Posted by shelliR on August 1, 2001, at 0:16:27
In reply to Re: Handholding Shelli » shelliR, posted by Lorraine on July 31, 2001, at 12:59:58
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> > > >Like I think if you are very good at something, it is okay to acknowlege it, because a talent is a gift, not a product of the ego, although using the gift may be.
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> I do this too. Drives my kids nuts. They think I should respond to compliments by saying "it's kind of you to say so".You have raised your kids to be very polite. That's good. They can understand the rest when they are older.
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> > > > A lot of people who were abused in early childhood have temporal lobe epilepsy.
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> I wasn't physically abused, if that's what you mean. I was emotionally abused--neglected more actually. I was severely traumatized as a child. But if it's physical injury, my hunch would be I sustained it in one of my car accidents--although those were fairly minor. The people at EEG Spectrum (the brainwave feedback place) asked me a lot of question about brain injury and thought perhaps the car accidents were the culprit.No I didn't mean just physical abuse; I just meant abuse in general and neglect is certainly a form of abuse.
>> I'm sure there is--as my pdoc says it's a matter of where you fall on the continuum. I'm not taking the diagnosis very seriously because of this.
Well, if you did, would there be a different treatment plan?
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> I felt ambivalent as well. I thought it would be like the scene in Wizard of Oz where the curtain flies up and you see that the wizard is really just an old man. But I was pleasantly surprised. He seemed to be a bright, caring and connected person. As I have said to him, psychobabble is a self selected group that has a number of great characteristics: generally bright people who believe in taking charge of their treatment options and doing research on their situation. Those characteristics alone are not that common in the general population.That's great. I don't regret not having met Dr. Bob and the two other people. I hadn't really had much of a sense of the two people who went; I hadn't been on the board that long. I thought, and still think for now I'd rather keep it on the board.
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I'm sorry that your first day on parnate was so awful. I've been working all evening, then answered two posts from Elizabeth and I am really tired. It's 1am est. But I'll check in with you tomorrow to see how you're doing and respond to the other posts.I hope you are able to sleep well tonight and that tomorrow is a better day.
Shelli
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