Comments by "christine paris" (@christineparis5607) on "Virginia Woolf: The Stream of Modernist Creation" video.

  1. I'm in my 60s, and disorders like CPTSD can get really old as I age. I always thought as I aged, I would work things out and be free of it, but that's not how it works, most of the time. Learning to accept yourself, good and bad, is key, and not comparing yourself to those who seem "normal"...I have many books about Virginia and her family and friends, and the whole extended family had mental disorders. Virginia's uncle was truly insane, and would come to the house to attack her older stepsister, Stella, thinking that they were in love. The abuse that Stella endured was considered just dealing with things women had to do...Stella believed that sex was a violation and put off marriage as long as possible. In that family, only other women could be trusted, and all the girls experienced positive reinforcement only with each other. Virginia wasn't committed to a gay lifestyle, or identified a sapphic, (except in a wry, self deprecating manner), and her sister, Vanessa, was the only person whom she could love without shame. She was so jealous of Vanessa that she tried to sleep with Vanessa's husband, Clive. She was guilty over this betrayal of the sisters trust, according to Vanessa's daughter, and Vanessa never forgave her. It came between them all the rest of their lives. So terribly sad.
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