Posted by Dinah on May 26, 2011, at 13:14:30
In reply to I'm leaving this board, posted by Annabelle Smith on May 25, 2011, at 11:47:27
Perhaps you might feel more part of the group here if you responded to the posts of others. My therapist has been bugging me a lot lately about socializing. I told him Tuesday that I found it very difficult to feel part of a group. That I felt like a wading bird standing on one leg in a pond full of ducks. I can stand there one legged forever without feeling part of the flock.
He said that the way to feel part of the group is to not only physically be there but to invest myself. To give of myself to the group. That what I receive from the group will be, to some extent, commensurate with what I put into the group.
Naturally I rejected his advice, knowing that he couldn't possibly understand a wading bird, being a duck himself. But I'll pass it on to you, for what it's worth.
poster:Dinah
thread:986149
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20110511/msgs/986284.html