PTSD therapist, I went to my therapist every week for years and then daily found fault with the help given to me until the next week's appointment. Dumb. What a waste of time. Glad I cut it out. Much better getting better. Who would have thunk it?

I'm not familiar with that being the term for it, though. But yeah, been there/done that, too, and have that t-shirt as well.
deleted_user
deleted_user
we don't need help for seeking denial, that's the easiest part when we know something is wrong but we hide it from everyone and pretend everything is fine
deleted_user
deleted_user
been there maybe too long
arfie
arfie
Yea, I think I might have heard it applied to me during that phase when I was beginning to realize "getting help" was more than hiring a degree to listen to how I think the wold oughtta be.

I hate these unidentified echoes. I know I heard it someplace...
DarkGypsyG
DarkGypsyG
in-tear-est-string...
deleted_user
deleted_user
you likely heard it somewhere and you cant remember it, when you trying so hard to remember something then usually you wont remember it, leave it aside and when you don't think about that phrase it can out of sudden come to your mind where did you hear it
arfie
arfie
If we put Confucius on Twitter will we have "Confutwit?"

Really no big where I heartened term, "Help Seeking Denial." Just a bug in my ear.
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