Posted by crazymaisie on September 19, 2004, at 23:22:15
In reply to Re: dissociation/memories/dreams*posstrigger*, posted by daisym on September 19, 2004, at 22:38:31
hi Daisy,
thanks for your response and your kind words. i'm glad you responded particularly because it gives me the chance to thank you for always being so open and honest on this board about your struggle. you strike me as very brave in the face of such great difficulties.
i'm trying not to push myself into doing anything i'm not ready for. my T advises against this, too, but is open to dealing with whatever i feel i am ready for. i'm a stay-at-home-mom with two small kids (a son of 5 and a daughter of 1) so i'm also aware of the kind of distress opening up all these wounds may cause and the effect it might have on my children. i went into therapy 7 months ago with a bad depression and i still worry about what my state at that time did to the children, particularly my son. however, i am lucky to have a very very supportive and loving and understanding and strong husband to keep our family moving in the right direction.
i wrote down last night's dream as soon as i woke up, detailing as much as i could of it. of course, i knew i had lost some of it just trying to find a pen. it was useful, though, because even when i read it again this evening there were certain things i had already forgotten. i'll certainly keep trying to do that. i would love to have pictures of myself as a child, but unfortunately i don't have any contact with my family anymore and in any case my parents had a fire in their house a few years ago in which i suspect that any photographs were destroyed. i'm not in a position to ask anyway.
can you tell me more about the therapy workbooks you referred to? i would be interested in finding out about them.
good luck with your journey and thanks again
maisie
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