Survivor12 Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 Home - Training Institute for Mental Health Check it out...affordable & professional.
Author tuxedo cat Posted December 14, 2014 Author Posted December 14, 2014 Home - Training Institute for Mental Health Check it out...affordable & professional. Thank you. I'll try to give them a call on Monday.
Author tuxedo cat Posted December 14, 2014 Author Posted December 14, 2014 I know I need to get help for myself. It's embarrassing that I haven't already. On some level I believe it won't make any difference.
Snaggletooth Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 Nothing wrong with who you are, Tuxedo, I'd say it's where you are. I've been skimming through some of your old threads and you seem lovely. Caring, polite, thoughtful, well mannered, sensitive, but a big city and it's people can grind a person down if they aren't suited to it. On the flip side city folk can often move into the country and after an initial thrill be ground down by the peace, quiet, gossip and differing manners, social graces and challenges that rural life brings. I'm a country boy who ended up in the Smoke for work when he first started out, soon learnt it wasn't for me and so worked my way back into the country. Where I am now, village life, it's very different and it suits me. It's a slower pace of life, people stop to think, they look after each other and have the time of day for each other. Just going to the shop is a social outing, whether you want it to be it or not. Being here means I quit on the career I once thought I wanted, it means I earn less than I could, it means I work with my hands in all weathers, but it's worth it to be around good, honest, salt of the earth people, which are my kind of people, rather than trying to change myself to fit in with a different way of life. I wouldn't go back to the Smoke for all the money on the world, I could never be happy in that kind of environment. I also saw your most recent thread. If I were you I'd call your family, ask to come home for a while so you can relax, have someone look after you and then think about your future. It's simply not worth becoming this unhappy to chase a career, nor worth trying to struggle on alone when you are struggling so much. It sounds very much to me that you could do with some familiar faces and surroundings for a while. 2
xxoo Posted December 14, 2014 Posted December 14, 2014 The overwhelming message I get from people is that I'm worthless. A year and a half ago I was working at this cafe in Boston and people treated me so differently. I was respected and valued. What happened? I've never been popular but I've always been able to find a few people who appreciate and care about me. I feel like I'm living in some kind of nightmare here. A life working in a cafe, surrounded by kind people who respect and value you, is worth a ton. I'd move. I know you want the career in the film industry, but maybe you have only been considering some aspects of the industry, without realizing the whole picture (the parts that don't suit you). I like the saying, "Bloom where you're planted". But for you, maybe it would be better to go where you bloom, and then develop your passions there in any way you can. Be a big fish in a small pond. We introverts often thrive that way, making a big difference to a small community. Think of the people's lives you could touch with your talents and caring spirit in a smaller community, talents that are being smothered by the big city. I hope the new year brings peace for you, whatever you choose. Keep remembering how you were treated in that cafe job. You are valuable, likable, and worthy. Believe it! 4
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