I have a question...

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-19-2003
I have a question...
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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.


 



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Registered: 09-06-2005
Fri, 03-17-2006 - 6:43pm

I'll go first, Poppy.

 

 

~Diana~

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 5:16am

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



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Registered: 09-06-2005
Mon, 03-20-2006 - 8:06pm

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~