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Thankyou for yor comment- I take it that you have suffered too from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder? you are right about the frustration bit too!


Thanks once again....P.S. Are you really that old!! lol

Yeah, CandiceLeeTaylor. My wife thinks I should be classified as antique. And I feel even older now I know you can count! (lol)

PTSD? I once grimaced a lot and showed my frustration by shouting out gibberish in public places for reasons which are beyond my level of knowledge. I've never taken pills for anything and vent my frustrations by walking miles and swimming widths! Seems to keep me calm.

Many thanks for your uplifting post.

Does it ever get easier to deal with?

Yes it does get easier to deal with, CandiceLeeTaylor. Here's the way I dealt with it.

First, I stood back, looked myself then looked at the world and my part in it. Second, where once I'd speak my mind or blow my top, I mellowed and became more analytical rather than critical. Third, I accepted that even an idiot should express a point of view. Fourth, I began to look at the world knowingly even if I wasn't at all sure that my interpretation of what I saw was correct. Fifth, I accepted the fact that some problems should be left to those who job it is to solve them.

Now I'm 100% content with who I am and what I am. Not one of the pack as I once thought but an individual within it. I thus see the world as being full of a thick mist of fog within which there are problems and solutions. I really do enjoy searching for them. Encountering friendly people such as yourself is an added bonus. That your individuality shines through your writings as bright as a searchlight is a multiple bonus!

I hope you find this helpful, and thank you for your interest.

Best wishes.

You are so right, It's just that I get so tired of having waking nightmares from my past. As much as I wish that I could just forget about a lot of events from my past and what was done to me, I know that it is not going to happen - it is with me every minute of every day, and sometimes I'm too tired to face up to it.

More to the point I don't feel like I can deal with it anymore.

Please don't let bad memories of the past spoil your present and future life, CandiceLeeTaylor. When something has happend in our lives there's nothing we can do to turn the clock back and stop whatever it was that happend. So, as you imply, we have to deal with the consequences of what happend.

It could be that we want some form of retribution for what someone did to us. Or we may have accidently fallen from a height and are now have to live with disability for for life. We may have developed a terminal illness and are living on time given by those who care for us or by prescriptive drugs. We have to live with these things in whatever way which best serves a purpose. Not a happy scene, I know, but a scene nonetheless.

So no matter what horror story that each of us could tell, there's always someone, somewhere whose horror story would put all other horrors to the bottom of the list. Many find solace in writing about their horrors Yet others go to sleep by imagining a land with fields of beautiful flowers flowing to and fro in a gentle breeze, or a pool filled with lillypond flowers with dragon flies flitting happilly hither and dither. Some simply fantasise as to how they would spend the millions to be won in a cashprize lottery. All presently achieveable, pleasurable dreams. Nightmares of the past become fewer and fewer until they are banished to where they belong. In the dustbin of personal history. You've then got your life back.

So go for it, CandiceLeeTaylor. It won't be easy, I know. But I also know that the rewards of effort are priceless. I'm sure everyone on this site will join me and use their best psychic heaaling powers to help you
on your journey.

Best wishes.

I'm going on holiday tomorrow for 24 days, Candice. I come home on Xmas Eve. Here's wishing you the best of all Xmasses.

14 days, Candice, not 24.

Thankyou you are right, you have made me realise that I should start appreciating the good thing that i have in my life and with them the memories that I have. I suppose no matter how bad things are we can always be sure that their is someone in the world who's life circumstances are worse.

Everything that I have ever dreamed of was achieved three years ago when I moved from a place of such hell and suffering. For ten years I wanted a family who loved me, and not to be hurt any more. Although it was hard and at times very painful, and perhaps a test of endurance at least I can say that I got through it and have achieved what in my view needed to be achieved.

I know that I have to work really hard for what I want if I want it to pay off, and I have to make sure that the victim that I once was is left in my past because I do not want to be a victim of my past for the rest of my life.

Thanks Whilwrite

Candice X

Phew! What a relief, CandiceLeeTaylor. I'm in Tenerife now (Yippee!). I'm so glad you replied to my comments.

I'm thinking of ways to write about your emotions in a non-fiction format. See! You've given me something to think about, and I thank you for that.

It's the 11th December and It's very warm here. I can keep in touch because there's a comp everywhere I go. it's brill.

Go for it, whatever IT is, Candice, and please keep in touch. You can at least make a start to help me by taking a look at my last piece on the Body Family.

Thanks again for your comments. (wow!)