Reply #50

... and please do not think that I would dream of suggesting that you abandon anything that genuinely helps you. I am more fortunate than many of the depressives I have met. I've known some people who literally couldn't move from their chairs they were so down and turned inside. My recent experiences would be of no use to them at all.

There are few people who can truly understand the deep changes that can be wrought in your "basement" by being kept perpetually off-balance emotionally as a child. I can only guess at your experiences and the effect on you, if your childhood was anything like mine I could imagine that you will at times feel astonishingly isolated in the world, as if wandering through a dream where everyone understands the "rules" intuitively except you, who had to learn them. We learn to stay off-balance, I think.

Take care and here's hoping that 2013 is good to you.