I counseled somebody ( non-professionally; I'm an unlicensed mentor) and told them this:
"Learn how to filter out the noise and see what message the person criticizing you has for you. I know that it's difficult because your brain can get hijacked and you can be in survival mode so that it's very difficult to hear what the person is saying all you hear is there attack, and/or,their anger, if they're angry. If they are attacking you they're probably afraid of something. Or maybe they're very concerned about you and it's coming out all charged up. Maybe take a quiet moment by yourself, after the criticism, and try very hard to see what message that person had for you. Do you know if it was someone who cared about you or if it was someone you cared about? That can sometimes put more weight on the criticism. Because you really want to please the person where you really want to connect with them and when they criticize you you may feel like they are disconnecting from you or that you are disconnected from them. Your brain is trying to protect you right now from attack and from potential danger and harm if it is detecting a harsh tone of voice or a verbal attack on you. Try to listen to the message. If there's no message, walk away. No one deserves to be treated harshly or attacked. Whoever posted on here I hope they're safe and okay. And I hope they come back.
Good job everyone for being here and good job, Cerol
A.
The tactical retreat may be appropriate sometimes as long as you can go back to battle. Sometimes going to the moderators appropriate too.
Thanks Nik.
Nik wrote:
Why don't you just take a time out and go back later? Is there any other way you can use the group? Are there moderators? Can you talk to a moderator?
Carol's the moderator here and she logs on every day.
Someone will answer. Maybe another guest will be here too.
I'm sorry to hear that you had that experience I truly am.
When I run into situations like this I have to ask myself if I'm getting something out of this group and weigh that against the damage.
Are you getting support too?
Can you learn to be strong enough to take criticism?
Chicken criticism is like this for me:
You can take constructive criticism because that will help you change. It may be at the expense of your ego sometimes.
You can even take destructive criticism cuz you can learn how to ignore it or defend yourself against it.
No one deserves endless torture or punishment or aloneness. Napoleon had a lot of evil in him.
Blue wrote:
I came across this board I like it that I can post on here without signing in or letting anyone know who I am.
Seems like every time I think I have a group or I have a place to go for support it blows up in my face. I think many people are just still so fond of making me look bad.
A friend of mine that I used to have talked about Napoleon. How he organized people to make it look like they were just randomly putting down someone.
I'm having some trouble remembering or figuring out what she meant by that. But the tactic was to make the person look bad so that nobody would want to have anything to do with them.
So I was in this group and I was getting support from them and then suddenly I was getting ghosted and then I looked at some other entries that I had made and noticed someone had replied unfavorably to them.
I started suspecting no one else wanted to deal with me because of those comments these people made.
They really scared me so I ran off.
Now I have no more support group.
I'm not going to cause any drama over there I'm just going to leave.
It's a really powerful tactic.
That's why in some places I've been to they have rules where you can't confront somebody in public in front of the whole group of people. If you have something to say to them take them aside and talk to them in private for goodness sake don't share it in front of the whole group and make everybody not want to be around you.
Just saying...
I don't know if anybody will answer this. I'll look around see what's here.
Blue
Why don't you just take a time out and go back later? Is there any other way you can use the group? Are there moderators? Can you talk to a moderator?
Carol's the moderator here and she logs on every day.
Someone will answer. Maybe another guest will be here too.
I came across this board I like it that I can post on here without signing in or letting anyone know who I am.
Seems like every time I think I have a group or I have a place to go for support it blows up in my face. I think many people are just still so fond of making me look bad.
A friend of mine that I used to have talked about Napoleon. How he organized people to make it look like they were just randomly putting down someone.
I'm having some trouble remembering or figuring out what she meant by that. But the tactic was to make the person look bad so that nobody would want to have anything to do with them.
So I was in this group and I was getting support from them and then suddenly I was getting ghosted and then I looked at some other entries that I had made and noticed someone had replied unfavorably to them.
I started suspecting no one else wanted to deal with me because of those comments these people made.
They really scared me so I ran off.
Now I have no more support group.
I'm not going to cause any drama over there I'm just going to leave.
It's a really powerful tactic.
That's why in some places I've been to they have rules where you can't confront somebody in public in front of the whole group of people. If you have something to say to them take them aside and talk to them in private for goodness sake don't share it in front of the whole group and make everybody not want to be around you.
Just saying...
I don't know if anybody will answer this. I'll look around see what's here.
Blue