Recent content by Mit

I am a parent and step parent. I am in no doubt that my having PTSD, depression, GAD, or whatever diagnoses has had an impact on my kids. The impacts I believe are both positive and certainly negative. I am not abusing my children directly, but indirectly I am in no doubt it’s affected their...

Thank you both for the article. I thought it both factual and very sensitively written. It insightfully framed aspects of my own suicide attempt and ideations. I’m sure it will be a source of help and comfort to suffers and supporters. Cheers – mit

Thanks for the article. Although I’m rubbish at actually practicing these techniques the principles seem sound to me. The discussion about do thoughts = feelings is of interest to me. In my case I think they are sometimes connected and sometimes not. I can think negative thoughts and not...

Thanks for the article. I thought it was informative and honest. I have had suicidal thoughts for years. I have learned from your article that these have been for the most part passive suicide ideation. My experience has been: I once took an over dose and ended up in hospital. I was...

I lost all my close friends after social workers told them they believed I was a sexual risk to children. That was their interpretation of my secret sexual self harming behaviours, my acting out of scenes of abuse upon myself, recalled from childhood memories and fantasy based on actual events...

I am back on low dose of sertraline for depression and pregabalin for anxiety. I had a three year break off all meds and was on sertraline for three years before that. It makes life much more tolerable. I had another breakdown a few .months ago and since going back on meds I've felt better...

Thanks. I don't have a therapist. I've been waiting to see one through the nhs for 6 months. I hope to go private, when I can afford the fees. I'm afraid my self harm has to have a sexual component. Nothing else does it.

I've been drawn back to this discussion. My acting out has got worse recently. I'm inflicting damage internally and making myself bleed. I seem to be recreating experiences of medical treatments to my genitals combined with sexual abuse. I'm sure I'm going to cause some real damage but I...

I believe I know what you mean. I recreate my childhood traumas and have other the years evolved the memories into extensive fantasies. Although I don't engage in BDSM with others my fantasies are BDSM in nature, except that in my fantasy I regress to being a child. My acting out alone does...

My partner and i still cuddle and kiss and touch, and are intimate in other ways. I can't engage in intercourse but there are other ways I try to give my partner a sex life. I don't claim it's as satisfying for her as perhaps it once was, but were a few decades older than you so sex isn't...

I was saddened to read this thread. I'm the one in our relationship who has ceased to be able to be sexually active with my partner. I know she has gone through similar turmoil and thoughts as you. Obviously I don't know what may be causing his change in behaviour. In my case i never stopped...

I have had a similar procedure (but I am male) to the one you described, when I was a child and more recently. I had years of surgery and procedures on my genitals, from the age of three, to 'fix' a con-genital disorder. I routinely had to submit to very painful and unpleasant treatments...

You are, I am sad to say, spot on. It is incredibly cruel, in such circumstances, to deny you the right to your history pre-birth, pre adoption, and not to acknowledge it. Bizarrely cruel. I can't comprehend why your adoptive mother would say this. and avoid acknowledging the circumstances of...

I don't know why this is the case or if there is a connection with medical treatment over an extended period....but this is exactly how I feel, that I am still a child or 'child like'. I've not been able to understand why I feel like this. I spent the majority of my childhood in and out of...

I saw my adoptive parents this weekend, it was my mother's birthday, she was 88. They are kind and descent people, but both struggling with age related health problems. In front of my partner and my two teenage sons my mother recounted the story of wanting to adopt a girl, but on seeing me in...