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Welcome to the forum - things will definitely get better! Glad you found your way here☺️

I haven’t experienced it to that extreme, but to a degree some of that is familiar. I’m currently dealing with insomnia, which is its own kind of hell. But I did deal with hypersomnolence for a long time sleeping around 16-18 hours a day, which was pretty damn crippling. Zero energy even when...

It can definitely be a very slow process. It will get better - but yep, it tends to do the “gets worse before it gets better” thing. Sorry that’s where you’re at right now, because it’s a shit place to be. Be open with your T about how you’re coping, and what ‘not coping’ looks like for you...

Welcome to the forum - glad you found us☺️

Hell yeah - welcome Chris! There’s a lot of things I don’t like about technology, but instant translation is very cool 😎

Welcome to the forum. That’s a lot to go through - the anxiety that you’re describing sounds crippling. Hope you are getting some support for that, because it’s definitely something you can heal from:)

Fwiw, I think you already did that by making that post. That’s your DBT skills in action: a thing happened that had big negative emotions, you noticed it, accommodated it, and you’re carrying on adaptively. All of that is rock solid work, so try not to get too down on yourself.

This comes up periodically. I’m looking at potentially doing some ketamine or mdma augmented therapy, so I’m confronting some of the fears I’ve got about that, which is why it’s come up (again!) now for me. I have this contradictory relationship with my lack of conscious recall (or…just plain...

There’s so much judgment in your posts - it reads like you’ve been triggered and that this really isn’t about her at all. So, what’s the issue? Are you dating the person you’ve decided she was 10 years ago (and, since you weren’t there, and potentially haven’t even met ex, seems pretty...

To help put it in perspective, is it you or her that has ptsd?

Great question. I won’t go through your entire post - partly because of how long it is, but mostly because the process of identifying the cognitive distortions we use is a massive component of addressing them and healing. But to give you an idea, over the first few paragraphs alone, I’m seeing...

Welcome to the forum. Bullying and harassment is no joke, and can definitely have some serious mental health consequences. It would be worth getting some support with that. The social anxiety you’re describing is worth getting help with, because life doesn’t need to be this hard. There’s also...

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