A year later

It has been well over a year since I have posted here, and many things have changed. I have been in counseling for several months working on getting better personally. I am starting to realize that I am automatically programmed to sacrafice my own needs, wants and desires for other people, especially if the other person is angry and unhappy. Of course, the angry or unhappy person is not always right to be angry and unhappy, nor is it always necessary for me to give up something to "fix it." Intellectually, I suppose I knew this all along, but the emotional reaction to the situation was the problem all along. It always just felt right to avoid the hassle of someone else's anger by giving up a piece of myself. Oh, and duh, the prozac I am now on is helping too. I hve future goals of regular exercise and improving my diet so that I continue to feel better, but those things are down the road. Right now, I am still pulling myself out of the emotional well I had fallen into for the past couple of years. I feel I am nearly out.