Hi survivors
Thanks for the kind words, Muse. My rape happened many years ago and now I can look back on it and see that I am lucky to be alive. Maybe it will make me super aware and help me help someone else or I have already helped someone and I just didnt know it. Maybe I saved someone else and I don't even know it. My big issue is dealing with the loss of my husband. He has been deceased for going on 13 years now and I still mourn for him. I know that there is a lesson there for me and others there too. I just have to be brave enough to take it!

I enjoyed the survival lists
here's mine
I have survived
Suicides (not mine)
my own suicide attempts
Negative thinking
Self-help books
Domestic Violence
Raising Teenaged Boys
Raising Teenagers on Drugs (they were LOL)
My own drinking
Self-Doubt
The 80's
The 90's
Self Hate
Dr. L
Disco
Anorexia
Being hugely Fat
Feeling Ugly
Being Promiscuous
Bipolar Disorder
Hallucinations
My Mother....barely LOL
My Best Friends fatal car accident
My best friend in Jr. High being killed by a car accident
molestation as a child
being very bright as a child
being not so bright as an adult
being myself
lumpectomies
fibromyalgia
chronic draining horrible pain
celiac disease
being thrown from a moving car
being thrown from a moving horse
falling off a climbing wall
being beat up
breaking knuckles defending self
hysteria
mania
depression
despair
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But........I have nice hair..........!
So, its all worth it....LOL
And I rock a pair of Levi's. I paint like Dali,,,,J/K, I write like Hemingway....LOL, and I have some really sweet friends! ANd best of all, today I am on the healing road. On the spiders web of my Grandmothers. tee hee Love ya'll This thread makes me happy. Later gals and guys