We have all done it and benefited from it. We have all shared an experience or struggle with someone else and felt better after we shared. It is the sense of being heard and understood that is salve to our soul. We truly need the human connection and feeling of belonging to live healthy lives.
This is why support groups can be so transformative. You can share your story or not. Even just being in the group and not sharing but hearing similar stories to yours is therapeutic. Sharing or not either way you have a sense that you belong. You have others around you experiencing similar situations and that is validating. You learn and feel you are not going through this experience alone. Just knowing that someone else can relate to what you are going through can be a boost.
The sense of being alone, misunderstood or unaccepted is truly bad for your health. It causes great stress to our systems to feel out of step with everyone around us. We just aren’t that far from the animals we once were. If you are an animal and you are alone your stress goes WAY up because you are in greater danger, true life threatening danger, than you would be in a group. There is safety in numbers in the animal kingdom.
Those with ADHD know this ‘alone’ feeling all too well. That is why you are here, right? You want to find others who can understand you, listen to you and validate you and your experience. You don’t necessarily need your problem solved, although that would be nice, you just need to know you are not alone.
It’s powerful stuff to have others who know what you are going through and be there for you.
Good for you for being here and allowing the support to be there for you. You deserve to be heard and supported. And if there is a clever problem solver (attribute of ADHD
in the group, all the better.
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