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I love the name healing warrior! It has been a huge battle and this a great step for me who usually succumbs to anxiety and then...

i'm throwing you a ticker tape parade, maximus. i hope you are giving yourself a treat for positive affirmation. i find that taking the...

i'm functionally clueless about CBT, but i swear by ACT. i picked up my own ACT techniques through workshops more than individual...

hello hawkeye. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. i only wish i had a one-size-fits-all...

knowing who to blame, judge and punish has yet to heal a wound. there is a logic i solidly agree with for keeping courts and hospitals...

I sent my therapist an email after the thing she said yesterday about how it was unusual for a woman to have gone through so much...

i'm all too often wrong when i guess at what other people are thinking. my mind reading skills genuinely suck. when i invite other folks...

gentle empathy, asylum. perhaps the number one problem i've had in my own recovery is keeping the slow pace. i've invested a WHOLE MONTH...

i'll second @DharmaGirl 's sense that there is a huge diff between a panic attack and being emotional. i can't function during a panic...

Yeah, I need someting like this. Plain old exercise doesn't help--I need to destroy something when I feel like this.

no apology needed for the hiatus, amg. move at whatever speed or intensity fits your comfort zone. i swear by all of those techniques...

emotional channeling is my front line tool for managing such episodes. if i'm depressed, i might channel the sadness into singing sad...

hello ptsdandme. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. for my own psycho nickel, i start this...

hello timeless. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. congratulations on finding the courage to...

it's normal for me. i can no more predict my ptsd symptoms than i can predict next year's weather.

it be a fine and fuzzy line between denial and putting your focus where it matters most. raising 3 good kids sounds like a mighty fine...

@arfiI think you are on to something as I felt better after attending my church group after a while

this was true for me early on. awareness i of the phenom made for some huge differences. i still have people i involuntarily dissociate...

i feel a sense of disconnect when i achieve detachment. detaching from the problems which over-stimulate my emotions is a primary goal...

when i estranged from my birth family, i would never have dreamed of asking for help with anything, not even for help with enjoying the...

if you don't want to imagine your life with her by your side, the forgiveness still points to an exit sign. the forgiveness accomplishes...

i'm not too certain within my pre-therapy dissociation, but these days i often do so by design to help me through a dreary event. for...

Sounds like you're very mindful of this process and aware (at least when you're out of it) what's going on... I'm fascinated hearing...

total empathy, eve. just before the global shutdown, i started my second parenting career in an area where i had never lived before...

i do and it all to often explodes with a sudden ferocity that i can no more stop than i can put a plug in a volcano. turning my anger...

hello coldplain. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. i am also a vet, but of the generation...

i have had isolated incidents of regret for having said anything, but i solidly believe i am only as sick as my secrets. holding those...

I think in my heart from the info I am getting on line it is best to let it go. I am sure it is easy to manipulate yourself or have...

that makes perfect sense to me. for a decade or three i kept a dream journal in an effort to remedy my epic, sleep deprivation levels of...

you are quite far from alone on this, beaneeboo. it is, in fact, the heart and soul of the family dysfunction cycle. yes and no. in my...

my very first psych dx was "trauma induced amnesia." i had blocked the memory of my entire childhood, up to approximately 19 years old...

i'm coming up on my 43rd anniversary and STILL acting out this dynamic. personally, i hold that dynamic as being as natural as...

Nah, not tacky in the least. Peach nehi is delicious, this terrorist furball, not so much. You mihjy recall Turner and Hooch movie...

this morning i am using mindfulness. i didn't sleep well last night, overslept this morning and am definitely a few fries short of a...

total empathy, cerridwen, all the way to feeling it more intensely now that it is no longer a daily event in my life. the increased...

Nietzsche was a complex thinker and my own studies of his works happened way back in the days when people were smarter than phones...

hello beeneeboo. welcome to the forum. in my personal herstory, dissociation can happen without apparent cause and/or physical causes...

not quite. Nietzsche makes it sound like all sick people are destined to commit evil deeds and repeat his/herstory. i am sick but i use...

methinks i empathize through the differences. i sleep like a dog, napping when there is nothing going on and active for whatever action...

i respectfully disagree with Nietzsche on his disbelief in free will as adamantly as i disagree with his disbelief in god. both are...

hello nehi. is it tacky of me to say your name has given me a craving for a soft drink? well. . . at best, it's off topic. welcome to...

I started going to a clinic (as opposed to a private physician) in 2020, and I do a little better there. They feel less judgmental and...

I never thought of it like that before and it's true it does take a village to heal

gentle empathy, raven. i don't have anywhere near your background, nor do i stress over it every day, but i share your ...

my own flashbacks daisy chain. one memory leads to another and it can, indeed, be a hard chain to break. my own spins on the...

for what it's worth in my strictly personal herstory, i have found it better to resist comparing support groups. groups have even more...

your terminology is new to me, but, assuming the terms don't cover bigger meanings i am unaware of, methinks the principles resonate...

posilutely i go through this, often enough that it has become a familiar routine. however dysfunctional the coping mechanism i am giving...

hello icy. welcome to the forum. sorry for what brings you here, but glad you are here. i'm 68 and long normalized in my smorgasbord of...

hypersexuality is obsessive sex. i am a child prostitution survivor. to waaaaaaay over-simplify, i was basically acting out...