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just wanted to say that i'm really liking coming online & finding that people have been replying to the threads in this forum. thanks

Hmmm, you're welcome? ^^

is a good thing personally i rather like replies cuz then i know someone read... & with this forum at times it was taking days for a reply to be given. it's not seeming to take nearly that long anymore & i think that's a good thing

I know what you mean - with the whole of this board I think its important that people get replies and quickly. Because the situation tends to not really be able to wait.

Yea, y ou're right. I try to respond if I have anything to say that might even remotely help. usually, I dont, cause I am not good with that kind of stuff, or people already said what I would have. But its good that people have this place to come to period, I think. Its a great support type place

Sometimes I even reply to myself.
It is funny, but it can be really helpful to go back and read over what I wrote before once I have a bit more distance from it.
I also really appreciate the replies I get here...they make a big difference for me.

NobodyToYou wrote:Sometimes I even reply to myself.
It is funny, but it can be really helpful to go back and read over what I wrote before once I have a bit more distance from it.
I also really appreciate the replies I get here...they make a big difference for me.

Wow, I never thought about that, answering yourself.

I know it is a bit weird, but really, there are times when I realize so much more later...
The last time I answered myself, I realized that in my "Before" I had left out a LOT of things that were probably important. They didn't seem that important at the time, or maybe I was avoiding thinking about them. But afterwards, I could see that they really did matter...It amazes me how much I can shut things out (or in) when I don't want to deal with them.
I learn a lot about myself by rereading my posts...I guess you all have learned that I am a bit strange!

They didn't seem that important at the time, or maybe I was avoiding thinking about them. ...It amazes me how much I can shut things out (or in) when I don't want to deal with them.
I learn a lot about myself by rereading my posts...

*nods* i do that with my posts as well. it's been one of the helpful things about bus for me. it used to take me days... then once my mood shifted i could go through & rethink & see a different view to my own post. now often i can as i'm reading while typing... often it's more that i'm avoiding or not believing the other perspectives/logic/etc i can find.

anyhow. if that makes sense. i don't find rereading & even posting back to yourself as being strange... i think it's really a useful thing.
not that other peoples replies are less helpful then or anything.
*feels like she's babbling a bit *

NobodyToYou wrote:I know it is a bit weird, but really, there are times when I realize so much more later...
The last time I answered myself, I realized that in my "Before" I had left out a LOT of things that were probably important. They didn't seem that important at the time, or maybe I was avoiding thinking about them. But afterwards, I could see that they really did matter...It amazes me how much I can shut things out (or in) when I don't want to deal with them.
I learn a lot about myself by rereading my posts...I guess you all have learned that I am a bit strange!

I dont think it is strange or weird at all. I think that it makes tons of sense. I just had never thought about it before. I usually go back and reread my journals. That helps me, I just never thought abou doing it here on bus