Trauma – PTSD

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Les – you are right. This is the best possible news.  I’m so happy for you and for your dad tooo. – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -Hello everyone! I am back from my little vacation at home. Actually, I can’t stop crying right now, but it’s not bad tears, it’s happy tears. Let me tell you what happened. Everything went okay with going home. I had a really good time. But I totally chickened out on telling my dad stuff. Yet at the same time I knew I HAD to. for myself. So I finally, with a lot of support from a couple of friends, wrote a letter to my dad telling him even more than I could ever bear to tell face to face. I said i had ptsd, that I hid a lot back in high school, that i’m in counseling, and that i was taking the meds. Anyway, I slipped the note on the kitchen counter when my dad and I left for the train station. I just got back and turned on my computer and there was an email from my dad. I was still totally afraid of what he’d say. But like I said, I’m so relived and happy right now I’m crying. I am sooo thankful for all of you who helped me find the strength to do this. My dad said he was actually relieved I was in counseling and that he actually had even tried to get me to go way back when (in high school – i thought he was against it though – he just said he knew i wasn’t ready). He even said that he went through depression after i went to school and he was alone, and he was even getting a bit sickish from it, and considered taking anti-depressants. basically, it was just the best response I could have hoped for. and that he feels bad he kept things from me and hopes we can open up communications better now. i can’t express how happy i am about that. it was one of my biggest fears in life. as far as the counseling thing, well i’m hoping that now if i tell the counselor about this, he’ll be more into trying again. i think a big thing holding me back and he knew this was that i felt like i was going against what my dad wanted and i couldn’t betray him like that. i don’t know. i will have to see how that goes. but now i don’t have to hide anything and that is such a big relief i can’t even put it into words. well, i hope everyone else is doing okay. i can’t really catchup on all the old posts i missed, but i will keep reading the new ones. thanks for everything les.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello everyone! I am back from my little vacation at home. Actually, I can’t stop crying right now, but it’s not bad tears, it’s happy tears. Let me tell you what happened. Everything went okay with going home. I had a really good time. But I totally chickened out on telling my dad stuff. Yet at the same time I knew I HAD to. for myself. So I finally, with a lot of support from a couple of friends, wrote a letter to my dad telling him even more than I could ever bear to tell face to face. I said i had ptsd, that I hid a lot back in high school, that i’m in counseling, and that i was taking the meds. Anyway, I slipped the note on the kitchen counter when my dad and I left for the train station. I just got back and turned on my computer and there was an email from my dad. I was still totally afraid of what he’d say. But like I said, I’m so relived and happy right now I’m crying. I am sooo thankful for all of you who helped me find the strength to do this. My dad said he was actually relieved I was in counseling and that he actually had even tried to get me to go way back when (in high school – i thought he was against it though – he just said he knew i wasn’t ready). He even said that he went through depression after i went to school and he was alone, and he was even getting a bit sickish from it, and considered taking anti-depressants. basically, it was just the best response I could have hoped for. and that he feels bad he kept things from me and hopes we can open up communications better now. i can’t express how happy i am about that. it was one of my biggest fears in life. as far as the counseling thing, well i’m hoping that now if i tell the counselor about this, he’ll be more into trying again. i think a big thing holding me back and he knew this was that i felt like i was going against what my dad wanted and i couldn’t betray him like that. i don’t know. i will have to see how that goes. but now i don’t have to hide anything and that is such a big relief i can’t even put it into words. well, i hope everyone else is doing okay. i can’t really catchup on all the old posts i missed, but i will keep reading the new ones. thanks for everything les.

This is wonderful news!!! I am so happy for you. Isn`t it a huge load off your shoulders? It sounds like you have a *great* father, cherish him Jackie ~~We are born into the world like a blank canvas. And every person that crosses our path, takes up the brush and makes their mark upon our surface, so it is that we develop. But we must realize that there comes a day that we must pick up the brush and finish the work. For only we can determine if we are to be

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Hi Les and welcome home! I am so glad that it worked out for you the way it did.  You found a way to do what you wanted to do, and that is what it is all about.  I hope that this brings you and your dad closer together and that there will be more happier times ahead for both of you.  Keep up the great work.  :)J — "Just when you think life sucks, someone hands you a vacuum cleaner; it is at this time you start cleaning some house". J  Visit me at:  http://members.ync.net/jdgalvin/index.html

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Hello everyone! I am back from my little vacation at home. Actually, I can’t stop crying right now, but it’s not bad tears, it’s happy tears. Let me tell you what happened. Everything went okay with going home. I had a really good time. But I totally chickened out on telling my dad stuff. Yet at the same time I knew I HAD to. for myself. So I finally, with a lot of support from a couple of friends, wrote a letter to my dad telling him even more than I could ever bear to tell face to face. I said i had ptsd, that I hid a lot back in high school, that i’m in counseling, and that i was taking the meds. Anyway, I slipped the note on the kitchen counter when my dad and I left for the train station. I just got back and turned on my computer and there was an email from my dad. I was still totally afraid of what he’d say. But like I said, I’m so relived and happy right now I’m crying. I am sooo thankful for all of you who helped me find the strength to do this. My dad said he was actually relieved I was in counseling and that he actually had even tried to get me to go way back when (in high school – i thought he was against it though – he just said he knew i wasn’t ready). He even said that he went through depression after i went to school and he was alone, and he was even getting a bit sickish from it, and considered taking anti-depressants. basically, it was just the best response I could have hoped for. and that he feels bad he kept things from me and hopes we can open up communications better now. i can’t express how happy i am about that. it was one of my biggest fears in life. as far as the counseling thing, well i’m hoping that now if i tell the counselor about this, he’ll be more into trying again. i think a big thing holding me back and he knew this was that i felt like i was going against what my dad wanted and i couldn’t betray him like that. i don’t know. i will have to see how that goes. but now i don’t have to hide anything and that is such a big relief i can’t even put it into words. well, i hope everyone else is doing okay. i can’t really catchup on all the old posts i missed, but i will keep reading the new ones. thanks for everything les.

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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – {{{Les}}} hi again! I’m really happy that you have opened up the channels with your dad.  They often know more than we give them credit for! Perhaps now you will be able to take things a stage further in your recovery. Glad you’re crying tears of *joy*. Lisa )) * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find

related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping.  Smart is Beautiful Glad you’re back Les!  Glad you went too, for your sake and your father’s. I am soooo happy everything went as well as it did.  Our fathers really do surprise us sometimes, don’t they?  This should be a new road to travel down.  Please keep posting so we know how it all goes!  {{{{{Les}}}}  (I love those squishes that everybody is always giving.) Di

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{{{Les}}} hi again! I’m really happy that you have opened up the channels with your dad.  They often know more than we give them credit for! Perhaps now you will be able to take things a stage further in your recovery. Glad you’re crying tears of *joy*. Lisa )) * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping.  Smart is Beautiful

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Les, I’m glad you told your dad. And I bet he’s glad you opened up to him because it shows him you trust him. And it sounds like he loves you alot, and wants your love. I’ll bet he knows alot more about what’s going on with you than you realize. Parents sense things in their kids, even when the kids don’t talk about them. And parents often feel quilty that they have done something wrong when their kids are having problems. This is especially true with parents that are separated or divorced. Chip Hello everyone! I am back from my little vacation at home. Actually, I can’t stop crying right now, but it’s not bad tears, it’s happy tears. Let me tell you what happened. Everything went okay with going home. I had a really good time. But I totally chickened out on telling my dad stuff. Yet at the same time I knew I HAD to. for myself. So I finally, with a lot of support from a couple of friends, wrote a letter to my dad telling him even more than I could ever bear to tell face to face. I said i had ptsd, that I hid a lot back in high school, that i’m in counseling, and that i was taking the meds. Anyway, I slipped the note on the kitchen counter when my dad and I left for the train station. I just got back and turned on my computer and there was an email from my dad. I was still totally afraid of what he’d say. But like I said, I’m so relived and happy right now I’m crying. I am sooo thankful for all of you who helped me find the strength to do this. My dad said he was actually relieved I was in counseling and that he actually had even tried to get me to go way back when (in high school – i thought he was against it though – he just said he knew i wasn’t ready). He even said that he went through depression after i went to school and he was alone, and he was even getting a bit sickish from it, and considered taking anti-depressants. basically, it was just the best response I could have hoped for. and that he feels bad he kept things from me and hopes we can open up communications better now. i can’t express how happy i am about that. it was one of my biggest fears in life. as far as the counseling thing, well i’m hoping that now if i tell the counselor about this, he’ll be more into trying again. i think a big thing holding me back and he knew this was that i felt like i was going against what my dad wanted and i couldn’t betray him like that. i don’t know. i will have to see how that goes. but now i don’t have to hide anything and that is such a big relief i can’t even put it into words. well, i hope everyone else is doing okay. i can’t really catchup on all the old posts i missed, but i will keep reading the new ones. thanks for everything les.

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Hello everyone! I am back from my little vacation at home. Actually, I can’t stop crying right now, but it’s not bad tears, it’s happy tears. Let me tell you what happened. Everything went okay with going home. I had a really good time. But I totally chickened out on telling my dad stuff. Yet at the same time I knew I HAD to. for myself. So I finally, with a lot of support from a couple of friends, wrote a letter to my dad telling him even more than I could ever bear to tell face to face. I said i had ptsd, that I hid a lot back in high school, that i’m in counseling, and that i was taking the meds. Anyway, I slipped the note on the kitchen counter when my dad and I left for the train station. I just got back and turned on my computer and there was an email from my dad. I was still totally afraid of what he’d say. But like I said, I’m so relived and happy right now I’m crying. I am sooo thankful for all of you who helped me find the strength to do this. My dad said he was actually relieved I was in counseling and that he actually had even tried to get me to go way back when (in high school – i thought he was against it though – he just said he knew i wasn’t ready). He even said that he went through depression after i went to school and he was alone, and he was even getting a bit sickish from it, and considered taking anti-depressants. basically, it was just the best response I could have hoped for. and that he feels bad he kept things from me and hopes we can open up communications better now. i can’t express how happy i am about that. it was one of my biggest fears in life. as far as the counseling thing, well i’m hoping that now if i tell the counselor about this, he’ll be more into trying again. i think a big thing holding me back and he knew this was that i felt like i was going against what my dad wanted and i couldn’t betray him like that. i don’t know. i will have to see how that goes. but now i don’t have to hide anything and that is such a big relief i can’t even put it into words. well, i hope everyone else is doing okay. i can’t really catchup on all the old posts i missed, but i will keep reading the new ones. thanks for everything les.

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