Sometimes it becomes difficult to be myself
I became an adult this year.
I haven't been able to build good relationships since I was young. I felt betrayed by my partner from stories I heard from people, etc., and if I had distrust, I kept a distance from my partner instead of resolving it through discussions. Keeping a distance was something that clearly hurt the other party in a way that almost ignored it. This trend has been around recently, and it's really pathetic and I regret it. It makes me hate myself when I think of the fact that I was dealing with each other when I was in middle school and high school. I wonder why my friends around me have built good relationships but haven't been able to grow no matter how long it has passed. Also, even though I have hurt people myself, I haven't been able to overcome the experience of being hurt when I was in elementary school. It was when there was something like bullying, the target changed several times, and I became the target. More than half of the men and women in the class were spoken ill of, and things close to violence were done. I had a friend I was on good terms with, so my heart wasn't completely broken at that time, and I got through it, but at an unexpected moment, my memories of that time still come back to life, and it's like trauma. Currently, I have cut off interaction with people other than my friends that I was on good terms with at the time, but since my hometown is the same, and it often comes up in conversations with my friends, it's hard to remember.
Even though I've hurt people, I'm frustrated that I still haven't been able to overcome what was done in the past, and I feel nothing but disgust. It makes it harder to be myself.
Right now, I think what I can do is not hurt anyone any more, and I'm conscious not to repeat what I've done so far, but I'm afraid that I might get involved with people or hurt them, and I stopped interacting with people other than a certain amount of friends so as not to get involved too much at the school I'm currently attending. I feel like it's hard to live or somehow I'm not moving forward. I would like some advice on how to move forward.
