Friends
Today my psychiatrist friend wrote this to me:
"you're a drama queen Mark, but that's also one of your great qualities. You are sensitive and thoughtful you're a thinker and a philosopher and that is great, it makes you you. You are a great listener and you have an artistic sole. Sadly these qualities put you in a difficult spot when bad things happen, the good qualities turn into bad qualities and help dragging you down. Thinking too much, philosophizing too much. Thinking what could have been, should have been etc.. you're digging yourself into a hole. And in order to get out of that hole, you need to realize that is whats happening, and start making your qualities, those things that make you you, work for you, and not against you."
I love my friends, I think he was trying to say that I'm neurotic haha. Sometimes it is easy to forget the impressions you make on people in your life. I have made people happy, made people laugh, given them great memories in my company, I am making the world a better place in small tiny ways which is the only way we can make the world better.
My ex cannot say the same, she is not that well liked by people. I must remember my most important advice that I give to people: If you really want to judge someone then first look at how they treat other people; before you think about how they treat you.
I didn't do that, but now I know what I will do in the future
"you're a drama queen Mark, but that's also one of your great qualities. You are sensitive and thoughtful you're a thinker and a philosopher and that is great, it makes you you. You are a great listener and you have an artistic sole. Sadly these qualities put you in a difficult spot when bad things happen, the good qualities turn into bad qualities and help dragging you down. Thinking too much, philosophizing too much. Thinking what could have been, should have been etc.. you're digging yourself into a hole. And in order to get out of that hole, you need to realize that is whats happening, and start making your qualities, those things that make you you, work for you, and not against you."
I love my friends, I think he was trying to say that I'm neurotic haha. Sometimes it is easy to forget the impressions you make on people in your life. I have made people happy, made people laugh, given them great memories in my company, I am making the world a better place in small tiny ways which is the only way we can make the world better.
My ex cannot say the same, she is not that well liked by people. I must remember my most important advice that I give to people: If you really want to judge someone then first look at how they treat other people; before you think about how they treat you.
I didn't do that, but now I know what I will do in the future
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I hope you did not pay for that useless Psychiatrist?? I\'d sack him if I were you! He\'s a total nincompoop and unprofessional! Hell, you don\'t even have to be professional not to kick a person in the gut when he\'s down! How dare he? sack him, I implore you! And oh, get a refund.
I totally discovered just how easy it is to forget, or even be completely unaware of, the affect you can have on someone else\'s life when I\'d asked my friends to send memories of me because I was so broken that I couldn\'t remember myself. And they sent in all these wonderful bits and pieces of memories, things that made me smile or laugh or moved me to tears. Sometimes things that I\'d done or said that I had no idea had impacted them so much.
Sometimes it can be a really good thing to step outside yourself and see yourself from another person\'s point of view. :)