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Poohbah
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Jan 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM
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When I was a boy my aunt threw me in the pool, and said sink or swim.
Well I swam. I am an excellent swimmer to this day. That is the way I feel about PC and my mental illness. I can't say how many times I have come to PC and found the answers I was looking for. I don't always know what to say, but I try anyways. Thanks to everyone that has posted. It's nice to have such a big support group. __________________ Life's too short to make trouble out of small things.Kurt Nilsen. Destiny, destiny protect me from the world. Radiohead Swimming in a sea of faces, The tide of the human race oh the answer now is what I need. See it in the new sunrising and see it break on your horizon, ohhh come on love stay with me. Cold play |
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Jan 21, 2013 at 12:51 PM
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Same here
 About the pool... my most merable funny memory.... Little Hershey - a hot dog jumping into a pool..... and all I could see were bubbles coming out of his nose.... Well, needless to say he surviwed.... LOL
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Jan 21, 2013 at 12:55 PM
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I was also taught to swim this way and was seriously traumatized by it. I still have flashbacks (nightmares & night terrors) of that horrified little kid desperately fighting for her life ... Not knowing if the abuser (mother) who threw me in would save me or not had me literally terrified of losing my life. I finally was able to grab a rung on the ladder and pull myself out. I think the cruelest part of it was how everybody else was laughing at me and calling me a baby for crying and being so frightened.
Those Bastards! 
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Jan 21, 2013 at 07:48 PM
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I've found this site helpful too, I'm not the most active member but even just lurking about and trying to pitch in when/if you can helps.
While we're on the swimming thing; I was taught to swim that way too, except it didn't work (I sank) and I've never stepped foot in a pool again. I'm actually the only person I know who can't swim. __________________ Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. |
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Jan 21, 2013 at 08:26 PM
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I was pushed into a lake by an older boy. To this day, I have no memory of what happened, including how I ended up out of the water. I cannot swim.
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Jan 22, 2013 at 07:20 AM
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I was traumatized by accidently getting into the deep end in a pool, and I wasn't a swimmer --- the life guard thought I was kidding when I was going down, and coming up hollering for help!
 Ummm, kidding??? I don't know how many quarts I swallowed before I got myself back to the edge of the pool -- but I was both traumatized and madder than a wet CAT at that life guard!!! To this day, I'm scared to death of deep water.  This site IS great -- very very helpful. 
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Jan 22, 2013 at 09:05 AM
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it is nice to have such a big forum to use... never did i think i've have one so big!
pool stories.... i remember i had this teacher teaching me to swim who was spanish- she kept saying to me, comon, dive off the diving board... but i was really scared of doing it eventually i pushed her off the board in sted- it was funny! |
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