Daily Archive for December 14th, 2009

On Being Average

Published on December 14, 2009 in Abuse, Letters Home, PTSD and Relationships. 2 Comments

I know… well I fear that each time I’m going to vomit then sleep for hours, then get up and go about my business as if nothing happened at all. I wonder if I’m ever going to be normal in this way or if it’s always going to be like this. How do I know what’s normal and what’s not and how do I know if my mother was lying or not? At this point does it even matter if the way I was raised was a lie since it is so ingrained in me? Does it really matter if it was a lie or not since I treat it as truth?  It’s as “natural” to believe it as it is to open my mouth and give up dinner.

I have so many questions and even a young girl’s giggling curiosity.

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Your Face On TV

Published on December 14, 2009 in Depression and Soapbox. Closed

Dear Family Member,

I am utterly humiliated that I saw your face on television arrested for such dangerous behavior. I am sickened by the comments I see on Facebook and in the newspaper about what should be done to you. You should go to jail. You should lose your job. You should be stripped of this, that and the other, etc, etc. I am totally appalled by your behavior and like others who have had a family member’s face put on TV wish this to. go. a-way.

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