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After an extremely stressful year or so, I'm finally getting back to the things that make me feel capable. I have been using my audible subscription to compensate for not having as much time to read, and I'm making time each week to read a book on paper, too. I bought a charger for my mp3...

I had a panic attack today in the parking lot at Target. I was alone in the car, waiting for my husband. About two hours ago he apologized for yelling at me and I said that I had forgotten that he yelled at me. I remembered when he brought it up, though. He yelled at me and then went into...

I'm a pretty small person. I'm 5'2" with small shoulders, feet, and apparently, small fingers. It's hard sometimes to to take up space, and harder still to accept the vulnerability inherent in being small. I feel like I have to take up space so people won't walk on me. The whole, "dynamite comes...

This might be an odd question for this thread, but does anyone else find that allergy medications make anxiety worse? It's been a few times now that I've taken half a Zyrtec and not only does it still knock me on my ass, but I wake up from these involuntary naps several times in a complete...

I start a new job on Monday (YAY), but I'm starting to have serious anxiety about it. I'll be working with people with developmental disabilities, and sometimes (especially the men) have poor boundaries around attractive women. Yes, I'm pretty. I'm worried about triggers. It's always made me a...

My partner and I went to church last Sunday and as soon as we got in and sat down I started panicking. My legs were shaking and my breathing was heavy and I couldn't say a thing. We stood for the first hymn--we usually share a hymnal--and I dropped my half after barely mustering the first few...

My partner's kids have been visiting us for the past two weeks.They're funny, smart, and thoughtful, and also loud (trigger). Mostly it's been good, and my partner has been understanding about when I need to just go hide somewhere quiet for a while. Something came up in the car the other day...

At work today one of my managers was testing the sound system for tonight (Karaoke night, huzzah I don't work), and it was super loud, and the regular jukebox music was still on, and the fans were humming, and the people were chatting, and the plates were clanking, and I thought my head was...

Does every man have bouts of toxic rage, or do I just know how to pick them? This morning seriously blindsided me. I got out of work at one in the morning (in a bar), so the plan was for me to sleep in. I wake up at seven thirty to him screaming at our puppy because he had diarrhea on the...

I'm working two crappy jobs right now as a waitress--restaurants are perhaps the most dysfunctional, abusive working environments in existence. I'm looking for employment in another state that actually uses the degree I just earned, but seriously why would an obscure small town in Colorado take...

What are some ways you explain dissociation/depersonalization/derealization to an intimate partner? I had a depersonalization episode yesterday, and a weird one. I was looking at houses online because we may or may not be moving to another state soon. He (my partner) sent me some links to check...