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Section III: Acceptance of Myself |
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My Dislikes (at the time I have them)
- People who judge other people and believe it.
- People who argue to argue or don't make sense to me.
- Women who are controlling and non-compassionate (bitches).
- Men who are controlling and non- compassionate (assholes).
- Bullies
- Cold (emotionally) people.
- People who explain excessively.
- People who seek hidden approval continuously (fish). excludes children.
- People who corrupt other people.
- People who have sex as a way to gain leverage or obligate (conditional love).
- People who censor, change, or discount what I've said as a way to repress me.
- People who rephrase what I've said as a way to control the conversation.
- People who require me to carry the conversation (do the work alone).
- People who are absent in the conversation (emotionally or verbally).
- People who intimidate other people to control them.
- Angry-hostile people.
- Scaring myself compulsively.
- People who deal in absolutes.
- People who label as a way to injure.
- People who label as a way to create expectation.
- People who label as a way to gain control.
- People who create chaos on a consistent bases.
- People who always look for something wrong.
- Doomsayers.
- People who judge other people as a way to bolster themselves.
- People who hide an agenda.
- People who don't respect boundaries.
- People who use coercion, control, rage, violence.
- People without compassion or concern.
- People who clean obsessively as a way to "look good" for others.
- People who organize obsessively.
My Needs (stable for the most part)
- Access to food, clean water, sanitation, clothing, shelter, and medical services.
- Income (for the first need) and the transportation to earn that income.
- Recovery and the income and transportation to maintain that recovery.
- School (education).
- Dreams.
- To say I can choose.
- To say I love you.
- To say I'm sorry.
- To say I need you to help me meet my need.
- To know that the screw-ups I have are healthy.
- To hold and be held.*
- To have approval (in direct and non-controlling ways).
- To express (expulsion) my "self."
- To allow my "self" choices and the possibility of choices that are unknown.
- To set boundaries (and no explanation is necessary).
- To allow myself honesty.
- To say, "I don't know" when I don't know.
- To allow my honesty to be earned and not shared indiscriminately.
- To practice safe sex.
- To practice eating as needed and not in a way to stuff or over eat.
- To stop and clear myself when I'm in chaos or subtle diversion.
- To detach.
- To be separate in order to be close.
- To know that the best I can do is too much (controlling, approval seeking).
- Acknowledging when I hurt.
- Acknowledging when I'm sore.
- Acknowledging when my stomach hurts.
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Last Updated( Jan 31, 2009 )
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reviewed by: Harry Croft, MD
Psychiatrist, HealthyPlace.com Medical Director
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