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Started by kitten, February 21, 2013, 08:24:18 AM

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kitten

Hai hai to everyone^^

The main cause of my worries is emotionally related or in my case lack there of. So far as i can tell i have a incredibly repressive subconscious that hold a ridiculous amount of sway over what i can  and can not consciously realize. It is worth noting that i have completely accepted that I am trans and i am setting an appointment with a therapist once i get my medicare care renewed. The reason this has been worrying me (to the point i have been losing quite sleep this week among other things like deciding to come out to my mother next time i see her) is that I have been completely unable to feel any emotional response for the past year.

This started around when i was 10 (I'm now 20) as in my best guess my subconscious minds best fail safe method to deal with the fact that I was trans but everyone around me telling me i shouldn't do girly things because i was a boy thus lead leading me to subconsciously repress anything to possibly do with my femininity (until a couple of days into 2013 when i started to pick up on gender bender manga and the mental lock shattered. Allowing me from then until now to look at many things in a much different light and allowing to remember many things i had previously forgotten about my childhood most of it having to do with the fact that I was never truly comfortable as a boy inversely however now that I have accepted that my gender identity is not that of a male I'm forgetting many parts of my past i used to remember just a month ago.) a couple of things would get by but still suffer some form of repression (I let my hair get quite long in high school and it still is but neglected to take of it for reasons i could not identify to even myself.) while other thing i would down right scoff at but now i would want most of these things. Slowly but surely though over 10 years my emotions have been being repressed, these day i cannot feel happiness, sadness, or anger just void emptiness. (I truly wish this on no one I cant even remember what emotions used to feel like, I can however remember times when they were present for i was a very emotional child.)

The reason this emotional void worries me is because I wish to once again have them back and i feel that transitioning would help greatly to this end but I'm beyond worried about what happens when they start coming back. Gaining something that iv been slowly losing for over 10 years and have lost completely for a full year is now foreign to me and worry's me greatly ( it may also be worth not that due to this lack of emotional response life has been very difficult because generating motivation is very hard when you know that no matter how hard you try you will not achieve happiness it will just leave you feeling as empty as the day before, thus why i would never wish this upon anyone.)

Sorry for going on so long but this is something i truly wanted to get off my chest for it is truly a difficult thing for people to understand (though i do know something else who is emotionally void he is so for a much different reason he has never had then and may have them because of a mental illness and so he views it much differently from i do) so getting people to talk to is difficult to nigh on impossible.

This is in a way a picture of how i view myself under the rule of my subconscious ended finding this while thinking this post up and it was to perfect not to include.


The mind is the inmate the body is the cell and society is the jailer.
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Catherine Sarah

Hi Kitten,

A big Aussie welcome to Susan's family. It's good of you to drop in and say "Hi". Hope you like it here, and you stay for a while.

There is a mountain of information, resources and friendship waiting for you here, you just need to jump in start talking and ask any question you like. You're quite safe here and we are very accepting.

First of all, let me just say you are quite normal. There is nothing to worry about. We all have repressed thoughts and feelings like yourself. It is a typical mental condition when you give yourself permission to accept who you are, this action primarily sets in motion permission for your mind to release those repressed thoughts as though a dam has broken. For the time being, until you see your therapist, just go with the flow. Recognise these thoughts and feeling as a natural process and you will get a better understanding of them.

Looking forward to hearing more of your story in time to come, but in the meantime, be safe, well and happy.

Lotsa huggs
Catherine




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kitten

Thank you for the warm welcome^^ and I will probably be staying for quite a while because it's nice to be able to talk to people who you can relate to and who seem very kind.

As for my mental repression i can say that my emotions are still quite locked away in a way i have that to thank for staying sane these last 3 months while i came to terms with myself but its still painful to wake up every morning knowing no matter what you accomplish happiness is out of reach locked away in a corner of your own mind. As nice as it can be on some days not to be cable of feeling sadness or anger its not worth the trade. Hopefully once i scheduled and go to a few meetings with my therapist ill find a way to take back what my mind has locked away.

As for now i think it's finally time to get some sleep, I have had the worst insomnia this past week and unless I exhaust myself to the point of incoherency I can hardly get 2h's of sleep. Really need to get my medical card renewed ASP.

Kitten^^   
The mind is the inmate the body is the cell and society is the jailer.
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V M

The main things to remember in life are Love, Kindness, Understanding and Respect - Always make forward progress

Superficial fanny kissing friends are a dime a dozen, a TRUE FRIEND however is PRICELESS


- V M
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Ms. OBrien CVT

Hi Kitten, :icon_wave:

Welcome to our little family. Over 10201  strong. That would be one heck of a family reunion.

Feel free to post your successes/failures, Hopes/dreams.  Ask questions and seek answers. Give and receive advice.

But remember we are family here, your family now. And it is always nice to have another sister.


Janet 

  
It does not take courage or bravery to change your gender.  It takes fear of living one more day in the wrong one.~me
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spring0721

Kitten,
Welcome! Glad you're here and hope you find many friends and information here.  As far as your emotional detachment or lack of emotion.....just a thought, maybe yes you've been repressing yourself because you couldn't represent the inner you physically? I don't know, but as you been to make physical changes(if you are going to) you may find yourself happier and feeling more yourself therefore more connected to actual emotions in general.  I find it hard to believe anyone can really want to have unhappy emotions all of the time, so maybe this has just been your defense mechanism so to speak to 'turn off' your emotions to protect yourself. I wish you luck!
People are people, treat everyone with the same respect and courtesy that you want to receive.
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Jamie D

Welcome Kitten.  As one who became "emotionally calloused" from denying my gender issues for decades, I urge you to address them as soon as possible.
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kitten

I thoroughly intend to^^

I'm not as worried as I was this morning anymore due to lack of emotional interference in these times of stress, the mind can quickly restore order and set myself to thinking in a calm logical fashion (For all the times i do stress out though the mind has its work cut out for it.) the only good thing about the lack thereof of emotional interference.

also calling up tomorrow to have my papers sent to renew my medicare card then a week to wait for them to arrive (Entirely to long in my opinion but nothing i can do about it.) then i can see about a therapist and hopefully get on track towards a brighter tomorrow.

It may also be worth noting that its not impossible for me to feel anything though the criteria is that i find someone that I can manage to form a romantic relationship with. (Which albeit is rather difficult for me, the last and only person I was with had to work at me for 2 years before we got involved with each other and i wasn't as devoid of emotion when she was trying to get me as i am now.)
The mind is the inmate the body is the cell and society is the jailer.
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kitten

I feel to need to share my anxiety's these days which is a feeling that leaves me confused and somewhat flustered because before figuring out what I was in regards to my gender identity and where i stood with myself I could easily keep all my problems and self opinions to myself now i just cant manage that anymore  :-\
The mind is the inmate the body is the cell and society is the jailer.
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spring0721

Quote from: kitten on February 22, 2013, 09:10:51 PM
I feel to need to share my anxiety's these days which is a feeling that leaves me confused and somewhat flustered because before figuring out what I was in regards to my gender identity and where i stood with myself I could easily keep all my problems and self opinions to myself now i just cant manage that anymore  :-\

Sometimes it's hard too, to all of a sudden feel like you have to talk about stuff, but that's okay, because that's why this forum is here! :) everyone is only human, it's nice to have a sympathetic ear to listen to your problems now and then!
People are people, treat everyone with the same respect and courtesy that you want to receive.
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kitten

Everyone is indeed only human^^ Though I'm guessing the reason i could so reliably keep my problems to myself before was because it was what my brain perceived as the masculine thing to do (Though doing so never really helped me many times i would hurt myself and only say something when it was very clear no matter what i did  :( ) and now sine i don't need to lie to myself anymore I'm allowed to feel along the lines of how i would normally without any repression.

Also getting my papers sometime in the next 7-10 days then have to wait a 20-30 days for my card to come. :eusa_wall: (Guy i had to talk to so he could verify my information so they can send me my papers must have been slightly annoyed talking my call cause i get really uncomfortable talking on the phone cause people say i sound like my dad and i hate that.  :-X Combine that with the fact that I had to go through the process in french and it took a lot longer than it should^^)
The mind is the inmate the body is the cell and society is the jailer.
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Charley Bea(EmeraldP)

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Welcome Kitten

I completely(or at least mostly) understand I went through and in some ways am still going through a similar situation. For the longest of times I was numb felt nothing didn't even mourn my nana's passing I wasn't putting on a strong face at her funeral like some thought I just didn't feel anything which was odd as me and my nana were close. I use to 'fake' cheerfulness and smiles(again sometimes still do) to benefit others. But actually feeling it was something else. Then when I came out to my best friend(more like collapsed in tears one night and basically blurted/stuttered it out) Something changed now i feel happiness/cheefulness, dread, frustration and sometimes anger again. I still have my numb times but not so frequent.

The worst thing was that I would have these black outs and apparently basically I became the hulk lots or anger exuding and enhanced strength, but no memory of the events I learnt the details in retrospect from witnesses.

The last one I know of was I would say going nearly four years ago now.

I guess what I am trying to say is I understand where you are coming from but again it is also a individual experience so mine maybe similar but not the completely the same. However Things will get better. Not saying you will finding meaning/purpose in life(still searching for mine :P ) but it will come back to you.

Everyone is here for you myself included if you need to talk at anytime.

And once again Welcome to the site ;)


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kitten

Thank you for the welcome emerald^^ ( and everyone i haven't thanked yet^^)

I went through a similar experience with the death of a close relative. (My grandfather on my mothers side died when i was 10 and though i was close to him (We saw each other almost every weekend) i felt nothing at his passing and haven't felt sad a day since then.) Also ended up not caring when i ousted my relationship with my father for 3 years after i finished high school (Do somewhat regret it a tad now due to the fact that I did it fully convinced his constant pushing that no matter what i achieved it wasn't good enough and any misdeed around the home was my fault led to my emotional deprivation which i now know is false. It did help our relationship though with me out of the house he learned his daughter wasn't the angel he thought and when i came back the family dynamic was greatly fixed though those two do bicker a lot more.) but in my eyes that just goes to show that if my mind is still withholding my emotions from me it simply means that I'm not ready to take the sadness that comes with the privilege of trying to chive  happiness yet and when i am ready hopefully ill be given them back^^ (Honestly if i did have them I think i would have already broken down because if memory servers i was prone to frequent and erratic mood swings.)
The mind is the inmate the body is the cell and society is the jailer.
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