Posted by SLS on May 20, 2013, at 6:49:11
In reply to Re: Avoid Avoidance --- P.S.:, posted by 64Bowtie on May 20, 2013, at 6:19:57
Hi Rod.
Thanks for the perspective. I will try to remember it.
Severe depression with social anxiety can produce complete avoidance and isolation. It has with me. I don't know how one can be any other way with this illness. Gratefully, I am experience a partial response to drug treatment. I have been able to get out some, but still seem unable to establish new relationships. After 35 years, perhaps this is something I must learn how to do.
- Scott
> P.S.:
> When we do get older and dare to retire, we start losing our acquaintances, friends and family, spouses and bosom buddies; starting to feel like 1 or 2 per month, these days... [AVOIDANCE] tends to eliminate intimacy of the new folks that filter into our lives... I, for 1, can't afford to lose toooo many more of my "Favorite Folks"; other wise you may find me [BABBLING] to myself sitting in a corner, finally with a faithful audience, me/myself... [AVOIDANCE] of the unknown is the curse of older folks, toooo stubborn to study and update rules of childhood with optional thinking as an adult...
>
> Rod
Some see things as they are and ask why.
I dream of things that never were and ask why not.- George Bernard Shaw
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