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Thank you! I really appreciate the response, and the reminder. It’s true, once you start recovery it’s with you for life. You can only...

hello mermaid. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. posilutely, i believe you can turn things...

gentle empathy on the feeling that nothing you do is sufficient. i once had an awards banquet thrown in my honor and probably felt less...

Hahaha! My dog (chihuahua) got his foot stuck on one in my parents basement last year...scared him to pieces...must've thought he was...

hello nargajuna. welcome to the forum. i congratulations on your wisdom in seeking therapy for yourself. i think my husband has...

thanks for the hot tip. i wish i had thunk of that when i was trying to rescue a toddler from one of those blasted things.

Thank you and likewise. You are right! Im glad you pointed that out because they are left in that fence 365 days 24/7. Not even sure if...

by whatever analogy, the math isn't difficult. less resource for use "a" leaves more resource for use "b". healing happens, bamboo. i...

hello serendipty. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. the child sex trafficking freak show i...

nice to formally meet you, hallowean. i spotted your dog complaint posts and decided not to go there. i am a devoted animal lover and...

Love this!

good luck finding the exact story. humanity is endlessly creative, especially when it comes to repression and denial, but i find more...

Yes anything that interrupts overthinking and rumination works best. Change of clothes if you are sweaty, then find something that you...

journaling and restful activities are my go to remedy for insomnia. when i am being plagued by nightmares, i find it more restful to...

gentle empathy, maple. the low self-esteem, guilt, etc., remain mean demons in my own psycho closet, as well, though they do seem to be...

It's okay :)

i've never found a way to consciously break a freeze response. i've had a few of my freeze responses segway into flight, but that was...

Oh yes, as many animals! they’re also so clean they can afford living in trash bins. In French they’re called washing rats 😂 I’m...

So things are a little better. Still the kids are afraid to get together with each other. My older daughter has so much stress and...

to tame the inner racoon? ? ? hm-m-m-m. . . racoons are actually some of the cleaner animals in nature. possibly even cleaner than the...

greetings, mammal. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here but glad you are here. you have a very good chance of finding...

hello angela. welcome to the forum. i would agree with your brother if the dreams were pleasant or better, but you feel these as...

you are right. i misinterpreted. sorry for sharing.

I think you misinterpreted my post... LOL. I do risky things. This was just a personal post and what safety means to me.

yup, i experience similar. i'm gaining skill in managing my episodes to prevent the escalation to suicidal ideation, but the episodes...

i believe in balance for all things. back in the 70's/80's, i was a regular safety joe as a star pupil in all the OSHA classes, etc...

virtually listening. . .

i believe in hopeless parts, but just parts. radical acceptance of the hopeless parts leaves me far more energy to focus on the hopeful...

no doubt about it. anniversaries are hard. i'm currently dealing with a mean one myself and. . . the very act of typing it out here in...

gentle empathy, weemie. as a 68 year old child sex trafficking survivor, i still feel hopelessly broken and don't ever expect to be...

Thanks for responding to my thread. I appreciate the gentle support and I agree that dreams are a mystery and a phenomena. It took me a...

i've wondered about a frontal lobotomy to get rid of all this. . . sigh. . . maybe next week. for now i think i'll just scratch a few...

If you're thinking about killing yourself it's time to pull out the big guns. Who can you call *right now*?

which yardstick are you using to measure, "right?"

gentle empathy on this score. early into my therapy i was so uptight that the stick up my as had a stick up its ass. self-compassion...

hello feli. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. in my own 50 year relationship with ptsd...

Lol I am not doing that.

how 'bout if you carry in a print out of the threads you posted here? they sounded quite articulate to me and sometimes it is easier to...

on the veteran's administration roster where i have received the bulk of my therapy, i "graduated" to "therapy maintenance" around 2k...

is there a clean and polite way out of shitty corners? escaping a cesspool calls for tripping on a few turds. setting that question...

i second the suggestion of noise canceling headphones and/or white noise (sound machine). i have hearing issues, so i avoid noise...

Yeah. I guess in a way I should be grateful for the dreams waking me up to the fact that these things may be bigger issues than I...

Thanks, it means a lot to me that people care ☺️ the institution got back to me to say they treat behaviour like very seriously so I’m...

i'm another who uses especially vivid, life-related dreams to guide my therapy, most especially if they are related to past events. i...

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if i may opine. . . nowhere near enough said, skip. minimizing my own pain is the surest route i know to turning myself into and...

wow! ! ! it never occurred to me that my 40 odd birds could be bad for my ptsd. nor my 2 donkeys, dog and 4 barn cats. can you tell i...

girl, howdy, i know that feeling, all too well. in my own case, i was in therapy for around 25 years before the ptsd dx was even...

gentle empathy, warrior. it has never been easy for me to trust. after 2 1/2 years of covidic social distances marginalizing all...

i hope you feel safe to express these dark thoughts here, justme. inside my own psychosis, suppressing those thoughts only gives them...