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seanmarsh33 10/30/2014

I'm 43 now in my teens I used to write a lot of poetry and short stories. but because of my ptsd and empathy for others in pain, my stuff was borderline Edgar Allen Poe, and Clive Barker. Well in High School I was suspended and forced to seek help before I could return. Then later in life I was coerced into thinking my poems were evil and burned all my old stuff. I then walked away from poetry. Alas they are gone forever. Before I understood they were my coping mechanism. So here is my question. Has this happened to anyone else. Back then I gave stuff away, I wish I knew people who had some of my old stuff.

cheesecake88 10/30/2014

seanmarsh, I have a book of poems/short stories, written during very black depressions...in my 40's, it was, like you, my way to cope, and sometimes I look at them now and realize what a bad place I was in, one poem in particular haunts me, but I know how much better it was that I could write those feelings down/get the bad stuff out of me.
I'm sorry someone made you feel your poetry was evil and you no longer have it, but putting feelings down/journal or poem IMO is a really good coping mechanism. Sometimes I want to throw that book of poems away...because I don't want to go *back there*...for me I know
it helped at the time. Healing Hugs to you!

Rizen 10/30/2014

I write some darker poems and stories.

bluedragon41 10/30/2014

I'm sorry that was done to you... Ow.
I have sort of shifted from poetry to painting, but what can you do to get past the scarring of having destroyed your earlier stuff?

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