Posted by alexandra_k on September 17, 2006, at 4:45:11
In reply to I told my husband **child abuse trigger**, posted by llrrrpp on September 16, 2006, at 22:33:44
> I'm not making a mountain out of a molehill.
You don't have to have suffered severe abuse to justify not making a mountain out of a molehill. Feelings are feelings. They are justified because they are.
> I feel ... so many things ... so confused. but somehow. I know it's going to be different. I will never be the same. I have started telling my secrets.
You were getting some place with therapy. You were focused on the present. Feelings and thoughts in the present that you were struggling with.
Now...
There is the 'tell your secrets of the past' (which are what makes present difficulty understandable) 'and then you will be cured' model.
Yeah. It can be a significant change...
A change in self identity even.
Focusing on past harms can make one identify quite strongly as a victim of past injustice.
There was stuff in the present...
You didn't feel comfortable telling your t your thoughts and feelings.
Do you feel like you have to be a happy bubbly person in order to earn love / acceptance?
I don't know what to say...
Sometimes the path splits and one can't go back.
I'm so sorry.
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