It is common to have a bad day or feel that we are very lonely and empty. We think that everyone and everything is against us, that no one takes us seriously and little by little we see that our life may lose value. However, at some point in our mental capacity we ask ourselves; how did I get to this point, or why do I feel this way, what did I stop doing, or at what point did my life change in this way?
These questions are very common. If you have ever asked yourself this question or have asked yourself a similar question, you should congratulate yourself because it is right here where your path of transformation begins. To transform everything bad that is happening to you into an opportunity to do something different, to relate to yourself and others from another mental space. That is to say, what you are experiencing and what is so painful for you, is only a reflection of those stimuli that you need to look at with more attention, to know them in order to do something different. You can ask yourself for example, why do I get along so badly with this person? or why nobody invites me to any plan? or why my family does not realize the pain I am in? or why do I feel so much need of love?
When you seriously think about this, you will most likely discover what it is that you do to feed your emptiness. You may realize that you spend a lot of your time seeing only the bad in that person or situation, or you may self-deceive yourself into thinking that talking bad about what hurts you so much might bring you comfort, but it doesn’t. The reality is that every time you look at the person or situation you are in pain, you see the bad in him or her. The reality is that every time you look at the negative, you increase an emptiness in you, you feed your anger and despair.
Dr. Aidee Berni Clinical Director of the Staff Support Program PAP