Thank you so much for your response, Anita. I find it fascinating that you’ve had a parallel experience and also that it was during your adolescence… you wouldn’t necessarily know this from my post, but I feel as if I never had a lot of the adolescence experiences others did and am seeking them now, as an adult. I am going to do my best to take your advice. 🙂
Because I see a lot of your posts and they have been useful to me, do you mind addressing the part about being overwhelmed by emotions? I can see that your teenage self was probably feeling a lot of the (overwhelming) things I am… what would you say to her?