Well, I recently began therapy due to heavy pressure, I guess I have more than the average american teenager. I dont really have anyone to trust and tell about my feelings or thoughts so I guess thats the main reason I started. I think the reason I have so much stress is that I think way to much about life in general and why people do the things they do. I cant really say I have a strong connection with anyone as of right now and my parents dont understand much. Ive recently discovered that no one knows anything about the things I do in my free time. You know when people pick up the small things about one another or a certain person? I can honestly, people in general just dont know me. With the therapy so far, just talked about my problems that even made the therapist say "Wow...," in just the 30 of the first meeting. Ive come to the conclusion that other than the overwhelming responsibilities of my every day life that I create the stress myself by thinking of problems that are irrelevent to my life. I honestly dont like to read others horrificly long posts so Ill stop typing now and will add more later. Post what ever you like. Help would be appreciated.
Therapy for what? You really haven't said what your "pressure" or stress is. Nobody knows what you do in your free time...how could they if you don't share some information. Anyone can become overwhelmed by dwelling on the worlds problems...some people take the next step and decide to work on the problems they can realistically help with. Becareful not to value your deep dark problems to the point you create even worse problems
You should use this forum to express some of these unknown things about yourself. See what kind of reactions you get from people, and that might tell you what kinds of things you should feel free to express and what things you shouldn't. Personally, I'm not that judgemental and I try to be honest and straight forward with people, so if you have something to say, I'll let you know what I think of it in as polite a way as possible. About all this thinking about problems that aren't yours, I can relate. I think a lot about great big problems in the world which I realize are irrational. My mind has a tendency to veer towards the negative, and I often catch myself wanting to stick with a negative view of things. This makes me realize that it need not be so negative - I'm just putting a negative spin on things. It's hard to stop though, but the more I realize I'm the one doing it, the easier it gets not to think that way.
I don't know how similar this is, but i used to suffer from severe anxiety, heaps of ruminations (circling/churning)- i created my own pressure. i still get it now, but have coping strategys. My life has literally been transformed! I had a course of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Does it sound at all similar?
