Forgetting who you are

I don’t know your story Kate but I do know that feeling.

I don’t quite know how to put this but it is possible, after your life has imploded, to emerge as different person to the one you thought you knew and yet still to be newly and entirely yourself, perhaps even more so because some things have been stripped from you.

I know that sounds like the kind of platitude I hate. I suppose I want to say, don’t despair.

If what I’ve written is inappropriate for your troubles then I apologise.

💐

Thanks everyone. Kind and reassuring as ever. Sorry for those who have been through similar. Easy this isn't.

Or use this one!
Change the title maybe at some point/have it moved to gransnet cafe.

From your posts Kate I know we had similar homes and have lived with the results of the damage we deal with as a result of our formative years and the lack of nurturing we received. Those who had a loveing home cannot begin to imagine the choices we make because of how we feel about our worth. Chin up girl, you are not alone and remember you have far more courage than you realise and a lot more than those who’ve never known what a violent home is. Lucky them.

I dont know your story.

I also notice other posts on this thread.

Would it help to be on a "nice" thread, perhaps in Gransnet cafe.
Or join the Soop kitchen one.

Sometimes life is crushing - the person we know is sort-of squeezed of us...

Trust you will come back, eventually.
X

From all your posts Kate I am in awe how you have come through so much, and saddened that you had to.

You come across as such a lovely kind person, and I send you a virtual hug.

I’m still new here but your post has touched me to the core. If I could send you some strength I would.

Meant to add sorry about the awful stuff

I think I know who.you are Kate, GN's number 1 Beatles fan, at one time destined to marry George Harrison until elbowed out of the way by Patti Boyd.

I'm not posting these days, its too unpleasant.

Anybody struggling at all please message me for a chat. Very happy to listen or even meet up or chat on the phone.

None of this is easy, life isn't easy at all.

Dear Kate, if you can manage to get out of bed and get dressed you are doing a great job.

Presumably we are who we are now, after all the traumas, disasters and good things that have happened to us in the past. I wouldn’t like to still be as I was at the outset.

I'd echo all the positive thoughts about you Kate but I am sorry if you feel this way.

While my back story is nothing like as bad as yours, I feel that I am what those experiences made me. And, I hope I have learnt from them.

I don’t know you terribly well Kate1949, but I know enough from the few posts I have read to deduce you are a rather special person. Brave and kind . Smile cariad .

Yes I hear you 💕

Oh Kate - of all the stories here on GN, yours has touched me the most.
You are your own person. You’re having one of those days, I’m sure. A big 🤗 from me .

Well, all I can say is I’ve known you for a long time on this forum and all I can say is I know you as a really lovely person x