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Being used, controlled, beat and left with nothing will forever be a part of any victims life and it's not easily forgotten nor dealt with.
9 years later and I still have difficult days because of my involvement with a monster. There are days I want to do bad things to everyone that ever did anything to me, but I deal with it and reach out for positive energy so I can get through that day. Maybe this is Kats way of dealing with it while trying to move forward from it.
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Originally Posted by Gemma34
Wow,
Gamma you need to understand that you don't need to deal with it. It is not a part of your life forever.
Disagree? Stop and think about it.
The answer is to give it up. Forget it! That part of your life is over!
Been there, done that, with a lot of my friends from their experience in Nam. I was lucky to get some advice from older guys who had been there, done that, before me. The simple statement that THE WAR IS OVER solved a lot of problems. Don't keep playing it over and over and over in your mind. One of my buddies came back at me with NO THE WAR IS NOT OVER. He suffered for many years until he could let it go.
YOU CAN GIVE IT UP. GIVE UP THE PAIN, DON'T RELIVE IT.
Give it up, means you can start a new life and move on. Keeping the pain is a big cause of mental illness and suffering.
Philosophers, religions, and mental health providers all really say the same thing: from Zoroaster to Buddha to Jesus Christ to Sigmund Freud to Charles Menninger and Karl Menninger in his book "Man Against Himself".
Quit hurting yourself. In the "Sermon on the Mount" Jesus used the term "born again" to get the point across that all of us can give up the pain that the past has brought us.
Let us just change the wording that Jesus used; isn't he just saying:
YOUR WAR IS OVER.
Let go of it.
JR