Guest guest Posted April 30, 1998 Report Share Posted April 30, 1998 Yesterday Peggy wrote: <snip> >I hope we will be able to be of some help to each other. I've found the >pain lists on which I've participated before can often become very derisive >as well as extremely depressing - to me, anyway. I don't know if this is >something indigenous to the make-up of the list, or the nature of all >lists. I tend to need more " Up-lifting " encouragement; there is not a >moment I do not have pain. It's been so long since I was pain-free I don't >even remember what that was like anymore. I'm so sorry I didn't realize it >was a time to have been savored so I could have carried the memory on >through life to remind me how life should be; not what life is. > >Peggy M. <snip> There is a good point here: If we all focus on what's wrong, we can be weighing ourselves down with negativity & depressing realities (that happens to me too when I have to run my 'case history " to a new doc, or as an introduction in a group). But then if we get into pleasantries and chatty conversation, we can go off-topic, and then we might not be depressing ourselve enough, or risk being singled out for wasting the list's time! Is there anything we can do about this? should we have several lists, including one grim one & another chaty one so we can always be on-topic? How depressing are we supposed to be? Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 10, 1998 Report Share Posted May 10, 1998 Hello everyone, I just wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for making this list possible. In a few short weeks a foundation for communication has been built that I hope will remain & grow as a source of constructive help for us all. I am particularly pleased by the broad and international nature of our membership, and now feel like I am keeping in touch with old friends. When the term 'global village' was used about 20 years ago by Marshall Macluan, a man who forsaw all of this, I didn't quite get it. Now we really have one. During the early years of seeking treatment, I had the incredible good fortune to become a member of a peer therapy group in one of the pioneer pain treatment centers. That group became the center of my life for a long time. Just walking into the room, even if everyone was silent, there was understanding. Not too many groups like that can be found even now. My insurance balked on letting me continue participating, and it was a profound loss of something I desperately needed. I hope groups like ours can meet this need for us and many others, and believe they will. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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