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I used to get black out drunk in order to cope with situations that had a risk of sexual activity, and it resulted in getting date raped a couple of times. I didn't understand at the time how consent worked and someone much older took advantage of that. In recent years I've been able to have...

Yeah, you have to sift through a lot of bullshit and predatory con artists.

Those people who went through worse? Are looking at those who went through worse than them, telling themselves to just get over it.

Psilocybin has more potential IMO than MDMA. MDMA has a long laundry list of adverse effects and some of them can be permanent as it's a stimulant and an amphetamine. I've long been a vocal opponent of these drugs even MDMA which can cause dental damage due to bruxism, dermatillonania...

The comments you are receiving here aren't personal attacks. What you endured was painful and horrible. It shouldn't have happened. But, trauma is not synonymous with PTSD. PTSD is a disorder, it does not occur just because you have trauma. Emotional abuse is indeed incredibly damaging...

It will get better. You will feel peaceful sometimes. You will improve your connection with your mom. You have a lot of regrets about things that ultimately don't matter. Job, school, etc. And some that do matter -- like the harm you've caused to others. But you'll learn to exist with it. You...

Persona 3 Reload. I finished Persona 5, Strikers, Soul Hackers 2, and Persona 4. Super into Shin Megami Tensei/Devil Summoner shit lately for some reason. Also, Dredge and Dark Rose Valkyrie.

Yes, from their colleagues.

40% (up to full-blown 90%) of nurses face bullying behavior at work , stats for teachers / not comprehensive , 47% of therapists in one study , etc. This is just on the most cursory of Google searches, I am sure if you dove into it you would find the rates are much higher. Anecdotally speaking...

Typically no. Not anyone. There is a specific forensic profile for offenders of this type. If a person doesn't meet those criteria it's unlikely they will offend. That being said, the type of person most commonly attracted to wealth and power? Has many of those markers. Look at rates of bullying...

I agree this sounds more like numbing. I have an absence of emotions and the statement "I'm not done grieving XYZ" just literally doesn't compute for me. When I was 12 I lost my grandfather and I remember hiding in the closet trying to force myself to cry so that people wouldn't be disturbed by...

It's not something that was news to me. The entertainment industry as a whole is exceptionally exploitative. I am pleased that it's becoming more mainstream to talk about. Hopefully in the future, power and prestige will cease to be an insulation against justice. I've been following the Epstein...

Not very, my ability to form memories during these periods are impaired because my cognitive processing is diminished. I do retain some general awareness after the fact, mostly because I can go back and read the shit I've texted in my nonsense-incoherent state and re-trace my steps through...

I have PTSD with Secondary Psychosis and schizoid. When I am psychotic, I am still me. I am just me in a psychotic episode. All I am is my brain, and my brain is sometimes psychotic and sometimes not. The question you appear to be asking is whether such a person should be held responsible for...

Done, hope it helps!

I also think it might be relevant to understand forgiveness with the added complexity of pity vs sympathy vs empathy. I use the term pity here very specifically, as in the real definition of the term, which implies a sense of judgment as well: I judge them for being abusive, I regret that they...

Agreed, this should really be reserved for after both the victim and perpetrator have had plenty of their own therapy and the perpetrator is capable of remaining accountable which it is clear based on your dad's response he is not. It should also ideally be conducted by a neutral party, which...

This is not the case, at least for me. I would never wish to speak to any of my abusers again. There are caveats to this (not that I would be comfortable or fine, but I would be willing to engage in very specific ways), but I don't think my abusers would ever meet them. But hey, stranger things...

Whew, good thing I'm functionally illiterate in Hebrew! Hah. I have a TBI that makes learning these systems extremely difficult, bordering on impossible. What helped me was taking each letter, making it really BIG, like on a whole ass piece of paper, then using haptic feedback to clue my brain...

Some songs from my new playlist 8D

Yes, I have an unnatural affinity for languages (I can become fully conversational in a language in like 4 months), so I have loads of them on my Duolingo. Unfortunately I'm still subject to the 'use it or lose it' part of languages so all the ones I've become conversational in, if I haven't...

Schizoid and autism are very difficult for clinicians to separate, especially if your symptoms started in childhood. I developed RAD by the time I had conscious memory recollection, and was misdiagnosed as NVLD, which is a sort of "autism-lite" that existed back then. Doctors told my mom at age...

You're allowed to have whatever boundaries you want, but boundaries are how you control your behavior. They can't control another person's behavior. If your sister talks about weight in a way that doesn't work for you, then it's up to you to exit the conversation. "If you keep talking like...

Keep in mind that it's also exceedingly likely he's lying about not being able to remember. If he's already abusive, lying isn't exactly out of the question. The fact that he doesn't deny it, but claims not to "remember" is telling. If someone accused me of abusing them, I would say that...

An addendum to what I said above, but with respect to what you and @Friday said, I do think killing certain people is a separate, worthwhile discussion. I've known sadistic pedophiles, human traffickers, people who train kids to kill and rape etc. Who simply aren't capable of existing safely...