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Posted by trouble on March 18, 2002, at 5:49:10
Hey all,
Well I just found another on-line resource specific to people dealing w/the effects of psychic trauma, and I feel relieved. Just to know they're out there, in case I need them.
Now it's just a matter of finding out how fragile these people are and if my intensity would be appropriate there. I read a few threads and so far it's alot of early stage realization that the past is impairing their present. There appears to be quite a bit of "WARNING!" messages affixed to the headings, and the improper use of the word "trigger" to signify "activate" which was driving me out of my tree so I had to get out of there before I committed a faux pas of my own. Or fifty. What a lovely way to introduce myself, post 50 individual corrections about the same word. Don't think it didn't occur to me.
I'm not comfortable when the exact same word appears in 50 differnt posts, man. Vogue usage, now, that's a paddlin.
I posted a greeting, and managed to restrain my impulses, but I guess this is just a personal quirk that happens to destabalize me. I confess to having defaced a public library book on PTSD last year by crossing out the word trigger, triggers and triggering and writing in appropriate substitutions, which number in the dozens, but none of which was used, not once, when the word trigger would suffice, which averaged around twice per sentence. Why any author would think a reasonably educated person would put their damaged psyche into the hands of a lazy slob is beyond me, though I now realize that ruining a library book is no way to advance the discussion.
I know I'm supposed to be looking for healing, not exactitude, but for me, healing and exactitude are eternally inseparable.
love,
trouble
Posted by Zo on March 18, 2002, at 6:08:13
In reply to PTSD ONLINE SUPPORT GROUP, posted by trouble on March 18, 2002, at 5:49:10
> Well I just found another on-line resource specific to people dealing w/the effects of psychic trauma, and I feel relieved. Just to know they're out there, in case I need them.You may need the, but are they ready for the likes of you? I point you to, why, it's your very own sentence!
> Now it's just a matter of finding out how fragile these people are and if my intensity would be appropriate there.
>. . .which was driving me out of my tree so I had to get out of there before I committed a faux pas of my own. Or fifty. What a lovely way to introduce myself, post 50 individual corrections about the same word. Don't think
it didn't occur to me.You showed remarkable restraint.
> I know I'm supposed to be looking for healing, not exactitude, but for me, healing and exactitude are eternally inseparable.
>Exactly. And here's what I think, I think, Why not be picky about one's recovery, where it finally counts.
Zo
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