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  • March 5, 2017 at 10:34 am #135951
    Anonymous
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    Dear BothSidesNow:

    Very often, when people talk about politics and social justice, what they are really talking about, right underneath the issues supposedly discussed, is their own hurts and fears and anger at their own personal injuries, traumas and injustice.

    In your post above, there is this sentence: “Lately, I have found myself wanting to kill myself because of being white.”-

    This is not about you being white. Your thinking brain is attaching your distress to being white. Clearly, the solution to social injustice, past and present, is not mass suicide of white people, is it?

    Truth is, clearly, that you are in pain, personal pain. Will you tell more about your personal pain? I’d like to read more, to understand. I would so much want you to feel better, soon enough… and heal. Maybe telling more, here, will help…

    anita

    March 5, 2017 at 11:18 am #135953
    BothSidesNow
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    Anita,

    I sometimes wonder if mass suicide of white people is the solution.

    I don’t even know where to start with my personal pain, to be honest. Does my pain even matter?

    March 5, 2017 at 5:10 pm #135973
    Anonymous
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    Dear BothSidesNow:

    Of course it matters. Yes, your pain matters. Your pain matters no less than any other person, regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation… ethnicity, financial status, neighborhood, country…

    Please do start somewhere and tell about your personal pain. I do want to know.

    anita

    March 6, 2017 at 12:50 am #136037
    Jahrin
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    Hi BothSidesNow,

    Once you see or think outside you conditioning or the way you have been conditioned to think, you will realise that you have so much to offer as one of the progressive members of your society.

    Your health and wellbeing and internal peace, though all things you can work on and achieve, are all important and vital to you ability to progress the ignorant and disillusioned people around you.

    Wiuld love to hear more on your thoughts,

    Best wishes,

    Jahrin

    March 7, 2017 at 11:19 am #136619
    BothSidesNow
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    I really don’t even know where to begin. I feel so awful and in such a deep depression that I don’t think I can put words to how I’m feeling.

    March 7, 2017 at 11:59 am #136641
    Anonymous
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    Dear BothSidesNow:

    Best would be competent psychotherapy for you, at this point, to provide for you the safe environment for you to express a bit of your pain, just a bit to start. You need to feel safe enough to not fall apart, to know you will be okay. This may not be that place for you.

    But if you feel at any one time that it may be the place, at least in communication with me here, you are welcome to express just a bit of your pain. I will respond to you with empathy and respect. And so, you will be safe- in the context of this website- in communication with me.

    You wrote that you wouldn’t know where to begin- a place to begin is the beginning, the young you, the child that you were, your first memory of feeling then the way you feel now.

    If and when you can, that is.

    * Will soon take a break and be away from the computer for a while.

    anita

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