Working through past issues...

I'm currently working through some issues from my recent past, some things that happened in the past year or so that still cause me a lot of emotional distress. I had some nightmares last night that brought up these issues, and it's like I'm re-living those experiences. Almost like post-traumatic-stress.

I'm dealing with them by writing out my feelings in my journal, how I reacted to them now and how I still react to those issues today. I'm following that up by working through my Facing Codependence workbook. I'm at the point in the workbook where I start to point out my extreme, all-or-nothing thinking or reacting to situations. Like when I am in a relationship with a woman, and she criticizes me on something, I react as if the relationship is now over and done with and I'm a complete failure. I need to learn how to react to things in a moderate, compromising way, and to not always assume the worst.