I find the science of the brain very interesting. I actually do think many illnesses are connected but science hasn’t figured out how the brain works enough to understand everything.

Since I also have Fibromyalgia which has meant constant pain, I absolutely think there could be something going on making me feel pain more intensely or when I shouldn’t.

I didn’t know you had peripheral neuropathy! I’ve heard the term but I’m not familiar with the specifics. I’ll go look it up but I’m glad you’ve found something that helps.

I just started the Neuron tin today so we’ll see how it goes.

Feel free to share anymore thoughts you have. Thanks Freasha!

You sure do have your share of diagnoses, don’t you? Or more truly, you are hogging them all. But I know this isn’t funny. I just wonder if there is a common thread that is tying all these together. All happening in the brain, you know.

I do hope the Neurontin helps. Luckily, they now have the generic version so it is not very expensive.

Thanks. It is a pain in butt…well face lol.

Thank you. It can be hard to challenge what we are taught by our parents or other adults when we’re still trying to figure out who we are. ((hugs))

You ask interesting questions. I definitely felt like my mother was blaming me for whatever may or may not have actually been happening. Her tone in of itself was harsh like I was doing it on purpose. She had told me I was like a whore even as a child so this wouldn’t have been a new concept.

As for my response and what drove it? I honestly don’t know. The whole situation was so creepy, I’m not sure how I felt at the time. I wasn’t aware of my uncle on a conscious level at this time in my life so I don’t know that this instance with the man and my mother would have connected with that.

Like I said, interesting questions. It’s one of the reasons that I appreciate all of you who read this blog. The questions and comments and points of view are really helpful.

Being a woman and trying to discover our identity is hard enough without having our mothers and male figures along the way screw us up. My suggestion…Look at each interaction and recognize how you felt — what was right and what wasn’t. Situations are not your fault. You are perfect and did not bring out the worst in others. That is them – not you and not your mother’s perception.

{{ HUGS }} Fern

As far as your obsession with whether or not you can give random men erections, I think that’s about control (over men, sexual situations, etc.). What are your thoughts?

Thanks for that. My mother had a way of making situations even more uncomfortable than they would be already. I don’t know if she was right but remembering that gives me the creeps. Yuck.