I guess mine's pretty self explanatory really! "Avoidant" - minimising or avoiding social interaction with others. It was totally that way 12 months ago, although choosing that name to come on this forum with the aim of interacting with more people was a bit illogical I suppose
Maybe it's time to think of changing it..........

Well, I had another one and I miss it, but siblings were using my laptop and I wasn't good about closing down the site, then got very scared that my other name would give me away, so I switched to this one to be more anonymous... Probably too paranoid. I want my other one back.

(((RED)))

Haha. Very funny. Though very revealing.

(((POPPET)))

Aw, now I like your new screen name even more. Does Poppet actually mean something? Is it a flower? Or the English spelling of puppet?

(((REDTOMATO)))

Though now I see your screen name as a sense of where you are going, like in the book The Secret. It's a vision of who you want to be, what you would look like if you liked yourself.

Diva....need I say more?

(((Liese))) I think poppet is an English term of affection usually shown to young children. My Nan used to called me and my sister that sometimes!!

Poppet,
I don't paint I'm a potter & mostly work on the wheel, although some sculpture too. I do Lifecasting too.
I miss my studio.....& my mud pies

I guess mine is because I am always smiling. I figure if you smile everyone thinks all is good and that's that. It's not really me it's this smiley person who's always "just fine"
Every once in a while, I can let the real me out. Like sometimes here and with my t.

I like turtles.

When I joined the forum I was reading "The Wise Heart: Understanding the Principles of Buddhist Pyschology" by Jack Kornfield. He wrote a lot about compassion. I don't remember it all very well now, but basically he suggested that as a way of relating to feelings and to pain-- your own pain and that of others, the pain of the world-- you don't so much "do" anything with it as honor it, acknowledge it, "hold it in compassion."

Anyway, I liked the concept so hence the name. I've thought of changing it a few times because it can sound kind of passive, or as though maybe I meant it in reference to my therapy relationship (I don't). I'm a little tired of it really, but I haven't thought of a better name yet. It's also a bit ironic, because I'm really not very good at having compassion for myself! So maybe it's more indicative of a goal than a state I experience much.

Anyway, this is a cool thread. I've loved reading about the stories behind the names, from those of you who have shared.

Hi Held,

I have that book! We have so much in common.

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Hi Held,

I have that book! We have so much in common.

Yay! We so cool.

i have been told that i'm difficult to get close to. when i joined the forum it was early in my therapy and T made reference to somebody we were talking about, how it sounded like i was "damaged" (ugh) in the same way as this individual. later, we were talking about one of my daughters, who's been having difficulties. T said i could say to my daughter "do you want to grow up with closed doors, like me ...". it seemed appropriate at the time, like alot of others. i wasn't crazy about it as of late, but then came across the quote about close doors and thought it rather appropriate and hopeful, which i am in dire need of. so, i'm sticking with it for now.

It is a really cool quote, CD.

My name Somedays is named after a song by The Waifs. Here are the lyrics. The song always speaks to me.

Some days are just like this,
Some days I can’t get my arse out of bed

Some days they just drag on and on.
And one day One day can feel like a whole lifetime

Some days I feel god himself is smiling down upon me
Some days I swear too that the devil has got my soul

Some days I fall to that darkness and some days I crawl from that hole

Some days, I just want to ditch my responsibilities
And leave behind dirty dishes, dirty floors

I got a man and I got family who love me well
Some days I kind of ask what the hell is all for

Some days I just want to walk into the wilderness
The solitude well it puts my mind at ease

I figure god is out there somewhere
Some day I need something to believe

Some days I am leaning on my 12 step program, meetings, testimony get me through

Most days I got a drink in my hand
Cos most days I can’t stop thinking about you

Some days are like this
Dragging my feet on the ground
Some days they feel like lost time

These are the days I wish you were still around

I wish you were still around.

thanks (((HIC))) i like it too

(((SD))) those lyrics cover alot of ground, don't they?

Great stories about the names!
(((SD))) I like those lyrics! I'll have to look up the song.

My name means wisdom warrior. An ex-boyfriend gave me that name after hearing my divorce horror story. Unfortunately, I saw some red flags in that relationship too, so I broke it off.

Athenacus - there is a version on Youtube of them singing it, not a great version - but it is good enough. Please google it - it is beautiful. Having the lyrics and them singing it is awesome.

This song is constantly in my head. I play it every day when driving and esp to and from therapy.

SD

I have green eyes

I named one of my resumes this...you know one of those sites where you can have several.

I also figured I better use hopeful instead of "not hopeful" or else there would be no hope. That sounds kind of sad but was true for a while.

This was good because I often wondered what some others' names came about.

I am shy and gentle, like a wild rabbit. I am small and quick to dart away I freeze when I'm really scared.

I have good hearing and prefer listening to speaking. I have to listen well, because I am afraid to look. But when I'm really scared, I cannot make sense of the words T is saying.