This reminds me of here, the emergency compliment generator http://emergencycompliment.com/

Meant to be taken in jest, of course.

Since you started this thread and thanks for it.I agree....i'll share something that i was thinking yesterday while listening to one of my fav songs "Slave To Love" by Bryan Ferry...I love this verse,

You're running with me
Don't touch the ground.
We're the restless hearted
Not the chained and bound.
The sky is burning
A sea of flame

Though your world is changing I will be the same.

This song has never made me think of a boyfriend or any romantic liaison.

It makes me think of people like us...that have gone through hell and back and have actually grown from it.....We do live and struggle with our symptoms of PTSD but we are not them......We are good people.

Thanks muji. I totally agree. So many loving people here. Going out of their way to help others. Who we don't even know except on-line. I
have not slept since Friday am. 7-10am. Its Sunday and I have not got
any sleep. I had a concussion I think Thurs. pm. -- my head has been injured hundred times. One to attempt suicide. Threw myself down a whole bunch of steps, concrete, landing on top of my skull. I hit hard.
My husband at the time always at bar. never home...came home to find me at the bottom of basement steps. Concrete. I was unconscious in and out. He didn't take me to the Hospital. Probably too drunk. EX- now. I sleepwalk at night. Don't want to go to my bed, sleep in it. -psychological reasons. I use to be standing in the kitchen and fall straight back land on my head,and body. My head
I believe, that I have damage to part of my brain. Even the doctors I
see, they all check my pupils if dilating or restricted.

Been in ambulance three times this last month and now recently. I
was "blacking out" --at McDs, Friday night, I was eating sandwich.
Then I blacked out after like two bites. I turned my car off to save gas. STUPID. ..so I was in my car blacked out. I had food in my throat. So I came to and was confused. But I knew what happened.
Kind of went into little panic attack. But was able to come out of it.

Funny thing, I was still holding onto my sandwich! weird. I was out about an hour I think. My car was freezing, and I was. Iced up on my windows. and windshield. So nobody knew I was in my car??
Thank you GOD,, Blessing me.

Blessings, Muji

A huge part of my damaged self-esteem is the need to talk people out of compliments. If something nice is being said, it can't be ME under discussion.

Everybody else is pretty awesome, though...

muji~I believe for me compliments and positive comments are part of healing. It make feel awkward at first, even causing an irritation of first, like someone is demaining where you are but I was taught where I felt it or not to just say thank you for compliments and the rest follows. As to positive comments, it is a tool in healing when used. As survivors, we have enough negative experiences, thoughts put in our heads so by being positive (fake it until you make it) counter balances it. Too Muji, you have reminded me of having an attitude of gratitude. Sometimes that seems impossible in the midst of the throws,you dont have to write a book, starting with one or a few like you did sets the course to a better place...Thanks for the post

All the best, everybody. Gizzy, I hope you're well. Muji