Dear melissa:

Thank you so much for sharing your lifetime experience here. I feel privileged to read it, to be trusted, even as an online person, with such sensitive and personal information, emotions, experiences of such a precious person, you…!

When I hear anything that even remotely sounds like someone is saying that … I live in the past and should snap out of it, I get triggered. You are very sensitive and perceptive to have noticed my strong reaction to what I perceived I read. I need to pay attention and think around my trigger so to read what is really being said.

I am so sorry you had such ongoing distress. I did too. You wrote that you did not have a moment of peace. What I realized is that the brain takes breaks from distress, mine did in the form of long, all day long day dreaming that were all absorbing and relaxing, I suppose. The brain cannot take non stop distress. If you look into your childhood, can you “see” breaks you took, moments, hours where you drifted away from the distress into maybe, make believe world, like mine, daydreaming?

I am so glad you are on this website. Please do post again… and again.

anita