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30-10-2006, 02:29 PM
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hey hon.
Not talking much at the mo, but anger is allowed. . . . .
at least I hope it is. Or I am totally screwed. |
30-10-2006, 04:49 PM
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Ann, there is great difference between an accident, negligence, stupidity and putting oneself in the line of danger. You are a victim of negligence, and I actually think you have every right in the world to be angry with this girl, because she was negligent, she did break the law, all of which then involved you as a consequence to her stupidity, thus now affecting your life unneccesarily.
Sometimes anger is good for a while, as that alone helps us later down the road. Sure, being angry our entire life doesn't exactly help us in any way, which I guess is where we look at why where angry, opposed to just angry. I feel for you Ann, because that is every parents nightmare... being hit or killed by a stupid act of ignorance, neglect and selfishness, driving drunk. |
31-10-2006, 11:00 PM
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Hi Ann,
Welcome to the forum. I can't say that I'd be anything other than angry to start with, although I guess there comes a point when that energy is better invested in healing. Hope we can help. |
06-11-2006, 02:29 PM
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| |  Yet another...Welcome Sibemom!
Late to welcome you, but Welcome. Have read some very interesting posts of yours. THX. Glad you're with us, and imagine you're as excited about finding this forum today as you were when you first found it. It took me 1 month to be willing not to use every possible moment I had in this forum. Certainly, I remain to be forever interested as my PTSD has been with me much of my life and not going anywhere, working to the best of my ability confronting it while beginning to juggle and balance many other responsibilities and trauma therapy and my interest in this amazing forum. |
07-11-2006, 01:54 AM
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Hi Sibemom,
I have lost to many friends to drinking and driving, you have a right to be angry just don't let that anger eat you up. One of the problems with drunk drivers is at the time they do not think they are incapable of driving or the ramafictions of their actions. With the technolegy they have today you would think they could stop them driving. |
08-11-2006, 12:33 AM
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I'd be angry too, sidemom. I get angry just walking on the street if a careless motorist almost hits me, so I can't imagine how it must feel to be hit and hurt so badly, and all because of someone's bad judgement, too. You have every right to be very very angry about it.
Last edited by batgirl; 08-11-2006 at 12:34 AM.
Reason: corrected a misspelled word
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