Recent content by Sideways

Welcome to the forum. I’m sorry for what you’ve been through. It’s incredibly hard when the people in our lives aren’t able to hear our stories or hold our truth with us. I hope that your T is someone that you can be completely open with, because it’s so valuable to have that from someone, and...

Here in Australia, Emotional Support Animals have no legal recognition.

Welcome to the forum - sorry for the reasons that brought you here. Hopefully there’s some helpful resources here to help your recovery.

Welcome to the forum - hope everything is okay ☺️

Mod Note: If you’ve been triggered by this thread, make the decision to step away. Your regulation is your responsibility, per our Community Constitution. @ms spock & @Calm in the chaos - you’ve drifted a long way from talking to the OP about their post, and are now just have a side...

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If there’s a lot of overlap with your own experiences, consider peer / lived experience roles where that will be an asset, rather than a problem. AOD is very real. Hard, complex work with multiple layers of issues that are all feeding each other, and you get to work in a very narrow window of...

PTSD happened. Something triggered you (could have been environmental, cognitive, somatic, emotional - the list of potential triggers is infinite), and you went into fight/flight mode. A hair-trigger Fight/Flight response is textbook PTSD. Arguably the defining feature of ptsd. It doesn’t...

Okay, there’s good news and bad news. The good news? Getting anxious about an environmental stressor, like barking dogs, falls well below the threshold for ptsd. There’s multiple groups of symptom clusters, and you need to have symptoms rise to clinical levels in each category. The bad news...

Identifying my own warning signs, and having appropriate interventions that I was willing to commit to when they happen. Mine was a traffic light system - more serious warning signs had more serious interventions. It was an incredibly helpful process for me - one that I have revisited multiple...

It’s not something that I’d say I do frequently enough to have a usual approach. But, the underlying drive would be curiosity I think. I have requirements for people that I’m in a relationship with - being able to treat each other respectfully is definitely necessary for me. The second part...

Welcome to the forum. This is a massive personal setback, and after so long in this career, it makes sense that it’s caused such a lot of ongoing distress. Might be time to reach out for some professional support to help you get back to the headspace you need to be in to start kicking goals again.