This thread has been a real comfort to me. I have carried around the feeling that I am just ultra sensitive, and that the kinds of things I lived through as a child were really not that bad, and that I was just too sensitive, and therefore it affected me too much. I totally understand the guiness world record comment. I feel the same way even still. I even go farther and think of all the poor people in the world that I see on the nightly news, suffering through one calamity and the next, and then I feel really stupid and selfish for ever being affected so negatively by my own situation. But I'm slowly learning that you can't compare things like this, and that things that seem smaller or more subtle can still make a major impact. It's hard. I'm still learning. Good luck, and thanks for posting this.

Briar