Inspired by @Friday ‘s post I am curious about how your experiences with PTSD and relationships with trees might have overlapped. In my own experience I learned about protection and unconditional love from individual trees in my life.
I used to do something called 5Rhythms dance as part of my recovery. It’s like free form dance that has a structure to the flow of movement through the songs that are played. I recently read more about it and the five stages of movement are also associated with emotions: Fear, Anger, Sadness...
I was reading about how the idea that pedophilia is a sexual orientation is gaining traction. I have become aware that just because one has a sexual orientation does NOT imply that it’s ethical to engage in it.
@Weemie you gave an informative list of categories of pedophiles which I found...
Can anyone help me understand what the colloquial difference is between lover and boyfriend or partner as you understand it to be?
(Substitute girlfriend for boyfriend as needed.)
At night I lose my sense of self sometimes. I become panicky and overwhelmed and don’t want to go to sleep because I don’t want to remember everything when I wake up. I would rather stay in my dreams forever. Or never go to sleep. But I have to.
Reminds me of how people with dementia get...
This has been rolling around in my head lately and I want to lay it out and examine it with help from y’all. I have heard more than once (no sources) that some clinicians put CPTSD and Borderline in the same category. As in, they are two words for the same thing.
What are your thoughts about...
Opening this discussion up again. I am interested in stories from people who have moved forward in some way with forgiveness, particularly toward those who abused them in some way. What was the catalyst? How did you find your way into and through that journey? Is it an ongoing process? How...
Read about this study where researchers taught people that the source of their chronic back pain could be a brain process rather than compressed discs, arthritis, weak muscles, etc. Pain research had already shown that while injuries may cause the initial pain that certain cells not related to...
Need feedback to discern the behavior of someone who I thought was a good friend. Things got weird and I feel uncomfortable. I know that's reason enough. But it's sort of lingering and I feel I need to talk through it.
Background: Met this friend at the park last year. Our dogs were puppies...
Plants are believed to have no neural network (possibly some recent discoveries of synapse-like cells). Yet they make lots of neurotransmitters, like dopamine, melatonin, serotonin, GABA, and more. Why? Many different reasons but an overarching one is stress tolerance. This is fascinating to...
Ok, first off, I know menopause isn’t a disorder but I figured this is a good sub forum for it because it is treated like one. Anyway, listened to a podcast where a woman shared her experience transitioning to male and back. I learned a lot about menopause which surprised me, but after I...
I know it’s so easy to be a Scrooge. I’ve generally despised the holidays for various reasons and it’s changed since going through recovery. After recovery I can stay present and get myself to admit that I enjoy certain aspects of it.
On a core level though there’s a sense of unease. I...
This morning I was driving to work and saw someone riding a ten-speed bike which triggers hypervigilance in me and I was wondering what other people’s personal triggers might be, especially ones that others might be surprised by unless they knew your story.
Previous triggers which I have...
Do you think pedophilia is a mental illness?
Some people think that pedophilia is caused by trauma and abuse so is a mental illness but not an excuse to act upon the impulses.
Some people think that pedophilia is a random sexual orientation without any cause, that people who have it must learn...
Is evil a concept that is important or helpful to you? If it is a relevant concept can you share your views on what it means, either from an ethical or religious perspective or??
Here Are some ideas I have.
Religious:
Absence of, or turning away from God
Cosmic force locked in a battle with...
Accepting that they hurt you. What are the stages of grief? Denial anger depression acceptance. I’m forgetting one.
Looking for understanding that it’s sometimes difficult to accept that they hurt you. Not impossible. Right now I’m just trying to tell my small parts: Bad evil hurt you...
Hi all! Let’s post pictures of and talk about Equus asinus.
This is Waffles and Wicket. They are Mediterranean miniature asses. They love hugs and practicing agility with their trainers.
I am. But some parts have hijacked my system and we are living with the rule that we are not.
Here are the reasons:
It is dangerous for us to behave that way. It always has been and it always will be.
We are better off without it. Our life will be much better this way.
The parts who were...
Hi. I’m dumb and I don’t know what resources are available to help a parent find a residential program for an alcoholic teen that never goes to school. I’m in USA. I don’t trust google, I would like to know what social services are generally available and if there are any trustworthy...
Watched this video by the same name and it was calling me out big time.
I think this is a big part of my challenges with intimacy and dating.
Limerence is kind of like a crush but way deeper—it’s the child part *sure* that they found the missing caregiver who will finally fill that hole of...
A game of creative and personal expression. You answer the previous question and ask your own. Can be mundane, common (like “what’s your favorite color/food/animal?” Or esoteric, absurd (like “what’s your favorite love/wall/note?”)
Want to try? I’ll start…
What’s your favorite season?
I am wondering if sex is a sort of dissociative event even for people without a history of sexual assault or abuse? When I was married I dissociated every single time we had sex.
Been single for four years. Only had sex with other people a handful of times. Wasn’t able to fully dissociate so...
Starting a thread about this because it’s been cropping up for me lately. It might be a short thread because I don’t have much of a position to state, more interested in exploring, especially in connection with suffering.
How much of our PTSD symptoms are wrapped around this concept...