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Having read your recent thread before it got removed: he's not wrong, he's just not helping his situation or your own. I posted a more detailed analysis above based on my own experience prepping for fifteen years now. I started as a teenager knowing we were headed for political instability...

I'm convinced at this point that people only get into the classics to make themselves feel more intelligent. Most of them are dry as hell. That being said I have a soft spot for Shakespeare. You can't really understand his plays in modern times without commentaries but they are hilarious. The...

This is pretty much what the science tells us. To go against the grain I'm not convinced that where it truly ends though. My anecdotal experience with pedophiles and through watching law enforcement documentaries pertaining to pedophiles all over the world make me think that this number is...

I am not like you, but I too am not like most other people. Being ADHD and schizoid with a 170 verbal IQ puts me pretty solidly in multiple categories of "very rare human." But even as distinct as I am, the ways that I am similar to others do outweigh the ways that I am different. My...

It sounds like you lack a stable foundation of people you can rely on for support, so it explains why you gravitated to him when he was being kind to you. You probably did not learn how to identify safe friendships, because from what you posted, you did not have a secure upbringing...

I agree tbh. Im kind of iffy on whether that person was in the wrong Im ngl. For me my first thought was that if you make a commitment with someone you should either honor it or tell them you cant do it instead of just ghosting. Every once in a while is nbd (especially if it isnt anything...

This happened to me when I got serotonin syndrome. Because I have FND and PTSD I assumed it was psychological. My symptoms were so severe that I broke a couple of cups by jerking so hard that I threw them across the room. I was like la de daaaaa, lol.

I agree with this but I also agree with @Rose White that friend in OP'S example is in the wrong because they made a plan to have a video call at an inconvenient time for the OP which was agreed upon and then wound up not doing it. That being said I don't consider these things a big deal at all...

I'm not sure if this is what you landed on but essentially - much like dissociation, FND can manifest a broad range of symptoms pretty much anywhere in your body. Usually those parts are localized (my old therapist WJ used to say my hands froze up and hurt because my body remembers firing a gun...

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Primarily that they both produce global neurological symptoms and that they are both associated with experiences of trauma. They can overlap in symptoms but FND is more invasive than dissociation and causes more concrete, stable symptoms.

I have a cortical visual impairment which means I cannot read hand writing almost at all. It looks like gibberish to me and I can't write very well either. I misspell stuff, write things backwards or illegible etc. I do however type 128 words per minute. I learned to type and read before my...

FND used to be known as Conversion Disorder, which is why a lot of people haven't heard of it. They changed the name because it used to imply that we were making it up in our heads, but now there is clear evidence that it results from structural anatomical changes to the white matter in our...

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Today I just can't get on the bus to drive 45 mins for new vape juice while ma isn't feeling good.

Mine is quite a bit more than this - I have a cortical visual impairment. It impacts my iconic (visualization) memory but also my vision on a regular basis. My brain doesn't interpret the visual signals correctly and I will skip, miss, delete or mistake one thing for another very often!

Star Trek XI. Lady in the Water. Legally Blonde. Shawshank Redemption. Changeling (2008). Palm Springs. Apocalypto. Full Metal Jacket. Kill Bill. Contagion. Titanic. Borat. I could go on but I'll just throw those out there.

Super into Medieval Dynasty, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Shadowrun: Dragonfall. Highly recommend 'em all.

The way I see it, trauma is not necessary for character building. Human beings are naturally very intelligent and resourceful, and all of the life lessons that we learn through trauma could be learned in appropriate and nurturing environments just as well. Trauma is just trauma. There's no...

I think there needs to be a balance when it comes to prepping. The most important prep is psychological and communal. If you are constantly bombarding your household with yelling about the end of the world, that makes everyone tense and on-edge. If you are obsessed to the point that you lose...

I'm in the same exact boat. 100% understand. Not only that but MDMA is an amphetamine and a stimulant and after being given crack and coke and PCP as a kid I refuse to touch anything stronger than caffeine. It's made treating ADHD a challenge!

I get it. For me, I would look at it from the perspective that this child will eventually grow into an adult. And I think that most adults would agree that they understand that they would have to be removed from a situation where someone is repeatedly abusing both their mom and themselves. And...

No. Shouting, screaming, blaming, insulting, breaking things and physically intimidating others is abusive behavior. Whether he means it or not, loves you or not, is irrelevant. Humans are messy and random and chaotic. People can be genuinely kind and also genuinely abusive. They may have true...

When I melt down it is external (anger, violence, loss of composure). When I shut down I go internal (catatonia, avolition, immobility). For me, my meltdowns are related to PTSD, while my shutdowns are more related to SZPD. I do have the occasional dissociative episode where I zone out or lose...

During the course of my childhood I was indoctrinated into an armed group. I mention this because the methods that my traffickers used to purposefully destroy my normal social and analytical framework were designed to induce extreme aggression and violence in response to conflict and anger. The...