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Troy said:

I'm putting all the secrets back in the box and locking the lid. It was a mistake to think I could bring them to light, that things would be better if someone else knew the stories.


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Hi Troy....

I think it is important to remember that on sites or forums dealing with emotional and/or mental issues that you are going to be exposed and challenged with a variety of issues that might make you uncomfortable. It is a continuum we are all on and one persons progress or lack of it does not define the entire community.

I have been allowed to contribute in a variety of settings via this medium and have witnessed much of what you describe. Validation comes in many forms and one is confrontation...attention derived by critical assessment of another member...

My advice...don't play....

This forum..PC...I have found to be wonderfully accepting of people. The membership and staff make every effort to put another persons perspective in the mix,,rather than exposed as a target for our own issues...But,,that is only my opinion.

We are only as sick as our secrets and I hope you find a place where you are comfortable exposing them...for the shadows they create in our psyche are enormous and often cloud all aspects of living...

I truely hope it is here...because we all benefit from the light that emerges from an extinguished shadow...

Please be good to yourself...

Lenny