Why did you choose the forum name you use?

[Angrboda]

I don't know. I guess I just decided that bringer of distress and mother of god-slaying monsters sounded badass enough.

And I like the story about what Odin chooses to do about the situation with Angrboda's son Fenrir. In Norse mythology, the only entities more powerful than the gods are the Nornir. They are responsible for determining the fate of all beings, and what they have decreed can never be changed. So when the Gjallarhorn sounds and Ragnarok comes, Odin will face Fenrir on the field of battle, and the father of the gods will be slain. Yet even though he knows that it's hopeless, he still sends his valkyries to collect souls from the battlefield and bring them to his hall at Valhalla, to amass an army and fight the wolf.

 

[bellbird]

I guess I just decided that bringer of distress and mother of god-slaying monsters sounded badass enough.

Interesting! In my head I always read it as an abstract pronunciation of 'angry bird' :P

 

[ILoveLife]

I wanted something that didn't mean anything.. but found out later it's a company's name in India lol :hilarious:

 

[ladee]

LOL @Sietz... best one yet !!!

 

[katz]

Hi guys/gals ;) I would like to share something personal on this thread. It fits the topic and fully...

I used to have bunnies when I was younger. I had a white one named "Abilgale" and then a few years later, I got one much larger and named her "Eilean". Both loved to be snuggled. Happy "snuggling". :)

I have always found my pets to be my best companians. They seem to understand my pain, and don't ever judge you. They just love you for who you are and the way you are.

 

[Mee]

Pets are the best, right?

The only upside to mY hiding out in the bedroom so much is that my old cat loves it. She thinks I am just like her now and after her breakfast in the morning she is impatient for me to get back upstairs with her.

 

[Deleted member 46500]

took my name from the book Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes PhD ...if you google 13 reasons why you should read women who run with wolves you'll find a piece of treasure.

 

[mumstheword]

took my name from the book Women Who Run With The Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archety...

That book is one of my bibles! I am big on Jungian psychology and fairy tales and I love love love Clarissa Pinkola Estes!

 

[CatInTree]

It's both easy for me to remember and different enough from everything else I've used to avoid being recognized.

 

[Deleted member 8714]

My original name on here was Incongruous. I used it because I felt incongruent with my abuse/PTSD and my life. I recently changed it and my Trauma Diary to Congruency because things are starting to sync together. Incongruous means not in harmony or keeping with the surroundings or other aspects of something. Most of the incongruency centered around my father's abuse and what he perpetrated on others. I've come to terms with that and accepted that I had nothing to do with his criminal acts. Those were his choices not mine; his acts not mine.

 

[The Bat-Fax]

Mine is a reference to a Calvin And Hobbes strip.

 

[whiteraven]

Interesting thread. I've been whiteraven for a long time, on another forum (not mental-health related). It is related to my system name, and I chose it after I was diagnosed, after we chose the system name. There is a legend that the first bird Noah sent out to check for land was a white raven and when she didn't return (she found it, apparently LOL), God punished the raven by changing its color to black.

For me, the white raven symbolizes the "original" (as in "core" when talking about DID) and also rebellion.