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I love both cats and dogs (granted, I love *all* animals with the exception of maybe spiders and arthropods 😅 ) and for me the two absolutely complement each other. Like you, I'm terribly missing being able to bring my animal with me and I've been very impatiently waiting to bring a dog back...

I posted something along the lines how cats are consistently under-appreciated as therapy animals some place in the forum quite a long while ago. Because every single thing you wrote is true (including the benefits of going to volunteer at a shelter which is sooo beneficial for both sides). The...

WOW! Happy belated Birthday!!! 😍🥳🥳🥳 What an honor to reach such an age (we "only" made it to 18'ish and I'm still grateful for it). To much more time and many many purrs!

Nope. But also didn’t spend a whole lot of time looking/vetting.

Not that I'm in any way qualified talking about this, but wanting to add a behavioral ecologist's/biologist's angle to this. Infants and toddlers are very very similar to social animals (think higher mammals). They may not yet understand abstract concepts and lack a theory of mind ("since a...

It's Fat Bear Week y'all! https://explore.org/fat-bear-week

I've been giving our younger cat some controlled yard time, mostly for confidence building. I just couldn't resist... 😅🤣🙈

What I find particularly difficult with this is that you can't really talk about this topic and your fears with anyone. Doctors tend to be dismissive and otherwise it's generally considered very inconsiderate to actual sufferers. There's also an immense amount of shame associated because...

It's a weird paradox and just really showcases how messed up anxiety brain really is. If you have someting? "Normal" people would try to get it treated ASAP for improved chances of healing. Aka, if they're suspicious of something, they'd go seek help sooner rather than later. Anxiety people...

I have this massively. It's part of the 'sense of forshortened future' that is a common symptom for people with PTSD. As Corax has pointed out, it also shows up in other disorders such as GAD (and can be it's own full disorder as Illness Anxiety Disorder, aka hypochondrias). I don't so much...

Source: Screenshot from Windy.com (hope that's ok) I'm actually slightly amused 😝

Taking a seat next to Chrissy and also watching this thread, because been on and off been wondering about that myself. Because I still haven't figured out whether I dissociate or not. I know I definitely don't dissociate matching all the descriptions you always read with loosing time, being...

Do you believe the earth is round (because someone has told you so)? Or do you "know" the earth is round based on your own observation/factual evidence (that's been replicated again and again)? Do you believe there is gravity (because someone has told you so)? Or do you "know" there is gravity...

And this right there is part of the major problem in the entire discussion of religion/anti-religion, science-denial etc. One does not believe in science. You trust science. But it has nothing zero nada to do with 'belief'. Yes, some science is still in the 'theory' phase. We may not yet have...

These kind of threads always seem to backfire .... I'd even go further and say: we're seeing a little bit of psychological self-harm at play. Consider who's asking. Consider their history of doubting their diagnosis. Including very recently bei their treatment team. Keep in mind that pretty...

Well, we're still here, if you need us :)

Could we - privately- nominate someone and they could be approached by you to make them at least have a think on it? Considering we’re in a PTSD forum where many suffer from low self esteem and imposter syndrome, I think many might not even consider it because they don’t think they’d be up to...

I'm following someone on social media who recently (as in: a few months ago) had started Ketamine treatment for severe depression and cPTSD and from what I gathered they reporded promising results. Keeping my fingers crossed for you @joeylittle and interested in the journey (I'm not in need of...

No it isn't. It's just the most stereotypical one and the one that's most commonly used in movies and such to portrait PTSD. Then they're crappy psychiatrists and I'm sorry you've seen such - same with your's who bases his doubt solely on the fact that EMDR didn't work...

And unfortunately more often than not do you have to go through a few crappy ones, first. @blackemerald1 any option to ask around what vet other people recommend?

I'm really really sorry this has happened, like others, had not seen this coming and was so happy for you. But... can you print this ^^^ out our write it on a post-it and put somewhere you'll see it often? I know it's really hard to believe right now - I've been in that place multiple times...

OF COURSE the clouds moved in right when we were about to hit full blood moon 🤦🏻‍♀️ I also haven’t touched my camera in so long I made some serious rookie mistakes and I’m beating myself up for it a little bit. Gonna sort through the pictures tomorrow aka after I got at least some sleep into my...

also, VERY much this!!! I think our last one was at what? 3 am’ish? 4 am’ish? No way I’m gonna get up for that. 1 am? That I can do… almost to the point of just staying awake 😂 (if only I wasn’t so exhausted, but my vyvanse is also kinda kicking my butt today… 11pm and been trying to get some...

Already on it 🙃 (testing settings)

Read again. In fact, re-read the entire thread. Spanking in and of itself is not traumatic. Being bare-butted as a child in and of itself is not traumatic. Spanking and/or stripping naked in the context of other ongoing abuse, dysregulated family life, ... may very well be. Spanking, being...