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Originally Posted by dumbfounded
I like that. "I can see you; therefore, you are."
Validation. What a crazy thought. we all need validation, to know that we are not the only ones feeling the things that we try to hide, try to make sense of and try to get past.
So I have to wonder if that is the point of all of this. Of a support group and talking to others who's emotions swirl around like a washer machine on spin cycle.... If it is all about validation?
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Having spent a great deal of my life knowing I had this disease and seeing what it can do from every angle, sometime it is about validation.
Usually for those new to the disease, validation is really necessary. I'd go so far to say that on those days when we're ready to end it all and jump off the planet, validation again is a necessary part of being able to cope for one more day.
It doesn't all come down to that simple matter though. More often than not, to me, I've found it's a huge search to answer the question "Why".
Something we never find the answer to, I might add, but the search is usually there in the background all the time. We simply have to learn to stop asking that question as it tends to stunt our lives.