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Section III: Acceptance of Myself
Written by Clinton Clark   
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Dec 15, 2008 A +  A -  RESET  

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 )
reviewed by: Harry Croft, MD
Psychiatrist, HealthyPlace.com Medical Director
 

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