What I UZed2B and where I'm going?

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Uzed2B

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Just started collecting soc. sec., not quite the oldest you can do that, but certainly NOT the youngest either. I'm female, married and live in New England. Was born in L.A. Have also lived in the south...

I call myself a "recovering hoarder." Did you know most hoarders have a co-diagnosis? I do, it's PTSD, which I acquired from abuse, starting at 3. Having spent almost my entire life fighting the stupid PTSD (was 45 before I got diagnosed) After 10 years of dealing with the PTSD, I started working on the associated hoarding and am nearly done.

What's next? I have no idea -- something that isn't related to having a F'd up childhood would be very, very nice! I"m not ashamed of having been a victim, just pissed that what was done to me took so much of my life to undo.
 

Welcome,,I'm soon to be 81,, trying to down size our home.

I started collecting bird plates, & continue to collect glass paper weights.
My mother has some that were passed onto me.

After seeing how my mother in law was collecting 'collector' dolls,,till they were over running her living room.
Decided I better stop collecting plates & paper weights.

Somehow that changed to collecting snowmen. :eek:
Mostly ceramic ones ,, few stuffed ones.
 
I am SO sorry that you have had a traumatic childhood but it might help if you wrote it all down Uzed2B.

I too was ill-treated by so called Sisters-of Mercy when I was young. Then I went through a bloody war that involved me being machine gunned in the hop-fields and on the evacuee train apart from being bombed out twice during the London Blitz with neighbour's and friends being slaughtered each day with the bombs.

Writing it all down helped me come to terms with all and I finally came to terms with life when I reached my 70s. A book of the first 20 years of my life was published and all proceeds after printing costs taken out has gone to my local Children's Hospice. I am more than pleased to say it made a four figure sum for them.

I will be 93 this year and although I am now disabled through Brittle Bone disease I still try to make the most of life.
I used to collect Swarovski Crystal and carvings of animals from worldwide but I started to part with them when I got to 90 years of age when passing them on to family and friends as keepsakes, BUT only if they wanted them and they pick what they want.
 
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You are not alone here.. there's a few of us on this board who are victims of childhood abuse.. for me who lived through serious child abuse.. I call myself a survivor.. not a victim.. and we've all had to deal with our lives as adults in the only way we knew how, by our wits, because no-one taught us.... so kudos to you for recognising that you needed to change a few things to be happy in yourself.. I hope you manage to get everything done you want to do..

It's a pleasure to have you join us here...

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