Ask HN: How did you rebuild yourself after having hit rock bottom?
Sounds like you are a sensitive, thoughtful and feeling individual. And you are reaching out to more people, strangers, presenting yourself as a massive pile of broken glass - a poetical description suggesting you&#x27;d like to talk about yourself  in the context of a Feeling &lt;&gt; Thinking self-ideation. (ADVICE: you might want to naturally add more of that to your life, e.g. a regular poetry class, or write a daily Haiku, so EXPRESSING YOURSELF BECOMES YOUR LIFE.)<p>ADVICE: it&#x27;s going to continue to require mindfulness, ongoing for the rest of your life in order to maintain the kind of mood-state that you desire.<p>Sounds like you label yourself as week and unhealthy thinking. Soooooo ADVICE ... challenge that as being &quot;correct for the moment&quot; and &quot;maladaptive&quot;. It&#x27;s still adaptation. And you&#x27;ve got a long life ahead of you to update your Stimulus &gt; Response chain brain.<p>ADVICE: Look for healthy activities which support your mood - for me it&#x27;s simple daily exercise - and look for thought-patterns that help &quot;tank&quot; you, with the aim of recognizing them when they pop up again. Counselor can help you recognize, &quot;Oh that was a boost for me, I&#x27;ll think about how to incorporate more of that into my routine.&quot;<p>ADVICE: Give therapy SIX MONTHS to show signs. AND tell the counselor the Criticism that you tell us, here, EVERY SESSION in some little or big way, for that six months, until it changes. The counselors can be there to guide YOUR thinking and action, not to do the living FOR YOU.<p>STORY A reason they could be saying &quot;do things you like&quot;, is because you don&#x27;t appear to do things you Truly like, from their perspective. Typically with children of Narcissists, the child&#x27;s emotional needs are neglected. Sooooooooo you might be underdeveloped in a few ways around self-fulfillment. Google &quot;CEN neglect narcissist&quot;. Accomplishments aside, what makes you happy, and what do you want?