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I have a question...
| Thu, 03-16-2006 - 11:02am |
Imagine that I'm a very good friend you've not told about the ED and who hasn't seen you in a few years because... hmm... because I was away somewhere. Now I've come back, we've seen each other a few times, and I sense that something's changed in you. I can't really pinpoint it but I know that something isn't quite right.
I'm a good friend and to my knowledge I've not done anything to betray our friendship or your trust in me. From what you know of me, I really do care about you, and I am not judgemental.
What would you like me to do?
I know that as a friend there are several things that I can do, but I'd like to know your opinions.




I'll go first, Poppy.
~Diana~
Thank you so much for sharing honestly, Diana. You can't know how much I appreciate this.
I don't think your reply was harsh. I will confess that I felt sadness reading it. Having had friends who were anchors for me during times when the symptoms of PTSD that I have surface and fight to take over my life, I wish that everyone had friends and support like this.
That said, having had had the bitter realization that some people whom I thought were good friends turn out to be not only fair-weathered ones but also incapable of any desire to try understand what had happened to me and what I was living through at that time, I also understand. I wasn't the freak at the circus side show. For them, I was the leper.
Diana, I don't look at you as a freak. In the very little time that I've met you, you are someone whom I respect a lot. There's something about you that is very special (I'm sure that there are a lot of things about you that are very special, but
Hi Poppy,
I was showing you what I would be like at my worst --
I was speaking more on the terms of when I was most into ed, and if you were whomever might have been from my past, not as you, meaning you Poppy.
I am well into my recovery, but a blast from the past came when I was working on my smoking quit, and slipped with ed.
~Diana~