tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942916.post115546886859244429..comments2023-09-30T12:51:30.281+02:00Comments on Roy Blumenthal is 'The Coffee-Shop Schmuck': 2006-08-13 How many of these characteristics of 'Adult Children of Alcoholics' do you have?Roy Blumenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01194440829358126889noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942916.post-55507213019420528342011-01-26T06:31:56.245+02:002011-01-26T06:31:56.245+02:00Thanks Terri/Gillian. Really cool of you to leave ...Thanks Terri/Gillian. Really cool of you to leave your comment on this post. It's a tough thing to do in public. And yet, paradoxically, it's one of the things needed for healing... getting the silence lifted.<br /><br />I want to congratulate you for making the move away from your family. As difficult as it might be in the right now, in time the panic will ease, and clarity and perspective will come. You're doing something powerfully 'for you'. <br /><br />All the very best to you. Thank you for letting me know your story. And thank you for your kindness about the video.Roy Blumenthalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01194440829358126889noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5942916.post-50190045182840533552011-01-26T03:41:50.671+02:002011-01-26T03:41:50.671+02:00Dear Roy,
I am 57 now and first ran into this...Dear Roy,<br /><br /> I am 57 now and first ran into this list at 36 and was shocked - but relieved to relate to something that fit me. Getting better comes in layers for me. For a while I do pretty good; then a trigger and I'm off and running to figure out another piece to where I find myself today, saying to myself that the sexual abuse at the hands of my parents when I was a young is really called incest; wow, a word I always reserved for "certain types of families"; isn't it odd that it took me this long to be able to call what happened to my what is really is? Not sexual abuse but incest. I disengaged from my family of origin two days ago. I'm somewhere between dissociating and panic, but I found an article "Disengagin from your family of origin" that is so on point with me and my stuff that I do believe everything will really be okay. Thank you for sharing your story via the video. I found it to be powerful and touching and real. I loved the way you told your story - no judgment, just the facts. Thanks again.terri a/k/a gillianhttp://www.pippilongstockingrevisited.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com