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Yes. I have had periods of being better at assertiveness but it is a real struggle and something that takes practice I think.

Wow, I wasn't expecting so many replies! It's honestly a relief to me I'm not the only one! Also, since this first post I have got and lost not one but two jobs! I started a new job yesterday and I am crossing my damn fingers I can keep it. Low stress job would be ideal just haven't found that...

I guess it is true the more deeper into unwellness we get the harder it is to climb out of. I needed to hear that tonight thank you. (Eating disorder relapse means my brain is not functioning as well as it should be. Unfortunately ED brain wants me to avoid the ED ward at any cost, even if that...

I'm wondering if anyone has been hospitalized for their ptsd? and what your experience was like and if it helped at all? A few weeks ago I was involuntary committed for a week and after coming out symptoms have escalated / things seem almost worst in certain aspects in my life? It doesn't make...

Puppy Dogs!!! :)

only occasionally will I "lose time" and very rarely end up in places. usually I am aware when things begin to get "fuzzy,"it feels like I'm losing touch with the reality in front of me. but when people speak to me it is very very far away as if I'm at the bottom of a very very deep empty...

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actually, just delete this post, this was utterly and completely my own doing. goodbye.

I wasn't drinking when my anxiety was up, it was a fantastic day, a fantastic night with people at the time I considered friends. When I denied dudes offer in the evening he told me he would leave, (by this point I had had a stupid amount to drink but still), I didn't even REALIZE he was still...

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when an entire day happens and suddenly it's the next day but if someone asked you what you did all day you couldn't really answer

"stop trying to change my negative distorted thinking it's making me uncomfortable !!!! stop CBT-ing me I see what you're doing!!!!!" "how bout you pour your life story out to ME for once !"

I don't do EDMR but I was seeing her bi-weekly then things got a bit worse for me so now I'm seeing T weekly.

Nope, I also don't believe in "fate" or that "everything happens for a reason." I tend to laugh at overly positive ideals like that. The people who think that are also the same who probably think that "thinking positive, happy rainbow sunshine thoughts" can cure mental illnesses. It's...

clinical depression, anxiety, anorexia b/p subtype (< though not currently), ADHD.... and most recently : " borderline " "attachment disorder" <<both of which I don't believe to be true at ALL ! haha. the whole concept of ptsd has been relatively new to me. i've been in the mental health...

after a really bad week, and weeks of not being able to clean my house because of depressive symptoms, today I went to the laundromat and cleaned my room so theres no piles of things on the ground ! And did my sheets! feeling so content about this its amazing how a change in my environment...

You're getting good grades in college and you're pretty good at academic writing. You need to try and not be so angry with yourself when you don't get an A+ though, show yourself some more compassion and realize that it's okay not to be perfect all the time. You're also a talented artist and a...

people do the same to me ! I wonder why that is.. why smokes help breathing so much ? it seems so counter-productive but they really do help. I wonder if it's the rush of nicotine or just the act of inhaling something and then having to exhale it.. not sure. would it be possible if you started...

I'm a smoker too. Sometimes a smoke after a panic attack is the only thing that will get my breathing going again. I've heard of these herbal cigarettes that don't have nicotine in them (I haven't actually tried them yet) and you order them online and apparently they're really healthy for you...

Like others have said, there has been research done on inter-generational trauma. I don't think from what I've read that it equates to having ptsd specifically, though. I went to a talk on it once and the guy who had written a book on it basically said that negative core-beliefs are passed down...

didnt cry today ! went to my classes !

sorry if this thread has been made before or if it's a really obvious or stupid question.. .. is the only discerning difference between a panic attack and emotional flashback or flooding where one is triggered by a trauma reaction vs panic that comes out of the blue with no specific cause?? Or...

thanks for all these great answers!!

Medusa