Emotionally Damaged

You feel numb, find it hard to connect, want to over-connect, find it hard to spend time apart, struggle with trust, inherently don’t believe others, have a hard time regulating your emotional state, consistently over-respond to minor situations, under-respond to major situations, fear being loved, fear your own anger, have too much anger, have self-hatred….the list goes on and on.

Being emotionally damaged can take endless forms.

Despite it all, what it shows is that - for better or worse - you *experience* emotions….and that’s a beautiful thing. You want that.

Your emotions are just not working in your best interest right now.

Emotional damage happens when a part of you is stuck in survival mode.

Maybe it’s from childhood, a former relationship, abuse that’s happened to you, an experience that was beyond your control, a loss, or the many things that can stop us in our tracks and change the way we see the world.

But wherever you are, just know that emotional damage is something you can come back from.

There is hope, and there is a great life waiting for you ahead. Please take the chance, reach out, and find the help you need to move forward.

You don’t need to live like this.

-Julie Gurner,I'm a doc of psychology