rotten week

This has been a rotten week. I am the Bad Guy at work, which is panning out much as you’d expect. It is unavoidable for managers, and I suppose the best we can do is be consistent and fair and straightforward. While I have these things nailed at work, I cannot say the same for my personal life.  My ability to assess and articulate my emotional state is so severely broken that I often have no idea what is going on internally until it has already boiled over.  Therapy was almost no help in this regard; I often received advice like “count to 10 before reacting to negative emotion” which would work great if I had a clue which emotions I was dealing with in the first place. One helpful thing a therapist told me was about survival mechanisms.  When...

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