@TrailRunner14

Thank you!

It's funny because I was just interacting on someone else's thread on PC, and I wrote this post in the interim, because I was just feeling tears well up a few minutes ago by feeling someone else's pain on PC as well as my own (similar traumas happen that way). In fact, I started feeling all this empathy for so many people here on PC that it started reminding me of my own pain (in a good way), which then brought on my tears.

My littles inside remind me as I'm typing that others are hurting, too. I could see the littles pointing their finger at the computer screen when they said that so-and-so needs a hug (which is why I typically include "safe hugs" now in my posts). Then the littles remind me that they need a hug and that I need a hug, too. The teddy bear is our safe object.

Thank you so much for sharing what you did. Your words really strengthen us. I'm still not yet there with the tears, but I'm closer than I was.

I have cried alone and in front of other people, but usually with an alternate outside or alongside me. Pillows help, since I don't have a teddy bear yet. I told myself that when I quit smoking and completely get all the smoke smell out, that's when I'll get a new and fresh-smelling teddy bear.

Thanks for helping me not feel so alone.

(((safe hugs)))