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I'm not sure if this is relative to what you're talking about but for me, because I am a religious person who was raised by an atheist, I have a lot of sympathy for atheism and apostasy. I view my religion as a completely and totally personal thing that isn't anyone's business but mine, and no...

Yeah I agree here cuz if you're passing out? That's showing that there's a problem. Because just not eating enough over a like 24-48 hour period is not enough to cause that, humans can go for long periods without food. This happened because of the meds + exertion, until proven otherwise, IMO...

Yeah, I'd make sure your doctor is on board with this exercise regimen because beta blockers artificially lower your heartrate. Exercising on them causes added stress, which might be why you aren't feeling right. I had to go off them because of this, I couldn't handle that feeling. I was...

With people like this I just close them out of my inner circle. I'm superficial! That's what they prefer, and I don't mind doing that. I deal with all my shit internally, or with inner circle folks. I'd focus on the positives, whatever we have in common, activities we like to do, etc. I would...

Are you a therapist? Do you demonstrate the same level of judgment to your clients that you showed OP?

I find that hedonism and anhedonia go hand-in-hand. I struggle deeply with avolition, literally just doing shit. Emotional responses are just another thing and I don't like things, lmao. I'm a hedonist in the sense that I act to preserve my peace and prioritize my desires before anything else...

If it were me I'd do a debriefing to make sure she was OK and wipe this session from the books. Everything we said and did in that session, boop, doesn't matter. Reschedule the schedules, recount the payment increase etc now that she's in a sober mindstate. I'd extend compassion to her and let...

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It helps to explain their behavior, but it doesn't excuse it. Many of my abusers were also involved in this shit as young children. As a teenager and young child I abused others. Appetitive aggression in children is a documented phenomenon. It doesn't mean we don't have agency for our...

It does, it generates neural transmission relative to sexual, aggression and impulse pathways that has a negative impact on childhood development. But an animal can still suffer. A whale, a dolphin, an octopus, an African Grey, an elephant, these animals even understand higher order concepts...

If you're basing it on what's biologically good or bad, well, ethics isn't biological. There's nothing about ethics that is enforced by any natural laws, people and animals can basically do whatever they want. But we can make an argument that it causes harm, because it impacts a child's...

Legally? You were. Sex trafficking is when money or goods or services changes hands, in the commission of a sex crime.

I'm gonna be real with you here, mind control on the level that you're discussing has no grounding in science whatsoever. Your child as young as five barely has an identity, that is at the very beginning of ordinary development. There could be any number of things genuinely wrong with this...

I mean it's only a boundary violation if he actually expressed this as a boundary beforehand. You can't violate someone's boundaries if the first time they ever tell you about their boundaries is when they lose their shit on someone during an otherwise normal interaction. OP didn't do anything...

Yes, I can. Mine is stress-induced so I usually have fair warning. It starts by being unable to sleep and gets progressively worse until I wind up hospitalized saying nonsense. I'm in a prodromal state right now, actually. Ramped up hallucinations (tactile, auditory), but thus far I can tell...

(Sorry, I didn't see this reply until right now.) Not precisely. I have some awareness, it isn't like being unconscious. It's more like being half-awake, half-asleep. Cognizant enough to move and talk and form some memories, but things get jumbled up and mixed in with nonsense. My memories...

I can't tell if this is a joke or not so apologies hahaha, although I also relate to this! I smoked for years so my sense of smell is gonezo. But aromantic is like a-romantic, meaning "without romance." I only want platonic relationships, not romantic partners.

I am aromantic but in terms of friends/companions: Kindness, gentleness, the "boring" folks, people who are sharp/witty, funny and intelligent (but this honestly isn't something I actively seek. I much rather patient and easygoing folks), and older people (like 3+ generations older). I do also...

Being charming is a social skill, it can be used for good or ill. Just like manipulation, it is neutral. Abusers will use these skills to harm, normal people use them to put others at ease or direct the flow of conversation. You can't accurately predict who will or won't hurt you based on traits...

I'm not going to engage with these questions and comments because of this: I'm not here to harass anybody or violate boundaries. This will be my last reply to you as you have clearly indicated you do not wish to speak with me.

Given the pervasiveness of these statements it very much sounds like you would benefit from behavioral maganement and distress tolerance techniques. If every single person around you everywhere you go is terrible, the likelihood that this is objective is very low. More than likely it's an...

Absolutely, you got it in one.

There are huge systemic issues at play, here. Not all people will have trauma as a result of it or have experiences like this, but it's widely known, with data to back it up, that women are more likely to be mistreated by doctors and subjected to medical malpractice, not listened to, not taken...

I should add I used the wrong word here, I meant to say stammering. Yammering definitely has a less respectful connotation 😓