I have traveled a lot, worked, and lived in different countries, but my survival traits (problems) were following me everywhere, waiting for the opportunity to show up and make my life unbearable. I was obsessed with perfection, I had problems with authority figures/boss relationships and I practiced relationship anorexia. I was afraid of people, guilty when I stood up for myself. I lost the ability to feel or express my feelings, judged myself harshly, and had a very low sense of self-esteem.
There have been a few “hitting bottoms” in my life due to survival traits and I thought I was just weird and depressed. Until the final “hitting a bottom” – a devastating pain of a romantic break up when I eventually started to look for a way out. It was a huge relief to…read more at ACA Comline