[brains] accepting/asking for help
Jul. 9th, 2004 11:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wispfoxBits of words that I thought needed a wider audience.
"It's difficult, for me at least, to consider that my perspective on things inside my head might not be accurate to reality, because then I have to face the terrifying possibility that _none_ of what's in my head might be accurate to reality. Instant recipe for insanity, that!
Accepting help implies (in my head) that what I do is not enough. And perhaps will never be enough. I hate that.
But not accepting help ever puts too much of the burden on myself. And that's bad and self-defeating."
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I have _very_ much difficulty accepting help, and more difficulty yet asking for it. But I ask anyway. And I accept anyway. Because I am not someone who can cope with everything, all the time, on my own. Not and remain reasonably sane, happy, and stable.
"It's difficult, for me at least, to consider that my perspective on things inside my head might not be accurate to reality, because then I have to face the terrifying possibility that _none_ of what's in my head might be accurate to reality. Instant recipe for insanity, that!
Accepting help implies (in my head) that what I do is not enough. And perhaps will never be enough. I hate that.
But not accepting help ever puts too much of the burden on myself. And that's bad and self-defeating."
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I have _very_ much difficulty accepting help, and more difficulty yet asking for it. But I ask anyway. And I accept anyway. Because I am not someone who can cope with everything, all the time, on my own. Not and remain reasonably sane, happy, and stable.
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Date: 2004-07-09 08:44 pm (UTC)And prone to making sweeping facetious statements.
In case you hadn't noticed.
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Date: 2004-07-09 08:48 pm (UTC)I should find the Faery post for you.
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Date: 2004-07-09 08:57 pm (UTC)(have I mentioned that I tend toward insane curiosity? But I'm really good at not being pushy about it...)
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Date: 2004-07-09 09:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-09 08:51 pm (UTC)*chuckle*
Not noticing, nope, not at all!