I also understand you feelings Gina.
I've learnt from quite bitter experience that the old addage 'There's nowt queer as folk' to be true. Many people have done quite strange things in their lives and these can often seem to be almost impossible to us. But often, the issue is that they are outside our own experiences.
Another problem, when people talk as intimately as they do on here, is that we can often get our timing mixed up. I know I've done this myself, recalling events which happened at a particular time only to later realise, they happened later or earlier.
But again, with the sort of very personal issues that we discuss here, many people find recalling some things difficult and will include those embelishments they have put upon them, simply to help them deal with situations.
I don't know how many have ever found a repressed menory. I was once pushed to remember an incident when I was incredably frightened. I still don't understand how I forgot it in the first place.
Your cynicism is natural of course. But as Cindy says, this is a support site. For many, facing up to problems they have attempted, for many years, to avoid. So a bit of lattitude is called for.
For me, personally, to find such a bunch of incredably caring and tolerant people who have simply accepted me, without judgement or snide comment has made me all the more determined to try my best to give that to others.
