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In Reply to: Re: Making real friends. Can it be done? posted by MG on November 15, 2002 at 05:08:34:
First - yes, I think we all relate to that. Who can we trust to tell about our past? Most people do not understand and wouldn't have a clue what we went through and are going through. It's just not beneficial to even bring it up for the most part. And what for? Why do they need to know? Like my brother told me once, "I just want to know you as you are today, not as you were in the past."
Second - your dreams. I still have those too. I have dreams where I’m back in a F. home or with my exhusband again, it’s so spooky. The last few years I’ve been regularly reading this column from a dream therapist. She advises in her column that often in our dreams we revisit areas in our lives that were traumatic and that this is a way of our psyche dealing with something that affected us adversely and that’s why we have nightmares or dream about them. So, I would look at this as a way of your psyche dealing with all those adverse memories and working them out - like an iron, smoothing out the wrinkles and rough spots. It’s probably going to be an on-going process - think of all the memories.
