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    Paranoia - How Do You Cope With It?

    ok, im not too bad with it most of the time but sometimes it sneaks up on you unaware and you can become a bit paranoid about things, sometimes about the simplest of things, sometimes about safety sometimes about a lot of things, so how do you deal with it? i try to take an objective view and...
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    Feeling Out Of Sorts - Bad Nightmares

    grab an ice cube, its a tough one to overcome, but it can be done, just remeber not to let yourself go back again to where you were, not much advice as im not at the best myself, but do take care
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    Finishing Projects For The Move

    looks good
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    Guns in America

    have been reading the news, looking at comments on different sites and things, this isnt strictly related to american gun laws or culture,and isnt related to anyone here, but there are some good points to look at. 1, a lot of people got killed for no reason which is sad and quite wrong 2...
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    Guns in America

    ok i can see both sides of this, will say first im in the uk and do know about things which go bang, in the us it is related partly to history and partly to culture, guns are not seen as bad people are seen as bad, in the uk the view has been taken that all guns are bad and people arent, now if...
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    Hobbies and a Motorbike

    crochet blankets are cool, they do take a long time to do, i did a patchwork one a few years ago using up some bits of material, cant remeber what happened to it though, i do a fair amount of sewing, yip a man who can sew and make clothes and things, im multi talented :wink: , i make a lot of...
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    Hobbies and a Motorbike

    i got to play with my bike on the weekend, i find working on a restoration keeps me busy it gives my hands and mind something to do, something which is fairly straight forward most of the time and not too stressful, a hobby, restoring a bike gives me a chance to spend time thinking about...
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    List Your Joke, Funny Caption To Brighten Ptsd

    maths a young boy is doing his maths homework, his mother listens to him counting and doing his sums, the boy counts, two plus two this son of a bitch is four three plus three this son of a bitch is six his mother angered walks in and asks him where he learnt that sort of language from the...
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    Coping With New Difficulties

    yip, was going along fine and had a big mess land in my lap recently, it can be trying in life when things happen, have had a lot of bad news in march, will be glad when its april, but life unfortunately has a way of cropping things up at times and its a bit of a testing period but we have to...
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    Confused About How To Deal With Things - Memory Recall

    i think you must have met the same psychiatrists i did, pills and potions. what way do you feel works for you what method do you feel brings the best long term results? looking at things and analysing them and going over them can be a painful and sometimes hard thing to do but it allows you...
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    How's Your Day Been? Each Day is Different, So Make Your Mark Daily

    try one of those gum guards the sporty types use, should stop the grinding and it has a little bit to stop the tongue getting between the teeth,
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    Motorcycle Crash 1st This Year

    take it easy for a while, sounds like youve had a serious knock there, do make sure you get checked out again later, hope you feel better soon
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    Basic Assumptions - What is Normal?

    yes normal is totally a town in illinois, but does the average psychologist/iatrist know that. they seem to have been some of the strangest people i have met, and they unfortunately set the standard for what is normal depending on what they think is normal, met one once and he asked what i...
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    Basic Assumptions - What is Normal?

    shared experiences form a normality is one way of putting it, ok a thought, the ''norm'' here is we have been hurt in various ways and try to move forward and understand ourselves and the way we deal with the world, that is normal here, in the ''outside'' world normal could be viewed as bad...
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    Basic Assumptions - What is Normal?

    been thinking on assumptions of ''normal'' and what it means to people, so its a bit long,and has some poop examples in, but it is a thought, maybe others have a few thoughts on this, what is ''normal'' experience of life. one problem i had when dealing with psychologists/iatrists and...
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    Acceptance Of Good Points!

    its too easy just to listen to the bad things we tell ourselves, and what we expect from the world, if we think good things then maybe we will become unguarded, so are always looking for the boot from a compliment, taking a compliment is a hard thing sometimes, but worth trying,
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    Memory Loss - Forgetting Movies Watched

    im terrible at remembering names and film titles and things, people ask me if ive seen xxxxx and all i can say is maybe what was in it? sometimes i will watch a film and remember ive seen it before about half way through, my memory is a bit shot at times,
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    Acceptance Of Good Points!

    hearing nice things can be hard at times, but it is worth struggling through and learning to accept them , but fluffy bunny:biggrin: that one may be true but still fluffy bunny.
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    Tantrum - Been Hell To Be Around Last Two Days

    should of said, only when dealing with you. one of the greatest annoyances i ever had was dealing with mental health services, most of all secretaries who try to shift you around and cant be bothered. drove me mad dealing with them, which is exactly the opposite of what they are supposed to be...
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    Acceptance Of Good Points!

    ok have been thinking on this for a while but something said to me yesterday has got me thinking, learning to accept that people care about you and that they see the good in you is something which is a challenge at times, it can relate to our self image and how we project ourselves into the...
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    Happy Vernal / Autumnal Equinox

    well days are getting longer here, means more sunlight and i become less of a grouch as i get to sit in the sun, had a nice day today sun shining, bees buzzing around clear skies, looks like frost tonight but at least the days are getting longer again.
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    What Is Your Favourite Movie?

    any film with jean reno in, indiana jones films go down well, me being an archaeologist, havent seen any films in ages as havent had a tv for ages so not up to date with stuff, i like a lot of black and white films, also like b movies such as ed wood, bella lugosi, as they are quite amusing...
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    Confronting Fear of Rejection

    there is nothing silly or illogical about what you have said, the fear of rejection is the greatest thing that holds people back in life, ive posted things or said things which ive wanted to undo at times, been guarded and not let my self show through, the fear of rejection is something which...
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    Learning and Hobbies - Where Do You Stand?

    someone said something to me which i started to think about, its something which may be useful so i thought i would see what people think. i left school went into work and all the things of the world, learnt trades and stuff the hard way, i found that doing a short course or even a distance...
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    I Got Angry This Morning

    no worries if you dont want to talk, as long as you feel its been resolved thats a good thing
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