Hope - I agree about the couselling - it wouldn't have done me any good at the beginning. In fact I had some, and it was useless. In part it was too early, and in part she wasn't the right one for me. I didn't have many sessions. But the therapist I started seeing [about 16 months post-bomb] has helped a lot. Partly he made me understnd more about the MLC rom a pschotherapeutic point of view, and he provided a 'safe' place to talk about my pain, and to see how it related to my own past. So that I could understand my reactions better.
I liked your post to Peaceful spirit too. We cannot fix them. I never snooped. Wanted to but realised that what I would find out would only cause me pain.
I think one of the hardest parts of dealing with the MLCer is their unreachability. We cannot touch them either physically or emotionally as we used to. They are immune to reason . . . .And the sooner we learn that, the better we can get on.
