Worn Out

Sorry, everyone. I was hoping that I was up to blogging regularly again, but my life feels like it is spinning so out of control right now that I cannot catch my breath. As I have shared before, I have a difficult time separating out my child’s experiences from my own inner child. Despite my [...]

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Can’t Seem to Catch a Break

My son’s asthma has flared up again. Today was supposed to be a “catch up” day, and I am instead spending it on taking care of him, driving him into school late, and then running around getting paperwork together for the newest doctor that he saw yesterday for the first time (for his attention-deficit hyperactivity [...]

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I am Back and Ready to Simplify My Life

Hi, everyone! I am back from Disney World and ready to start blogging again. :0) The Disney trip was exactly what I needed. Starting with the fender bender in October, my life has been one fast roller coaster (mostly down) of a cancer scare, seeing my mother/abuser again, issues with my special needs kid in [...]

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On hiatus through next week

Hi, everyone. Sorry to disappear like that. My son and I are leaving for Disney tomorrow for a week. I had to play catch up from being sick as well as work ahead for being gone for a week, so I have not had a spare moment all week even to post a message. I [...]

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Silent Screams

My cold simply refuses to go away. It has moved to my voice box, and now I have lost my voice … again. I first came down with laryngitis as soon as I started having flashbacks. My therapist said that it was a metaphor for my childhood – that I had “lost my voice” as [...]

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What Songs Resonate With You re: DID, Abuse, etc.?

On my blog entry entitled How Many Actresses have DID?, a reader posted the following comment: There are many singers that I wonder if they are multiple from the words to their songs. ~ Diamond That got me thinking … What songs really resonate with you due to lyrics that relate to dissociative identity disorder [...]

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Importance of Taking Some Down Time

In many ways, I am surprised that I survived the last two months. First I had the H1N1 virus, and that coincided with a temporary doubling of my workload at my part-time job. From that, I went into a period of insomnia as I prepared to see my mother/abuser for the first time in six [...]

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How Can You Believe Preverbal Memories?

On my blog entry entitled Dealing with Memories from Preverbal Abuse, a reader asked the following question: i have been in therapy for one year now. I started having memories of being a baby, I still doubt that these things are real. I also have realized that I too have a baby alter. When the [...]

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How Many Actresses have DID?

Let me begin with a disclaimer – this blog entry is just my own opinion based upon my own observations watching biographies about different actresses. I have no firsthand knowledge of any of their lives, nor am I aware of any of them being diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID). Now that I have that [...]

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Body Shakes After Child Abuse

Happy New Year, everyone! Here’s hoping that 2010 will be a kinder year. Last year was a very trying one for me. On my blog entry entitled What is a Body Memory?, a reader posted the following comment: I have had these ‘fits’ a few times where my body shakes, and it is hard to [...]

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