Posted by Poet on October 12, 2004, at 12:33:33
In reply to shame, posted by just plain jane on October 12, 2004, at 1:59:06
Jane,
<<I still fight against that drowning pull of shame, of being bad.
<<It still hurts, even though it is a memory, a ghost.
<<Shame is a manipulative tool to beat someone('s self) to an emotional pulp. It is a voracious disease which could eat you alive, leaving in its wake a shell of fear and self hatred.
<SHAME is BAD.
I wish you didn't understand shame so well. Everything you said is true and your childhood sounds very much like mine.
Shame and blame, they did it to me and then I took over and started doing it to myself. A bad habit and one that I have yet to break.
WE ARE NOT BAD!!! NOT, NOT, NOT!
Poet
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