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[ It's ass at night and Elda Marker, made more awake by the fact she keeps finding herself waking up later and later especially on weekends when her son doesn't have school is wide awake. As such, she makes her own variation on one of those cerebral posts a friend of hers makes sometimes: ]

So what's something you've wanted to tell someone, but haven't? Or something you absolutely don't want to tell someone? Or have been fretting about? I'm no qualified therapist, but I am older than many of the people on this app, so maybe I can help. Even if I can't, I can hear it out.

I'll make mine public: The woman in my memories survived an attempt to exterminate her race, and I have no idea how to begin to handle that memory. I've tried to ignore it for months.

Mine's related to Retrospec stuff, but it doesn't have to be obviously.

[ On and OOC feel free to have your responses here assumed to be to her inbox for privacy if you want or have them be public for people. Specify if you want I'll roll with whatever ... or respond to her own admission if you want ]

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[insantafe]

Hey, there’s an idea - Retrospec therapists. If there are any on this network, they could make a killing helping some of us deal with whatever crazy memories they throw at us next. Though given all the variety of memories they've given everyone, we've probably all got something we'd rather not talk about.

I can’t say anyone would know how to deal with something like that, though. No matter what happened, that’s seriously messed up. But if she survived, that’s something, right?

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She survived, yes. Went on to live the rest of her life in a foreign country and made a family for herself there too, so it's a regular success story! In a way.

The only therapist I know on the network isn't fully licensed yet so I can't really recommend them to anyone in good faith. My own's still off the network, so I do need to dance a little.

[insantafe]

Maybe not a regular one, but that doesn’t make it any less important. A success story is still a success, and a pretty damn big one after something like she went through.

I know that feeling. I don’t see any therapists myself, but I have a few friends who dropped off the network - ones with the same memories, even. It’s hard, having to talk around it all the time.
But I suppose that’s one reason the rest of us are here, isn’t it? If nothing else, we might be able to help each other.

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Honestly, yes. It's clear from the memories I've gotten she sees her husband as having saved her life and having to experience her emotions, I can't say I disagree.

That's a shame about your friends, though. My son was on and is now off again so I worry about him a lot, even if that does mean he's apart from the worst of what these storms or unreality offer. It's a strange thing, isn't it? They're less hassled, but in being unaware, it's almost more of a worry.