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Arrow How to open up to boyfriend - February 25th 2019, 04:04 AM
Ive always had troubling opening up about my mental illness. Even more trouble opening up to people when things are really bad and I'm having a bad night.
My boyfriend gets upset when he finds out about a bad episode or panic attack I didn't reach out to him about, and reminds me I can always text him no matter what he's doing and he'll do what he can to help me, but no matter what I find it difficult to send the "help me" text. No matter what he says I feel like I'm bothering him, and that I shouldn't add more stress on him because he's already dealing with "insert situation". Point is I always talk myself out of telling him.
Does anyone else get this too? And of so what do you do to help get over not wanting to burden them?