Chronological Abuse Time Line Help

hi - my t wants me do 2 do a chronological abuse time line. makes it feel too real. if you did this, what format did u use? needing encouragement and ideas on how to format it. <font color="brown"> </font>

I had to do something similar for a Loss History once. I used MicroSoft Word, and set up a 2 column table with, say a row for each loss...for you it would be each abuse event you want to write about. That might be 10 rows or 100 rows.

Column # 1 would be your age at the time. Column # 2 would describe the event. In Word, the text would wrap around so you could write as little or as much as you want.

That's how I would do it, but I'm comfy with using Word and the Table formatting. Maybe others can think of another way?

emmy

I had read a few posts earlier, thought about what I had wanted to say, then came back to reply.. like I had mentioned in another post (having a bad day today and cannot remember which I had meant this reply for):

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what I've been slowly doing is using loose leaf paper, colored pens and a binder..

I assigned a different color ink to each person who has hurt me.. on a piece of paper I'll start by summarizing the event and dating it the best that I can..

then as I feel the strength to write about it, I put details below.. if another person who has hurt me is in someway involved, I will mention their involvement in their color ink.. I also put a mark in their color ink up top the paper to emphasize that this other person played a part in the incident..

as I finish a paper on an incident, I will add it to my binder chronologically where it belongs..

by not trying to go straight in a time line, I can focus on as much as I feel like I can handle in a day and then place i where it belongs.. and by color coding it all, it makes it easier for me to reference later or for others to quickly be able to understand where things were coming from.. also, since it's a binder, if I find I remember the dates wrong or if I recover a memory I had forgotten, it's easier to put it in it's proper place..

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I hope that helps..

~ Beth