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Good book on exactly this topic is "Anatomy of an Epidemic" by Robert Whitaker...

yeah, that can't be good mate...

Eh, so which one's you then?

hehehe, "dance monkey, dance!" Me...I'd say Lisbeth Salander, minus the tattoos; minus the computer skills...minus the boxing abilities; and minus the goth make-up (though probably wasn't that far off when I was in high school).

Hello, good question. As a child/adolescent: reading; drawing; cutting myself; always going to stay at friends' houses (they rarely came to our house); smoking - especially on the roof of our house, and looking at the sky; running away; switching off emotionally; my main thing that got me...

I was fired last year because my boss didn't like me anymore. This was devastating for a number of reasons: 1. It was just before this that my T had told me, me and my siblings had been "abused" and should have been taken into care. All I had thought about my upbringing and me, basically got...

@Junebug I'm so sorry to hear that. Sounds awful. Yeah, much of my dreams that I remember involve powerlessness. What's your take on it? Or do you think most people's dreams are maybe similar? On a lighter note, my best dream of all time ever - was the one when I was a kid and I could...

@Junebug I rarely have dreams, probably a couple per year (at least that I remember having). They are typically about violence towards me (not based on actual things that happened) or rape.This is the main focus of dreams I have since I was a kid. But the dreams are always "first person"...upon...

Mine are like snapshot images taken with a camera. I've found it's a little cathartic to be able to capture them remotely accurately in drawing.

Hi guys, I was reading this: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/29/opinion/how-to-halt-the-violence-treat-mental-illness.html?_r=0 ...I wondered how long it would take for a piece in the news to come out like this. I find calls for expansion of "Assisted Outpatient Treatment" terrifying for two...

Hi @Ice_Fire I hear what you're saying...I tried working somewhere else...I've interviewed for multiple jobs at other places. The reality is, if I'm going to work in the area I work in, from Sydney, my former company is actually the best place to work. Not to mention the fact that literally...

Hi @Casey_03 - unfortunately my former boss told me a few months ago, in true flippant style, "it wasn't entirely about your personality" - by which I assume he means, only about 95% to do with my personality (!!) They know why I didn't see the psychologist, I told my former boss after I left...

Hi guys... Would appreciate a sanity check here... I would like to go back to the company I used to work for (5.5 years) - but I am concerned that HR would "block" my coming back because they know too much about me? e.g. I had severe depression a few years ago (after what I guess people would...

Thank you @Whispering_Truth and @joeylittle I do agree with you - but things can seem confusing where all images of "domestic violence" (seem to me at least) to focus on visible physical injuries. The first time he did this I was still at school, I was in the backseat, so I got a front row...

Hello. My dad seems to have a habit of losing control in the car - which is bizarre as my parents have multiple cars... My dad has never hit my mother to the point of leaving black eyes etc, and he rarely does it - but: On more than one occasion he has slapped her across the face, whilst she...

Oh, and not to forget - the completely surreal feeling you get, when people/professionals point "it" out, but it feels like they're talking about someone else and someone else's life - the inability to reconcile this alien description of "you" being applied to your own life.

Feeling like you are losing your mind. Incredible loneliness from being trapped in your own head with thoughts and memories. Shutting out everyone you know, because either you're afraid they will hurt you, or that you will hurt them. Reducing your existence more and more, no friends, no...

My daughters' nickname for me, her "Mama", which for some reason she changed to "Hello Mammo" upon watching a motorola advert...??!

Random update... I emailed my father, and reminded him of that "cathartic" cycle he had described. Then included a link to diagram showing the same cycle/pattern (yes kids, that would be the 'cycle of abuse' diagram). I also said that things are not cathartic for those on the receiving end. I...

omg @Unraveling1 - it almost sounds like you've met my Mum with some of those comments. It's the preoccupation with what other people will think...made me even more ashamed, because they clearly were. Looking back now, (twenty years later) what's frustrating is that I was able to lie...

Hi Lolo, Thank you for sharing your experience - I'm really sorry about that, that sounds awful. Yeah, my mum's reaction to seeing my wrist was "I know exactly what you've been doing. We'll talk about that later." (we were in a restaurant). But she never spoke to me about it, (which was fine by...

hi Fadeaway, Thank you for responding. in the course of the "chat" my mum and I were having, it included a laundry list of all the things that we would lose if I spoke...e.g. if you say anything then Social Services will take you away and then none of us: - will have a nice big house to live in...

Hi Lizio, The conversation was in response to the attempt, (I only saw the psychologist because the hospital was making us) - the cutting she wasn't that bothered about, it had been happening for 2 years already. Thank you for responding.

Hi everyone, I attempted suicide when I was a teenager. The hospital required me to see a child psychologist in an outpatient appointment. My Mum drove me to the appointment, and in the carpark told me not to say anything about what happens at home, or the fact that I used to cut myself, on...

Hi Whispering Truth, not "cold" at all, I appreciate the honesty and candour, even if it is a little confronting. But, thank you.