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Any advice for me in Ireland who doesn’t feel heard or understood?
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Hi, Stefan. Could you give us a little more context.
If you are heard and misunderstood, there are ways to increase your powers of expression. If you just feel like no one cares enought to listen, that's a usual enough complaint to be considered normal health.
If you "pretend" that no one is ever going to listen and understand, it can make you very quiet and enhance your own listening powers. Is there someone that you value and listen to carefully.
Some find their sense of value in work that helps others.
Others get interactive pets. Dogs are especially valued in this context
If you have children, you get a couple of good years of listening before the many years of opposition.
What are the usual methods that you have tried?
Can you tell us what it is that you wish the people who surround you would hear and understand?
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So I have speech problems with my cleft palate but apart from that, I don’t feel heard or understood when I want to talk about what’s happening with me or why I feel sad sometimes. I know people care about me but no one really knows or understands my feelings and the pain of trying to talk about things like my childhood PTSD etc. I value a lot of people, but I also don’t want to waste their time when they’re busy. I just rather help others with their needs before helping myself cause of how I was raised in the orphanage tbh.