I printed this one out and into the journal for discussion with my therapist.

Having one's reality discounted, invalidated, belittled, ridiculed, questioned, examined, and so on tends to lead to skewed thinking and not believing ourselves. And the whole reality thing with PTSD gets all blurred and fuzzy at times with the past links and present triggers and files all astray in the mental cabinet.

It stinks!!

But this post is a goodie in how it expresses the fleeting glimpses we get of clarity on this or acceptance and whoosh off it goes and back to hopelessness.

This is yet another gold star for your T and two for you for bringing this here to share with us.

Rah! As far as learning to live with you we have been trying just as you keep trying. I said in another post you aren't a quitter and you sure aren't! Not everyone loves everyone else otherwise it would be rather creepy with all the agreement. All of us are learning to live with others here. Not everyone likes everyone else at the thanksgiving table with the extended family but we pass the potatoes as politely as we can and keep the food fights to a minimum.

Plus when someone says they LOVE the candied yams and we loathe the candied yams we don't really need to tell them in public how we feel about the yams, ya know? We can talk about yams another day another thread or even not at all. Yams may be the end all be all for some and others don't even know what a yam is...or care! (yam = sweet potato for our international crowd)

Like I said....this was a printout thread and into the journal it went. Thanks.