Maybe you even need to hear this.
Who knows?
Only you do.
I wanted to take some time to say a BIG THANK YOU to ALL!
Your support, encouragement, compassion, and kindness is AMAZING! I have been moved to tears more than once by your insight and genuine goodness. I wanted to express my sincere gratitude to all of YOU. I wanted say to you that YOU have made a difference. You have made a difference in my life in just the past 48 hours.
Your community is remarkable!
I have opened up to you.
No, let me re-phrase that. . . . YOU have opened me up. I am shocked at how your community has drawn me outside of myself. Because of the Steemit platform, you were there to listen. I have said things to Steemitt, to you, that I had not admitted to myself or dealt with for years.
Things that were buried somewhere deep inside.
Invisible thoughts that I never knew were there.
I wasn't aware that I'd managed to HIDE from myself. I couldn't say them out loud (let alone acknowledge them to myself). In 2010 (2 days before my daughters birthday) I had a meltdown. I ended up in the hospital for 1 1/2 days.
The intake nurse said that I was there because I didn't have a support system. I don't know if that was really why I ended up there. I also heard them speak of trauma and PTSD. (By the way, I refused all of their medication b/c I was angry w/ Big Pharma, still am). What I do know is that the folks within the Steemit community did more for me in 48 hrs than the 1 1/2 day stay at the hospital and the 4 visits to the therapist.
Now I 'do appreciate' the hospital and the therapist. Maybe I (the student) wasn't ready to work on healing or facing whatever. But I do know that all of YOU, within the Steemit community are providing a valuable service. Prior to 48 hrs ago, I didn't think that I had anything to say, let alone anything that could be important to others.
I never thought that anyone cared about what I had to say, let alone wanted to hear more of it!
To my dismay, the Steemit community says that they to hear more!
I am now 'a one day at a time' person.
For today "I'm Good." Thank You.
