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The best way to work on making connections like the kind you're describing is by integrating more into your 3-D life. For the mental...

Threads do get locked but you can use ‘Contact Us’ to request a thread be reopened. Sideways kindly opened it up for me. Hmm…ok…yeah...

Welcome to the forum. Have you considered finding some professional support for yourself?

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Tough gig waking up to this. #GoldCoastLife

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Espresso, tacos, & a warm sleeping bag. Wait. I didn’t eat the sleeping bag, I ate IN it, which made the whole meal just lovely...

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Oh yeah! There’s a a thread for Fibro sufferers here somewhere because it’s so prolific in the trauma community. Gut issues tend to...

I loved schema therapy, but it was quite complicated and very heavy going, despite not requiring me to talk about my trauma in any way...

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Yeah - this is the landscape I live in. I'll be able to share more in the morning, but I wanted to at least let you know that you're...

Addit - was a misunderstanding, she hadn’t read my email properly. I copy/pasted that paragraph of my words. We haven’t worked out...

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Welcome to the forum:)

I’ve always found a way to express my emotions. The problem was it was very often self-destructive, or at the very least...

No, they are interpreting as they read what you wrote. Everything isn't about you. People read things, they interpret, they respond. If...

It’s entirely possible that you have schizophrenia and PTSD. They aren’t mutually exclusive in any way. I take atypical antipsychotics...

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Yeah, I found an OT that did a lot of sensory work by dumb luck. She wasn’t a trauma specialist. She was funded by NDIS, so mostly she...

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Mod Note: All good. I’ve moved it back to the Dissociation forum. It was moved to other disorders with a DID sub-header because it...

My personal experience with anti-depressants is they aren’t so powerful that they will snuff out ptsd symptoms completely. For me...

Good sleep hygiene is absolutely as much about what we’re doing for good sleep during the day as it is about what happens during the night!

What I do in the day, even the morning, affects how I sleep at night. The cumulative effect of the day's intake has a huge impact on my...

“Get trauma” is probably a weird way to say it. Nightmares can be traumatic, in the typical use of the word. Like “watching that movie...

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Sounds like you had a breakthrough of sorts. As I was reading your post I had flashbacks to my own trauma therapy and I can remember...

Can you find someone? Trauma specialists in Australia are often connected to the private hospitals that offer trauma therapy, so...

Welcome to the community! @phemstros For more about us do check out our Community Constitution & New Member Information We’re peer to...

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Ever worked on eliminating triggers stressors? https://www.myptsd.com/threads/working-with-triggers.83654/

I mean, it was about 20 years of living the other side of the country from my primary abuser before I even got the right diagnosis...

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When I went slow, it wasn't just going slow--my therapist and I were exploring what was pulling me into dissociation in the first place...

Even if I assume that my best years should have been my 20s, and that it’s all downhill from here (in my 40s), I’m still looking at...

Yeah, I set my alarm. I eat by the clock. I still use the same times they used in hospital (it worked as an inpatient, no reason to...

What other things do you tend to do to help emotionally regulate? Now and in the past? What worked, what didn’t? Have you explored...

I can definitely see how this would be helpful for a lot of folks. For me? Nope! I have DID, and my parts kept interfering and...

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Welcome to the forum - I hope you find some healing here.

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There’s nothing convenient about being unwell. Hope there’s leas trips to the ER in your future and more support. Welcome to the forum!

You have a lot of things to be angry about. And they aren’t small things - they’re big and very personal injustices that have been...

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