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Playing Jenga with my life?
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My life is based on some personal values and beliefs. During the treatment in the last few months I often got confused. Confused about my feelings, confused about my relationships to other people, people that are close to me, confused about the memories that keep popping up out of nowhere.
As I am going deeper in the past - I ask myself: If these situations steered the course of my life, impacted on my life so signifcantly to cause me mental and physical issues now - then who am I? I feel like I am playing Jenga with my life. What if I take out a core relationship and everything just falls over? Can I accept that I hate a person I was meant to love? Can I forgive and move on? Can I accept that I love and hate that person? Then there are other people that have caused so much grief in my life and changed my life forever, but it was not their fault. I have moved away physically, but also removed my heart because I cannot bear the pain. I have learnt how to look excited when opening a present, when to laugh if people are laughing, how to mingle in public, but I don't feel it. I can also detach when being sad, change face in an instant. Have I just built a pretty facade? Put the Jenga pieces on top of each other without making sure the foundation is ok? I am going back so far in my past, that I am worried what I may find out about myself. I am worried to start questioning the core relationships I have now - and then what?
Are there others here that are working through childhood/young adulthood trauma? How have you coped? Am I over thinking this?
I am safe and I know I will be able to get up from this chair and do something to distract myself. But I needed to ask this question, as it has popped up so many times over the last few months, and I think I just figured out, why this confuses me so much.
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Dear Yggy,
Thanks for the update. Sounds like you are going through a full range of emotions right now.
Please dont feel obliged to get back to us. Just let us know when you feel you want to.
I am thinking of you also.
Sherie xx
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Dear Neil,
I hope you are okay. I've been missing you in this thread the past week and I hope you and your family are okay. I hope nothing I wrote has upset you.
Take care my friend, Yggy
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Oh well, wow!!
6 years on and what an epic fall! I knew the questions but I had no idea how bad it would get… how can life in the present seem so much worse than life back then? Or did I just vacate that little body?
To this day I still wonder if I would have been able to suppress my past if I never said that first little word, ask for that little bit of help hoping it would all be sorted within a couple of months, like a sore finger. Delusional?
Well that little Jenga game of mine definitely collapsed more than a few times but apparently I’m still putting those stupid little blocks back in top of eachother…
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