attackfish

Listen to me. There is nothing pathetic about needing support. Everybody needs sympathy and support, and you still need it a long time after the abuse has ended. Distance in time from the event doesn't change that. In fact, sometimes you need it more later than you do right away. Sometimes it takes time for it to hit you, sometimes you're too wrapped up in your own head to notice sympathy until later, sometimes long after the abuse you have a shock to your system, and it brings back everything, and you need sympathy all over again. Sometimes you just hit a point later where you need some sympathy. It doesn't matter. You need sympathy when you need it and it has nothing to do with weakness. Allow yourself to need and want sympathy and support. The last thing you need is guilt for healing the way you need to.