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January 29, 2013 at 4:37 pm
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@sdwa, it took me a long time after I got my diagnosis to begin breaking the cycle of trying to rescue weird friends (almost always unsuccessfully). Then I began to withdraw socially for the exact same reasons you’ve given.
I’m just recently dipping my toe into the social pool, very cautiously. In the mindfulness webinar last night, @Rick talked about using mindfulness to take a pause when in those anxiety-infested social settings and I’m going to try doing that more.
So many of us are good in emergencies, maybe we should start a crisis response company.
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