betsy and Nahanton are good friends of mine and I really
understand why they feel the way they do about this guy
and the whole CC. But before this gets into an unfriendly
war of words I also want to say that I appreciate Donna's
feelings and opinion and I think she expressed herself
very well. betsy and Nahanton can you please give her a
chance - without giving up any of your position and
passion? You all three are saying the same things: that
there's a Right and there is Wrong and we should abhor
Wrong and fight for Right, that child abuse is {no
word I can think of is strong enough} and that love
and compassion is the rightest of Right.

I'm sorry to butt in but I wanted give my support
to all three of you, and I would be sorry if this
discussion turned into an argument.

sorry to butt in.

nicky

sometimes the memories are simultaneous
it is like wandering an overbright library
or looking at old polaroids
everything is washed out and distant
and yet
the emotions drum with staccato rhythym
or steady heartbeat
and everything inbetween
and it is as if we have lived everywhere and nowhere
or perhaps wish to
and time is non-existent

mini spoiler about religion. I guess that's a hot topic around
here tonight. Not much. I am going to make just one reference
to going to a place of worship.

Today's one of those days where it's not bad it's just ...brown.

Lots of dead ends.

I was *really* enjoying 2nd life. I had a beautiful spot that I
would go to at the end of the day. It was on a beach with a tree
to rest against and a fire and palm trees and islands and night
time was beautiful and the sound of the surf. It was lovely.
There were a couple of scary people but it still felt safe. I
actually found a church I could visit, and a way to be in 2nd
life and sit and read books.

This is more positive than the other CNN article:

http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/15/herschel-walkers-alter-personaliti.../

The reader responses are quite interesting, without the negativism
that marked the reader responses to CNN's main article the other day
(in case you read those).

I wasn't really planning on doing so since I have never been a big
football fan (I didn't even know what team he played for), but I ended
up ordering the book from Amazon. I needed to make an unrelated
purchase and was about $6 short of what I needed to get free-shipping
so I spontaneously decided that it couldn't hurt to order the book. I
hope I don't regret it - I usually don't purchase things so
impulsively. It should come sometimes next week.

-scattered

People in the community I'm staying in have wanted to know what's
really going on with me, as they've sensed something's up. I've
started to open up a bit. Told a counselor at the place what I've been
up to. She was very supportive of me and listened well. Last night I
was ready to run to the library to be online late at night, and some
people at the house wanted to talk to me, to know what was up, to
express concern. It helped, and terrified me simultaneously. I was
switching a lot all day yesterday. And last evening. It's been
suggested I give other people at the house some info. about the
multiplicity and what they can do to support me when I seem little and
scared. scary that they want to offer support. scary it might not
happen right. (someone may think i'm making it up or....i don't know.)
and i don't want to become too dependent. but i'm talking about things
now.
today i'm trying to choose not to seek the dis. thing. it's HARD!!!!!!
alters mad and sad and terrified and all kinds of things. i'm trying
to move slowly, keep things simple, do the next right thing.
it's hard.
but if there's one thing i'm learning, it's that driven stubborn
willfulness doesn't help. it didn't help me when i ignored that that ...

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Hi babies. I have let lilpddle have the realm on line the past week or
so and have not been paying attention to the issues going through her
playmates on line.

At a quick glance, it feels like the children in group are having a
difficult time right now soooooo, I was hoping we could try to calm
things down a bit.

I wanted to leave this thread as a positive place to come to for the
time being. Littles need positive play to deal with the trauma that
they are experiencing so that they don't get so overwhelmed that it
leads to distress in the system.

In this room (thread), I want to hear littles tell stories (made up
fictional) and poems. I would like to play games such as hide and seek
or tag. Lets try to help the littles take a break from the "remembers"
and get some healthy play time in here.

lilpddle is taking a nap right now, we have to go see t today.
Thinking about using slunky's idea of negotiating an entire session to
lil.

Maybe a thought for the littles in group to consider since we all are
having some of the same stuff. t time is important too.

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I can see that a number of you suffer with painfully real flashbacks.
Is it wrong to want to experience that?
I mean, i get triggered by stuff, and i react to stuff (like the n*ked man
on the telly and we ran away and hid under the bed and cried and cried)
but i don't actually get anything... concrete.