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The Suicide Grief Support Forum Board is here to provide information and support to anyone whose life has been touched by suicide. This board is an outreach project of the Parents of Suicides (POS) and Friends & Families of Suicides (FFOS) Internet Communities. The Board began on October 2, 2002.
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#1
07-08-2010, 01:06 AM
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Do you sense it in other people?
This is a bit off topic but I've noticed over the last 24 years since my life blew up that I can always tell when I meet a person that has been through a major traumatic event in their life. It's nothing tangible that I can pin point but I always recognize 'the facade' when I see it. Has anyone else had that experience?
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#2
07-08-2010, 06:37 AM
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No...
But, I'm working on it. Check out http://wellnessrevolutionsummit.com/replay.html - Dr. Daniel Amen replay. Expires 070810 NOON dst.
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#3
07-10-2010, 05:41 PM
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When I was growing up, I lived for the first 11 yrs with my Dad who suffers from Bi-Polar.He was between moods 24 hours a day, and would go from loving and laughing one minute to moody, violent and yelling the next.I learnt very quickly to "read" people.I knew what to/not to say, and if he was going to snap.It was a survival thing.Ever since then, I do it automatically when I meet people.When I met Jamie he said that I was the most perceptive person he had ever met.I guess it's true what you say, if you have been through a trauma etc, you identify with that in others and it is easy to pick, where as before you had experienced it, you may not have noticed.
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#4
07-11-2010, 12:29 PM
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Since my Dad's suicide, I have become more aware of other people & feel myself wanting to reach out & help people who look a little sad or seem off balance. This has definitely been a learning curve for me. I feel wiser & stronger - two positive things that have come out of this awful tragedy. I do feel more in tune with other people's emotions. A friend of mine lost her father recently through illness & when she came back to work & sat next to me in a meeting, I could feel her grief like a magnet & could recognise the look in her eye. I don't think anyone else in the room noticed. Emma
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#5
07-12-2010, 05:10 AM
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I think that's definitely true and very wise.
This has to be a good thing, so we can reach out to other people in pain and try to turn the horribleness into something good.
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#6
07-28-2010, 06:51 PM
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Definitely. And they are the only ones who I can talk to & feel like they get it.
I don't blame those who aren't like us...after all, I was like them before January 20th. It's just different now. And always will be.
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#7
07-28-2010, 07:53 PM
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I think we become more intuitive and sensitive. Yes.
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I miss you babe! More n more.
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