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angry. Too many people I care about out in the societal wind, storms brewing.

emotionally drained. feeling fear. And resentment toward the dangerous society we live in.

EMDR has always been a series of starts and stops for me. I should be pretty stabilized and getting "good at it" but I think my daily...

Sorry to hear it, complete empathy for your situation. Mine starts as spasms and muscle tension achiness and the spirals into...

@FFwife No, I was a lowly volunteer, rural no less. I got a lot of high closing speed MVA and rolled up on many many scenes alone in the...

Thanks. I am already enrolled in an outpatient group through a referral from my psychiatrists office, but these have been so narrow or...

I am hopeful but realistically pessimistic that there are groups meeting, somewhere, anywhere, for mutual support and discourse...

that is what is likely to happen. kids are working up to telling her she needs to recover in a structured environment and it isn't my...

I can sure understand all of that. Maybe it's time to find a way to quit waiting. That doesn't necessarily mean divorce. It doesn't seem...

@enough , just a random thought.. but ciggies (nicotine) are more than an addiction or choice (including a moral one) if someone is...

I stopped almost twenty years ago, but I did it the "easy' way. I was laid up in a hospital bed tethered to the bed, and even if I could...

End of the rope. I have been off work and home with her for a week and at the end of the week I am farther from wanting to help her than...

that I cannot believe I am at this place. After doing the job for over a year I got a new boss and an intern and at the end of the...

for the longest time my then counselor told me that avoidance wasn't healing, like the only thing that would make anything better was...

A beautiful realization. Yes. Glad you are seeing a way through and connecting with what’s important.

Boundaries are what will save your sanity as a supporter. They don’t have to be all or nothing, as in the end of the relationship...

I have my stuff. I am a new owner of a life long want/need tractor to make maintaining this place easier, at least able to walk at the...

@OliveJewel That name of yours makes me think emeralds? the tree makes me think fine olive oil in a clear bottle? I wil address the...

Every night before I go to sleep I build a safe place. I build it like an awake dream. Most times it is on an island so nobody can get...

@OliveJewel thanks. I just have time right now to say thanks. that was a great post.

Not on the supporter side, but I was in a codependent marriage with children and extended family and a mortgage. I thought my only way...

She drank and drinks the kool aid. She has no one to compare her to and the fact that I have had so many just discounts my opinion in...

doing the taxes on April 17 cause I knew I would owe, boy do I ! Listening to Snarky Puppy, because they are a recent discovery and I...

Tender Love - Meshell Ndegeocello

I wonder if they are named after this song by Steely Dan? Deacon Blues - Steely Dan

Yes, they are! 😊 R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People

Good Day Sunshine - The Beatles (A good song for Easter 🐣 🌞 💐)

Another avenue to a better place is blocked! Her counselor was hired to be our marriage counselor but after a few visits, I decided she...

Are you sure this all has to do with the trauma only? Many people struggle and are withdrawn when they reach bad health. What are you...

And I agree, after all I have learned in life I know for sure that if you allow unwanted behavior you get more of it- but what to do...

I would argue that those people aren’t real supporters then. I do get that the fear is real to sufferers. “You” (collective supporter...

Not to discredit what you are saying at all, it echoes in my head and is harsh light of day true and proven, we all need to "take care...

And that answer comes back to me as "the road I have chosen'. There have been so many times that I should have left her, but that ship...

Yeah, I didn’t expect much from playing for her. I play a lot and most nights it is just a random Spotify mix and I play along with or...

She is just not in the game. I do everything I can and the stuff she can do she has to be asked to do, it’s like she doesn’t think cause...

@Bigmess thanks for the compliment. There is a feeling that the relationship between the size of a crowd and the potential for chaos...

Supporters are the people I am asking for help from, so I want to get this, but I am maybe confused- better for me when she is coaxed...

@Friday I know that bringing shit to the table is a fast way to make things worse. It’s a fact that I know about a dozen ways to make it...

@joeylittle Yeah, that's come up. Doing so would mean that she has to explain it all to another counselor, and thats the only reason...

I have to state upfront that I am a victim posting in the supporter's section because that's where I think I will get the answers to my...

I wouldn't say everyone or anyone is "out to get me". That requires that they have a plan and are in the process of using it to"get" me...

Cake has been on in the head music track for a day or so. They can play for hours, "never there" is getting heavy rotation.

Snakes! Hate 'em, but after the first reflexive intake of air and reconnoiter of egress routes, I am interested in their markings and...

Wylie Hubbard says her name is Ramona, fails to mention her official title.

I know a long distance runner that has had hours of floating above himself views of the ultra marathons he runs. he says it is probably...

not as they were happening, but after traumatic events I will think about them and eventually get around to dreams where i am watching...

I live in a mountain state in the Pacific Northwest region of the US 😉

hi neighbor!

hi neighbor!