Writing As A Form Of Therapy

Thanks for your kind words @Faith-and-Hope.

Thank you for your kind words @Faith-and-Hope. Telling my story in form of a fairytale was easier for me to start of with. Once I had done that I was able to put my mind to actual happenings. For one the fairytale does not use names and is very reduced to the main thread without going into detail, e.g. the family lived in a land ruled by a wicked witch instead of "name" experienced atrocity 1, 2, 3 with all the gory details in "name of country".

Now that I've made up a timetable with a definite timeslot for all my routine activities (they're getting to be more and more 😉 , I feel the editing is a matter of business now, not so much an emotional one.

We'll see what happens.

You're not detracting in any way, shape, or form. Using the form of the fairytale is exactly the same thing as using puppets for children. Btw, I gave a number of puppets to the little son of a friend of mine who I suspected to be abused. Of course, he had been told by the abuser that it was their very own secret. The conversation of the puppets clarified matters.

I wrote the fairytale in fits and starts. The first ended with the central character wishing to suicide after years of abuse. Then friends came into the story and so it continued to the point where the central character decides to forego suicide and live.

I'm really excited with this development.

Dear @Ffm48

How are you ? I've seen you around but my life is about mess and getting things done and just saying hello to the familiar quickly sometimes, Apologies, I just loved reading this...

My name is PeppiPatty I'm 49 years old married lady who lives with our doggie and my youngest son is always banging at the door to tell me of his latest dramas.......

My second husband is hugely more intelligent than me: It's cool for me to write that because we ....both extend each others lives very positively in different ways.

I've been wanting to write this novel for years and years. At last, I'm in a place where I can see my Psychotherapist and see her about writing it. I've been writing it for about 6 months.....the first page is done and dusted. I have pages and pages of notes and research.....It is very exciting.

So, I pay 100 per session to see her and its hugely too much money but I know her really really well, she has seen me for my own struggles for many years.........She has often lent me books throughout the years of other women struggling times of MI....often I have thought....oh I can see why this is a best seller........

We argue and my husband of course always wants to come. He doesnt say anything when at home with me and then in her office, all these words come out which are awesome...some of them I use.

I really love reading about what you are writing.

When I was 16, homeless and getting myself ripped to shreds mentally by my Mum, I just gotten out of hospital from having a major head injury and being in a coma for over 6 weeks. I remember going to bed one night and waking up and thinking not suicide but:

I remember thinking : I will get better. I will study and get better.

I thought, that you maybe would maybe see how I was in intense stress.....I did some crazy things though

PP

I've had a major head injury....