Mental Health: Standing Up For Oneself and Others
✍ Write about when you stood up for yourself or others. What happened and how did it make you feel?
Note: You are welcome to write in any form to express yourself
This post is created as a prompt for journaling/reflecting/discussing topics as part of the Mental Health Awareness Month event at 7 Cups! You are welcome to join us this month and beyond to explore the Power of the Pen.
I did It a couple weeks ago. My mother is very abusive and toxic and mentally ill. We were having a fight and my sister was trying to protect me but also trying to give some explanations to my mom.
I said she didn't deserve any more explanations. She was old enough to be held accountable of her own actions and words. I also said i didn't need a father (he was an abusive one so he doesn't live with me anymore) and I stated that if she doesn't want to be my mother anymore, she doesn't have To. I can live with that, because I've been living with it for years.
@SoulfullyAButterfly
Hmm lets see. A time I stood up for myself was when my mom was being emotionally and mentally abusive with me and I told her to stop that ended in a door being slammed in my face://
@SoulfullyAButterfly I stood up for myself against a friend after she hit me across the head. I screamed at her, and she tried to say I was abusing her, when it was the other way around.
@SoulfullyAButterfly in may i stood up for myself when my neighbor told he wanted to tear down my gossip fence. i like my front yard gossip fence so i told him that the fence is mine that i'm keeping it and want to paint it. my fence is not just a property boundary it is also an emotional boundary.
