General Chat

Thanks to Sharron whose comment on another thread 'leapt' out at me

"Isn't it just what depressives do though, take on the worrying for everybody else?"

I find this is how I have been for some years now ( not how I was when I was younger) and now I have realised that perhaps I can go a way to counteracting it?

Thought it might be relevant and helpul to others, who perhaps would not have seen it :-D

Rose , years ago they used to employ "Scapegoats" to do just that, :-D

My late Mum was like that Rose, and Sharron, and even when things seemed to be going well, she would be fretting over something.

I got her a little plaque that said Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday, and all is well!

She worried if she had nothing to worry about and I know I was an anxious person for a lot of my childhood and beyond, learned behaviour I suppose. She used to be chatty and friendly to everyone she met, whether it be socially at get togethers etc or just a person on the bus or out shopping, but used to constantly tell me she had had an inferiority complext when younger. I think she carried it with her all her life and hid it with the friendliness.

Good for you for seeing 'the error of your ways' ,

Lizx