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Old Nov 22, 2007, 08:50 PM
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Ah, but look how far you've come! You wouldn't have been able to talk about it at all, much less "calmly enough" before now! We have to get the poison out. It's okay that you don't remember the details anymore, things are fading a bit (but you might be starting to be afraid of remembering rather than what you remember! Watch out for that; fear of fear is not fun to get over, been there, doing that, and I'm "only" 57 :-)

I think you're doing well. You can pass for "normal" in the real world :-) But yes, the experience will follow you, is part of your life. You can't un-live that. But, hopefully, it will bother you less and less as you get older and older and live through other scary things and realize you're living through them okay, they're just "scary". Scary won't hurt you, it's just unpleasant.
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