You may be one of the many people walking around suffering from feelings of worthlessness and inadequacy. These dreadful feelings and thoughts may or may not be visible to others but they impact your quality of life, relationships to others and yourself. Excessive feelings of worthlessness are linked to depression. When your self-perception is set to worthless all your flaws and failures are magnetized to an unrealistic degree. I can tell you that your strong beliefs of inadequacy, worthlessness, perhaps hopelessness are not based in the external reality of today. It’s as if a leaky pipe is stuck to your insides with worthless, loser, inadequate, not enough seeping out of it. You probably try to feel better, seek reassurance, and perhaps you try positive thinking, all to evacuate these gnawing thoughts and feelings. There is hope in wanting to feel better and you deserve to know you worth from the inside out. I know a way that can help you get there and stay on the other side of worthless.
Saying what comes to your mind helps
How you developed this awful debilitating view of yourself may be unknown to you. What you know is how you think and feel in your daily life, in your relationships, your work and unstructured time. That’s a good place to start if you want to untangle the knots that keep you stuck in this pattern of destructive thoughts and feelings. Talking about what you know about yourself, saying what comes to your mind in a therapeutic environment helps us find and loosen up the rigid perceptions you have developed about yourself, your abilities, and your relationships. You might be (masking, or protecting) a very capable, spirited, part of yourself. It could be you did not have the consistency and continuity children need from adults to develop self-esteem and worth. Or you had too much rigidity; too many rules that did not make sense. Finding your voice, putting your words to your experience in a therapeutic setting helps untie rigid knots. When you are faced with genuine interest, care and understanding, in a therapeutic setting, you may start to have more empathy and interest in yourself. You may begin to notice how you think and feel about yourself on many different levels. As you talk about what feels real for you, perhaps you speak of what you never put words to before, your fears, your judgments can begin to soften. That does not mean it will be easy, or that you will welcome your therapist’s interest and careful listening from the start. You may feel terribly uncomfortable, anxious or afraid even frustrated at first. On the other hand, you may feel relief and welcome a sense of understanding you have never felt. Whatever it is that you experience in relation to your therapist is important and helpful to voice aloud. Your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are meaningful and a great place to start.
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