psyching yourself out?

[Christownsme]

Do you guys ever struggle with psyching yourself out? Let's say you know you love your girlfriend, but because of disruptive mood swings, causing you to believe in the mood and not in the truth of the matter, you begin to psyche yourself out of what you know to be true, like questioning whether you love your girlfriend, whether you even have the capacity to love anybody, etc..?

 

[Oaksfan4ever]

Yes..I have been feeling that way alot lately & I hate it!!

 

[CraftyTurtle]

I second guess myself a lot, wondering what is real and what is not. But if you DO what is right, even if you don't FEEL right, the feelings will come later. A bit like method acting.

There are primal parts of all of us that we cannot deny. The survival instinct. The need for companionship. We need to eat, drinks, sleep, mate. What makes us human is on top of all that. When you question "do you love this person", you might be looking at the primal need to mate or to have companionship as purely for "self". Of course we all have those needs. What makes you love *this* woman and not another, is your higher reasoning. She is kind to you, or you agree on your life-choices, or your family and friends approve of her. That's your intellect talking. The arguments are quite reasonable and valid. The next (bipolar) level above that is where flawed (questioning) thinking makes us doubt the lower levels.

However, the base levels are more stable, and higher levels build upon them. If your core beliefs and human instincts are sound, and your mid-level intellect is sound, then if there is a flaw in a high level, it cannot put cracks in a low level, when the mid levels are solid.

Actually, I'm making a mess. Google Maslow's Heirarchy. I've been awake for 24 hours. I have no idea what I'm saying.

 

[CraftyTurtle]

I second guess myself a lot, wondering what is real and what is not. But if you DO what is right, even if you don't FEEL right, the feelings will come later. A bit like method acting.

There are primal parts of all of us that we cannot deny. The survival instinct. The need for companionship. We need to eat, drinks, sleep, mate. What makes us human is on top of all that. When you question "do you love this person", you might be looking at the primal need to mate or to have companionship as purely for "self". Of course we all have those needs. What makes you love *this* woman and not another, is your higher reasoning. She is kind to you, or you agree on your life-choices, or your family and friends approve of her. That's your intellect talking. The arguments are quite reasonable and valid. The next (bipolar) level above that is where flawed (questioning) thinking makes us doubt the lower levels.

However, the base levels are more stable, and higher levels build upon them. If your core beliefs and human instincts are sound, and your mid-level intellect is sound, then if there is a flaw in a high level, it cannot put cracks in a low level, when the mid levels are solid.

Actually, I'm making a mess. Google Maslow's Heirarchy. I've been awake for 24 hours. I have no idea what I'm saying.

 

[Ludicrus]

Do you guys ever struggle with psyching yourself out? Let's say you know you love your girlfriend, but because of disruptive mood swings, causing you to believe in the mood and not in the truth of the matter, you begin to psyche yourself out of what you know to be true, like questioning whether you love your girlfriend, whether you even have the capacity to love anybody, etc..?

When I'm off the fish oil and vitamin B for very long I go back to that kind of insanity. Man, it can do a real number on ya. It messes with more than what you mention.

I have started to learn not to be around others when I realize I'm getting that way, until I work through it. Otherwise, I might verbally say something that would hurt someone.

 

[Loven God]

I do it all the time it is hard to see the truth through the illness . It does not allow me to see the truth a lot of the time it masks the truth over all the time for me .