Dear Joanna:

Thank you- I was hoping to tell you that I was feeling much better this Tues morning, but not yet and it is almost noon. Enjoy being in a warm home while watching the fresh snow through the windows!

“I thought maybe I had the worst experience and therefore I have all those symptoms“- I think that you did have one of the worst experience growing up with your mother, this is why I see so much commonality between the two of us. And because we were abused so similarly, we got broken in a multiple of places and in some of the same places (ex., tics).

With the imagery of a broken glass, what I mean is that some people, when they break, they develop psychosis, others develop tics, some proceed to get addicted to drugs (depending on the availability of drugs), etc.  Good news is that we can do a lot of fixing of these broken places, best we can, one day at a time, patiently.

anita