laura_seabrook | [SELF THERAPY]

I think I might use this journal to work through some of my issues. Like talking aloud to myself, maybe. Might be real real personal. Thought about using a filter to maybe make it private, but there's little point to that. I think I need feedback, at least to know that maybe I'm not alone in feeling so "lost" and "down".

I work thing out if I can talk or write to someone other than myself. When I do either to myself, I end up in an endless loop that normally turns in on itself and winds me up in knots. But to others - somehow it makes a difference. Well that's why I used to go to twelve step meetings, to hear myself think. It's not "an explanation" or "advice" or "rescue" I want really, just your eyes and ears. To know that I'm not alone, to know that my problems, thoughts and emotions mean something.

So, any time you see [THERAPY] in one of my subject lines (or tagged with self-therapy), it's me talking to myself, about shit in my life. I will probably put th details behind LJ-CUT as well (so you don't have to read any of it, if you don't want to). If you want to reply, that's OK, but you don't have to. Just be there.

Got to start somewhere.