How do you give someone the ability to understand that the way they look at EVERYTHING is skewed so badly that it has absolutely no bearing on reality?
It’s a veritable litany: “I suck. I’m fat. I’m lazy. I’m stupid. I hate myself. I’m a lousy mom. I can’t do ANYTHING right.” Shockingly enough, the kid is only 20 (albeit with some pretty major issues). And the self-defeating circular logic she uses amazes me. Every time it starts, I get this picture in my head of the stairwell in The Matrix. Simplistic, yet nauseating and dangerous.
It worries me.
I go from wanting to open her skull and drip some positive thoughts directly onto her brain to wanting to hug and love her, to wanting to stand behind her with a cattle prod, yelling. “No negative thoughts allowed! *bZZt* Stop being so hard-headed! *bZZt*”
You get the general idea.
Hey! I want someone with a cattleprod to stand behind me and train me not to be negative and think depressed thoughts! That’s a great idea LOL