I hope all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving! For those who are in pain, do the best you can to nurture yourself and remember that this time will pass. You are going to be okay.
I am going to be busy cooking Thanksgiving dinner for the first time without my mother-in-law’s help. (She passed away last December.) Also, my son is out of school until Monday, so I won’t have much time to blog for the next few days.
You will all be in my thoughts throughout the holiday because I am so thankful for all of you. I started this blog because I wanted to help others. I never dreamed how much wonderful support that I would receive from my readers. You are the best!
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Thank you and right back at ya.
Happy Thanksgiving to you as well Faith.
barbi
I am very thankful to have found you dear Faith. I hope you have a lovely and stress/trigger-free holiday.
Peace and love,
mia
Enjoy your holiday Faith!
FGO
Thank you Faith, and I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving!
Hello Faith, and a happy thanksgiving to you. I know you probably covered this somewhere, but i can’t find it and i’m at a rough place and i thought i might as well ask. Simply put, how do you know whether the abuse that occured to you (You being person in general, not specifically) and isn’t just a made up thing? I guess what i’m saying is, i don’t believe the memories that i have are real. I think their fake, or something. I just, they can’t be real you know?.= But i have no way to confirm or deny my memories and i’m running into a lot of emotional problems because of it. And i’m a psych major, and i know it’s possible to acciedently implant memories and stuff like that… just, i was hoping you might have some insight.
Sorry to ruin such a happy occasion as thanksgiving with my whining, but i’m kinda lost right now and i could really use any advice i could get and i didn’t know how to contact you any other way then posting this as a comment. Thanks.
Hi, Matthais.
I just wrote on this topic recently:
http://faithallen.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/how-do-you-know-a-if-memory-is-real/
Bottom line — People who have not been traumatized do not experience flashbacks. Also, if the flashbacks/recovered memories help explain the puzzle of your life, consider believing them. I always had so many seemingly unrelated things “wrong” with me — eating disorder, suicidal urges, OCD, nightmares, etc. — that did not make sense. The memories of the trauma finally made my life make sense.
Feel free to email me if you want to talk outside of the comments. My email address is posted under “About Faith Allen” in the upper right corner of the blog in blue. I don’t post it anywhere else to avoid spammers.
Take care,
- Faith