This summer...
4 weeks ago
...I was off work ill and went into counselling to try and see what had stressed me out so much. One of the things was a combination of a misplaced sense of repsonsibility and not being able to express anger in the right places. So, I’ve started letting people know when I’m upset and stopped saying sorry so much. This hasn’t always been smooth and has got me into trouble at work a couple of times (ironically requiring me to then apologise for my use of words), but I feel so much better knowing that the thing that upsets me can be confronted there and then. I’m still saying sorry of course, I don’t think I’ll ever stop, but I’m trying to say it when I mean it now rather than a blanket coverage for not facing up to what’s really going on.
