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<blockquote data-quote="scent of cedar" data-source="post: 604167" data-attributes="member: 1721"><p>Thank you, Skotti. If I may ask without giving offense...do you know whether the pain you feel has to do with being misunderstood by others, or does it have to do with frustration at not understanding what is happening inside yourself?</p><p></p><p>I think one of difficult child's strongest fears is losing touch with reality and not knowing what that means. While I don't know for sure, it seems to me that she fears these episodes as much because they are abnormal as she does because of what she actually sees or hears. For instance, she dreampt of a man bringing pancakes the other day. She was upset, when she woke up, that the people she was with had eaten all the pancakes. Turns out, of course, that there had never been any pancakes.</p><p></p><p>So, they made pancakes for dinner, and left some out for the man.</p><p></p><p>When she told me about the dream, I said I thought that was her grandfather. My father. He loved pancakes, and he loved difficult child.</p><p></p><p>No more fear of that particular imagery.</p><p></p><p>I know there have been more frightening things, things that difficult child doesn't tell me about. I wonder whether the fear component comes from that uneasy feeling "this isn't normal", and whether that fear feeling changes the emotional tone of whatever it is she is seeing/hearing.</p><p></p><p>I wish it didn't have to be so scary, for her.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="scent of cedar, post: 604167, member: 1721"] Thank you, Skotti. If I may ask without giving offense...do you know whether the pain you feel has to do with being misunderstood by others, or does it have to do with frustration at not understanding what is happening inside yourself? I think one of difficult child's strongest fears is losing touch with reality and not knowing what that means. While I don't know for sure, it seems to me that she fears these episodes as much because they are abnormal as she does because of what she actually sees or hears. For instance, she dreampt of a man bringing pancakes the other day. She was upset, when she woke up, that the people she was with had eaten all the pancakes. Turns out, of course, that there had never been any pancakes. So, they made pancakes for dinner, and left some out for the man. When she told me about the dream, I said I thought that was her grandfather. My father. He loved pancakes, and he loved difficult child. No more fear of that particular imagery. I know there have been more frightening things, things that difficult child doesn't tell me about. I wonder whether the fear component comes from that uneasy feeling "this isn't normal", and whether that fear feeling changes the emotional tone of whatever it is she is seeing/hearing. I wish it didn't have to be so scary, for her. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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