IceDragon

I bumped into someone I used to know a few years back when I was doing my Holistic Therapy diploma, and I literally had to restrain myself from saying anything to her - luckily she didn't recognise me.

I just...Holy shit, I was almost shocked to tears.

The clothes she was wearing would have been too small for my ten year old daughter, her face looked like a skull with the skin stretched over it and through the top she was wearing, you could see all the bones in her spine and shoulders sticking out. She was all bent over and didn't walk, she shuffled like an old woman, and she's younger than me.

I know she could be ill or something, but it's the first time I've been so shocked I've almost burst into tears in public - and I only cry very rarely.

:unsure: It just makes me want to know why. Is that a bad thing?

PWGriffin

It's natural, either out of genuine concern or morbid curiosity.

IceDragon

Definitely concern. Something like curiosity wouldn't have hit me as bad as that did.

The thing is, I'm a very blunt person. If I think something, I say it so for me to have to literally clamp my jaws shut, it really was a big deal for me.

I just wanted to help her so bad, but how the hel can you bring up something as deeply personal as that when I haven't seen her in years? It's one of the reasons I went into holistic therapy, in a way.

1quick1

Yea a touchy situation.

IceDragon

Is it really so bad for me to want to help people who suffer with it? It's not because I'm butting in, more a case of you know, this is killing them kind of thing.

I can't quite get across what I mean. Bugger it.