Posted by Racer on July 30, 2006, at 0:35:12
In reply to why, posted by sunnydays on July 29, 2006, at 22:02:58
I'm in the same boat.
My T laughed at me when I said that I really needed to be able to accept that these things happened: said Kubler-Ross's stages of grief applied, and that I had to go through the Denial, Anger, Bargaining, and Depression before I could get to Acceptance. I'm not sure I entirely agree, but she's right much more often than not, so I'm trying to explore that. She's probably right.
Right now, I'm stuck in Denial, though, on a lot of it, because I can't quite get to Anger. I can kinda feel it, but the same trauma that's given me a week's worth of nightmares this week also capped my budding acquaintance with anger. I know it's there, but I am too afraid to let any of it out.
Good luck, and feel free to post about it here, or babblemail me, or just vent.
Heck, if you go back through the archives, you'll find long periods when I did nothing except whine. Oh, not quite true -- there were a lot of "yes, but's" in there, too...
People were pretty tolerant of me, and I'm still here, which I think bodes pretty well for you...
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