gateway to hell: revisited

gateway to hell: revisited

theo

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guys,
don't know if i am seeking advice or just sounding off. please, for those who are more sesitive right now disregard this post, it will probably be triggering.

i want to thank leosha, mikey, and gary for their words of comfort. it meant a great deal to hear from others. i know this kind of post cannot elicit many words of wisdom, so it is probably just a cry in the dark hoping for some one to say they heard what was not heard 32 years ago...the screams of a child.

i have tried to get back in touch with little theo tonight just before i sat down to write this. i feel as though the answer is right there on the tip of my tounge but it refuses to be spoken. there was the perp, a knife, and the child i was of 4 yrs old. i had to close my eyes then because i was in danger of death for whatever was going on. i felt as though i was almost there with the answer to what happened but it slipped away again. i have dissociated six times in the past two weeks, four of those while i was awake. i had to purposely recall what a brother here said about expecting a child to think like an adult. i kept telling myself to think like a four year old. it worked up to a point, but then it slipped away. this has had me in the grips of total apathy ever since the trigger of the knife was pulled two weeks ago.

i don't know what to do anymore!!! i tried so hard to be there for little theo when the subject of the knife came up but i have not been able to get anything done. i woke up twice in the middle of a dissociative episode when lady theo came to bed in the last two weeks feeling terror. how do four year olds think? how can i reach little theo and let him know he really is safe? this is something really bad. it is so bad that i can't even break through the walls i put up myself to get to the truth. how does a four year old think and feel????????
 
Theo,

You are not the only one that struggles with how does a 4 year old think.

As far as trying to remember just what happened I wil pass on an experience I had in July. I had been struggling with some memories of what happened with a woman perp. I went out for breakfast in a restaurant and ordered my meal. The waitress just walked away and all of a sudden I saw it all. Have no idea just what triggered it then, other than i didn't care for the waitress and she may have reminded me of the perp. Point is it may come at a very unexpected time. Needless to say my mind wasn't on my breakfast as I ate and my mind was digesting the memories all day.

Be patient. The mind may know when u are ready to deal with it too and waiting for the right moment.

Hang in there, buddy.
Gary
 
Theo,

Gary is so right when he says
The mind may know when u are ready to deal with it too and waiting for the right moment
The therapist I have worked with for two years told me in the beginning (when I was still dealing only with emotional incest) and has reminded me time and time again that I would be able to deal with issues only when my psyche would be ready. I can attest to the truth of her words. The emotional agony I go through until my psyche is ready comes from what was done to me. (In my personal spirituality, the perpetrator will have to answer for that agony and those acts to his Creator. I'm an optimist some of the time.) I second: Hang in there, buddy.

Tom
 
Theo, Gary and Tom,

With me, it's remembering "everything" and having to compensate for all of the rushing in at me. My therapist told me that I probalbly suffered from Attention Deficit all of my school years and beyond.
Some of my associates think that I'm still four. My good friends tell me that I'm "in touch" with my "inner child."
Frankly, carrying this shit around so readily availabvel has been overewhelming for me at times. Allergic reaction to tranquilizers is just one of the loads.
I do appreciate your wanting to get in touch and letting that four year old that he is safe now. That he can come out and be OK in your presence. That you will welcome him into your warm, safe arms for the love he never got, the care that he never felt was his. All he knew was the fear, terror and the heart stopping feeling of abandonment. When you see him, let him run to you, run right into your arms. Hold him tight and tell him how precious he is to you and how much you've missed him. Tell him that you'll never let him go or never let anything ever happen to him again that will frighten him. Tell him that he is loved more than he ever thought possible. Tell him that you'll always, always be there for him. That he has your arms whenever he needs them. That you'll always greet him as the most loved member of your family............

Love,

David
 
gary, tom, & david,
i want to thank each of you for the strong embrace of friendship and affirmation. i will not elaborate on the last two weeks for i know that each of you understand it already. i know in my mind that it is not my timetable that will decide when i learn what i need to know, but this apathy of late is doing too much damage to my precariously balanced life right now. at least i do have a life now as opposed to one year ago in that deadend job, and i am grateful, but i feel as though i am fighting for survival here all over again. david, you are going to have make room for me on that "shit bench", as you eloquently phrased it :) . i hate it when we work so hard only to be screwed over again by the hell inflicted on us from so long ago. tom, in my own spiritual journey i struggle with the desire for justice and the desire for vengance. it is a fine line it seems to me, and i frequently don't know where it is. gary, obviously i have no idea when or even if the trigger will occur to the full knowledge, but when it does happen i have little doubt it will be the least oppurtune time it can be, say right in the middle of the presentation of my independent research project i am already behind on. again, i thank each of you for reaching out to me and little theo. david, your words in that respect affected me deeply and i will do exactly that. i am the nurturer and caretaker little theo never had. i only hope i have the strength to overcome the terror that invades my soul so often of late so that i will be able to love that little boy that was so hurt by those who should have loved and protected him. take care.
 
My therapist periodically reminds me not to force or be impatient with the recovery of memories. She says she does not want me to re-traumatize.

It may be that stress sometimes causes memories to come back. Maybe taking steps to minimize the stress of your presentation will help avoid a dissasociate episode in the middle of it.

Brett
 
Theo,

I wish I know what to say to help you more. I disocciate, but it is total, of 'other' person, and I am not aware of it, just aware later that I lose myself again. I know one 'other' is child, but am not 'in contact' with him, I do not know if he is really like my 'inner child' or just other part of me.

What I do think, though, is that it has taken long time, years, that the small part of you has hidden away and retreated of the fear. So it will take a while probably to help him feel safer again, and know it is okay to be present, that he is safe and protected now. Please try to keep patient at yourself, and at him, it will happen. Look how long it take for you, grown you, to trust another. It will take that long, or longer, for the small you to trust to be safe. It does not happen right away.

Keep patient and keep safe. I wish you well.

leosha
 
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