tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post7918747801072544902..comments2023-07-03T17:02:56.202+01:00Comments on Doris Mash: Anger, not fearDorishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14073379610501763461noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-81780771034930257472008-08-11T17:22:00.000+01:002008-08-11T17:22:00.000+01:00That sounds like a really healthy step forward! Wo...That sounds like a really healthy step forward! Wow. :-) <BR/><BR/>One thing, we all are at some level of dysfunction, although some may be more dysfunctional than others, but nobody is free of dysfunction! Nobody, except maybe Jesus, Buddha, Adi Da and the Dalai Lama. ;-)<BR/>(One reason Scientology is growing so exponentially, despite it's obvious wackiness, it lures people in with a promise Chandirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629463765622067086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-80708105377642134202008-08-01T16:30:00.000+01:002008-08-01T16:30:00.000+01:00By 'the same symptoms' - I mean same as you / the ...By 'the same symptoms' - I mean same as you / the book, of course. I may buy her a copy but she may not be ready to pull that monster back out from under the carpet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-68041897364352331902008-08-01T16:27:00.000+01:002008-08-01T16:27:00.000+01:00Speaking as the child of a close, loving home, may...Speaking as the child of a close, loving home, may I just say that we are all making it up as we go along. If childhood gave me certainty about anything, adolescence and first contact with the real world was a rude awakening that questioned all my preconceptions. I wouldn't swap childhoods, ever, but I remember wishing at the time that I could have been less naive and trusting.<BR/><BR/>Only thisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-47495108894154475262008-07-31T22:33:00.000+01:002008-07-31T22:33:00.000+01:00I don't come from a family with alcoholic parent/s...I don't come from a family with alcoholic parent/s, but I do come from a little bit of a strange family. You don't realise it as a kid, of course, it all seems normal to you. I think Anji is right, all families are dysfunctional to some degree because there is no such thing as a textbook 'perfect' family.<BR/><BR/>In a way we're all playing at being normal, but clearly it's much more of a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-20119193661932878482008-07-31T21:43:00.000+01:002008-07-31T21:43:00.000+01:00RiverPoetI love your user name and of course your ...<B>RiverPoet</B><BR/>I love your user name and of course your D name! Our lives do seem to have an uncanny similarity, that's for sure, and so surprising to me. I agree, what people survive is quite surprising. I wish you very well in your new discoveries about yourself and life. I find it sad that at our age we are having to spend all this time sorting oursleves out but I suppose better late Dorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073379610501763461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-59645833178967217642008-07-31T19:37:00.000+01:002008-07-31T19:37:00.000+01:00All French psychology students have to read a pape...All French psychology students have to read a paper in their first year. It’s called “On being sane in insane places” by David Rosenhan. ‘Sane ‘ people faked mental illness and managed to fool everyone on the staff in mental hospitals except for the other patients. Dom gave it to me to read last year and it helped me to see that our family were regarded as dysfunctional because there was a Anjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562210585479814093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-65204634682363249022008-07-31T14:15:00.000+01:002008-07-31T14:15:00.000+01:00Very well said! I've been in therapy and/or recove...Very well said! I've been in therapy and/or recovery for the last couple of years trying to sort all of this out for myself. It's amazing to me how resilient we humans are that we can bounce back again and again from things we think should have killed us. <BR/><BR/>You and I have such a similar background. It's uncanny, really. <BR/><BR/>Peace - D<BR/>(the other Doris)RiverPoethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01846730934649303857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-35132392323161300652008-07-31T13:29:00.000+01:002008-07-31T13:29:00.000+01:00AnjiHi there :-) Itis one thing coming from a dysf...<B>Anji</B><BR/>Hi there :-) Itis one thing coming from a dysfunctional family but must be quite painful, if you are aware like I think you are, to be told that you have your own dysfunctional family! It is an easy term to banter around and sure enuogh we must all fall into that category at some time or other.<BR/><BR/>Thank you for sharing more about your own life .... blogging is quite amazing Dorishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14073379610501763461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7053427813454658272.post-49411276326404228102008-07-31T13:12:00.000+01:002008-07-31T13:12:00.000+01:00There is so much written there that speaks to me. ...There is so much written there that speaks to me. My mum is an alcoholic, but it started when I was grown up and far away. It hurts me a lot to think of the person I thought of as strong all my life has disintergrated so much.(I only phone her in the mornings because she is too slirred in the afternoons and eveings) We lived on a farm in the middle of nowhere, my poor mum had been a townie Anjihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02562210585479814093noreply@blogger.com