flamingsword: “in my defense, I was left unsupervised” (therapy)
Am I returning to the CBT posts? I guess so! Long-ass prompt behind the cut. )
flamingsword: The word THERAPY in front of a Paul Signac painting (Therapy)
Beliefs mean different things to different people. Some people are working on the unhealthy belief that they are worthless. But what does that mean to them? One opposite healthy belief might be that they have value, but people value things differently. Some people see things as valuable that others don't value at all, so the components of their beliefs about value will be different. Areas of life people may perceive as having value are: )
flamingsword: The word THERAPY in front of a Paul Signac painting (Therapy)
Some interlocking concepts can become self sustaining cycles of wackness in your life. For some people, having low self esteem leads to underperforming their assigned gender. Not correctly performing your assigned gender leads to your social self being assigned the abject identity (a monstrous identity based on notions of straightness and normativity). And being called names and disrespected as the holder of the abject identity leads to distrusting your self concept which causes you to rely more heavily on the judgment of others, thus reinforcing the negative self esteem. Whether you rely on other people for your self esteem and concept of yourself is called your locus of identity, and not a lot of work has been done to see how malleable it is in adults. But we're going to try to hack it anyway, dammit! )

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