I'm a regular but have recently name changed to post in mental health about the problems I have been having.
I could have posted this in lots of places but ultimately this is about my relationship with everyone.
Here Crisis Team
And here hand hold needed
On Tuesday I saw a Consultant Psychiatrist it was a long appointment but among the many things he said was 'you've been kicked around and treated badly your whole life, haven't you?'.
Sadly this is true.
I'm not in a relationship, I LTabusiveB years ago, did the Freedom Programme and I'm good at weeding out the potentially abusive and the idiots now.
In may ways - and with respect to anyone in an abusive relationship - LTB and learning to spot dangerous men was the easy bit.
My problem is that I am treated badly, talked down to and taken advantage of by everyone. I know this is my fault.
I'm terrified about going back to work because they will heap more and more work on me and then shout at me when it isn't all done. Work was the ultimate straw that broke me and started the 'breakdown' I am currently having.
I'm looking for another job.
I think it's too late in life for me and my ageing parents to go NC but I plan to put physical distance between us too.
But ultimately, even after I've taken those positive steps I'm still a doormat, too nice, too easily treated badly, it's what I've known my whole life and I don't know how to stop it.
As part of my recovery from this bout of mental health illness I will have CBT soon.
Aside from the CBT I think I need to put some work in myself.
How do I break out these behaviours and learn to stand up for myself?
How do I learn to put myself first and treat myself well?
And how the hell do I stop taking everyone else's shit?
TIA