Last updated Thursday, 21-Aug-2008 19:40:34 MST

By Sundeva

I've been getting an insight! (Probably just some of the fog clearing momentarily.)

I've made a total break from my family of origin, but I've been splashing around in a no woman's land - purgatory is it?  I have been trying to figure out who my real family is and it's not most people out there.  I'm seeing how people with PTSD respect each other's feelings and don't steal each other's energy.  Ok, so it's just online and that's not a real test of real time relationships, but it's giving us a concrete platform to stand on.  It's giving us the opportunity to dialogue and develop our relationship muscles.  It's giving me the strength to start a real time PTSD support group and the opportunity to put my theory into practice.   

PTSers are sensitive.  On the positive side it allows us the empathy to respect each other's feelings.  On the negative, we get our fears triggered too easily and it interferes with relationships.  But here on DailyStrength we have the opportunity to explore our feelings and get to practice healthy alternatives.  We are learning and we are growing. 

I have some close friends who are not PTSers who are working hard on their issues, who seem to lack a certain finesse that PTSers seem to have.  It's usually about energy stealing; a lack of equal give-and-take.  Most people are not sensitive enough about energy levels.  PTSers are.  That means we have the potential to be highly evolved.  As we help each other overcome our weaknesses, we can become highly conscious, enlightened beings.  That's my insight.