It felt good writing down my feelings in a journal
Yes indeed it helps me vent out built up emotions.
I didnt feel any different writing these feeling down tbh
It does some to help some, sometimes just saying it out loud/ writing it down makes it hit harder when the words are staring right back at you
It helps to see your feelings written down. It brings clarity to your thoughts where you would generally suppress them.
They are clearly raised to the surface to contemplate.
I’ve been hurt very badly before, my inner critic knows this and through writing my feelings down it’s become apparent the critic is trying to protect.
When I live so regularly in fight or flight mode it’s hard to remember how to be vulnerable with my wife.
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Normally it would, but I am going to be with a new partner tonight, and vividly recounting these details probably wasn’t what I needed today.
Honestly, I feel like recapping the experience and discussing my feelings did more to strengthen my inner critic than it did to silence it
Writing helped clarify what has sometimes gone wrong, but hasn’t yet helped me move past the mental issues to avoid it happening again
I am not sure whether it will help or not.
I don’t know if this will help
It hadn’t helped at all. if anything, reading what’s in my head is just highlighting the challenges I’m having and making me more aware of them
Writing it down helped organize my thoughts. In the moment the emotions and thoughts are too overwhelming. At least with this I can interrogate those thoughts without the distraction when I’m calm.
Writing it down provides a clearer understanding
Yeah it helped, but it will take time to leave a real impact
To find a relationship to my inner critic is a blessing
that it’s fostering a bad cycle of disappointment
That it gives negative thoughts when I think im not going to perform well
That I’m cheating it by using viagra, but that viagra causes more problems than its worth.
I hope it will help- it definitely makes me realize how much I fear and think about not getting hard- it makes me sad
It helped me understand the reasoning behind my inner critic. I’ve learned that a lot of my problems come from performance anxiety and I let the thoughts of my past failures take me away from being fully in the moment during sex