Remembering your childhood disappointments

[Babs2u]

That's precisely what I believe... I believe that many of hide them not only from other people, but from ourselves, because we're afraid maybe of reliving the trauma, and or... being told to suck it up, that we're adults, that we shouldn't talk about these things... .but to me much of the trauma suffered as children were a first for us, and we were never allowed to talk about it... .. and so affected us often like no other trauma that came afterwards as adults..

I guess that is why so many people are in therapy. I have tried it on a couple of occasions to address specific problems buy usually just deal with it.

 

[smiley]

nothing wrong with good therapy - just gotta make sure ya pick a good therapists - there's some shonkees out there!! [and they'll sure like takin ya money]

 

[Dave03]

I was probably 7 or so, and I had written a very specific toy on my Christmas list.

Christmas morning, my 6 year old brother got that exact gift.

I realize now, that it was a simple mix up in the gift tags, but at the time, I was crushed. Never said a word.

Funny thing is, I don't even remember what the gift was. But I still remember that. Weird.