Dear Joanna:

I returned from my walk a little while ago- no animal sightings, snow and ice is almost all melted- and I was thinking during the walk about your comment regarding my mother often threatening to commit suicide, you wrote: “It is still shocking to me“. When I first read it, I automatically thought to myself something like: it can’t be shocking, it was not that a big of a deal. I think that this is what dissociation is about, on my part.. anyway, before replying to you further in the morning, I was wondering if you can elaborate about the comment: what is shocking about it?

anita