I told my therapist I see things I could do to increase my connection to others, but I don’t care enough to do them. I asked her what do my clothes (I was wearing old black shorts and an old ratty white t-shirt) say about me. She said they say I don’t care. I read her my FB posts and she said that if someone doesn’t know I’m safe, they could be put off and want to distance from me. I read her my writer’s credo and she said it sounded like my most important beliefs.
So I spent much of my therapy tonight scrolling through my FB posts and reading the ones important to me. She was a tad surprised that I made this stuff so public but she figured that my FB friends know who they’re dealing with so the posts shouldn’t come as a shock.
I had a girlfriend who related that a friend told her when she wore sweats in public, she looked like she had given up.
