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<blockquote data-quote="witzend" data-source="post: 458930" data-attributes="member: 99"><p>Have you started with the new therapist yet?</p><p></p><p>As to waiting to be "normal" again, I was watching a true crime type program the other day and they were talking with a young 30-something woman who when she was in college was shot - along with her date - by a guy who "wanted to know what it would feel like to kill someone." Her date died, and she was shot multiple times. The gunman thought she was dead but she pulled through after spending months in the hospital. All these years later she still has no feeling in her right side, etc.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, she spent a lot of time anticipating that something bad would happen. It crippled her life. She said that she told her mom "when I be that same girl I was before I was shot?" Eventually her mother told her that she would<em> never</em> be that girl again, she would be the person that she is and will become, and she is wonderful as the person that she is. She took it to heart and started to live again. She really seemed like she was living a good life and happy.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what it is that "normal" is. I know that we all move forward in life and we never are what we were. You need to find a way to be content with the Steely that you are. You'll never be the person that you were. None of us are the person we were. We all have life experiences that change us every day. Some are big, some aren't. And then we make the best we can of life. I think that whatever it is that you thought your were before, you have to give that up and just start being the best "you" that you can. Fretting isn't going to undo what's been done.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witzend, post: 458930, member: 99"] Have you started with the new therapist yet? As to waiting to be "normal" again, I was watching a true crime type program the other day and they were talking with a young 30-something woman who when she was in college was shot - along with her date - by a guy who "wanted to know what it would feel like to kill someone." Her date died, and she was shot multiple times. The gunman thought she was dead but she pulled through after spending months in the hospital. All these years later she still has no feeling in her right side, etc. Anyway, she spent a lot of time anticipating that something bad would happen. It crippled her life. She said that she told her mom "when I be that same girl I was before I was shot?" Eventually her mother told her that she would[I] never[/I] be that girl again, she would be the person that she is and will become, and she is wonderful as the person that she is. She took it to heart and started to live again. She really seemed like she was living a good life and happy. I don't know what it is that "normal" is. I know that we all move forward in life and we never are what we were. You need to find a way to be content with the Steely that you are. You'll never be the person that you were. None of us are the person we were. We all have life experiences that change us every day. Some are big, some aren't. And then we make the best we can of life. I think that whatever it is that you thought your were before, you have to give that up and just start being the best "you" that you can. Fretting isn't going to undo what's been done. [/QUOTE]
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