Hi Cookie42.

      As children we just soak up this whole , new world. Most of this is one way, and we're naturally self absorbed little folks, internalising it all. Stuff happens and, we get the fallout, good or bad. We don't have a lot of perspective or shades of grey, either, so we can really awfulize it. The Thing in the cupboard.  I think we tend to grab onto emotions naively. Guilt-Fear- get overused.  As the years have passed, i am realising the there is a WIDE variety of people out there. Some don't even look or act 'out there'.

      The stuff that happened to me as a kid needs perspective. Anger isn't that perspective. Anger is a lack of perspective. Fear needs to be shut down and guilt needs to be de-selected. I feel for my little self. Then I hold on to me, resurface, slowly, in stages before I continue my life. The way I need to.