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    Difficulties with crying

    I mostly feel numb, but I do from time to time feel angry. But I find that I am not really angry at them, so much as I am angry with myself for repeatedly putting myself in situations like that where those things can happen to me. I occasionally would be angry at them, and then when I notice, I...
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    What will happen if I tell my therapist I feel suicidal?

    I guess it might be good to talk about what it is that stops you from doing it when you do have these thoughts and feelings. Also, I often would say that I can easily come up with ways to do it, after all I've done it before. But still I have not decided on one specific way as my plan. For...
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    What will happen if I tell my therapist I feel suicidal?

    For me, I found that describing exactly how I've been thinking and feeling about suicide was helpful. Like for me, I would make clear to them the difference between me feeling suicidal like I cannot go on anymore and me actually having the intention of committing suicide. Thinking that you are...
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    Cymbalta - Can You Share Info On The Side Effects You’ve Experienced?

    I was prescribed Cymbalta for pain from Fibromyalgia. When I took it, I got one of the more rare side effects. I ended up hallucinating, with a fever, and my blood pressure got seriously low. Luckily, I went to the hospital before anything more serious happened. but they said that normally that...
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    General Constipation, having to spend lots of time in the bathroom

    For me, I would take Ducolax if it's really bad. But normally, whenever I go, I use a stool to help with the flow. I read it online, that if you sit with ur feet raised on a stool, just a little stepping stool like what a kid would use to reach the sink, it helps with the flow, and I find that...
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    Having sex for comparison

    I do try that, and it's like you said, I begin to feel flashbacks coming. That's why I've decided that it wouldn't make sense to even try to have a relationship with someone because I just have too many problems. Plus I wouldn't want to burden someone with all my problems because it wouldn't be...
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    Is it common for someone who was abused to become an abuser?

    This is actually something I wonder about myself, so I did some googling and this was what I found Sad Legacy Of Abuse: The Search For Remedies Do Sexually Abused Kids Become Abusers? From what I read, it seems like it's not as common as people make it out to be, but I'll leave you to read it...
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    Having sex for comparison

    For me, I find that I go through phases where I want to self harm, but I can't do it in the typical ways because my parents look out for those marks and bruises because they worry if I might do anything dangerous again. However, all it has done is make me come come up with new ways. I can't...
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    Having sex for comparison

    It's really comforting to hear that I'm not the only one. It makes me feel less alien if that makes sense.
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    Having sex for comparison

    I was thinking about getting drunk first to help me relax, but I just don't know how it will react with my medication, so I don't think it would be a good idea.
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    Having sex for comparison

    A couple weeks ago some of my friends were talking about sex and more specifically about the first time they had sex and lost their virginities. I felt really left out of the conversation because I had no clue what they were talking about. I never experienced it the way they did. I know my...
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    Difficulties with crying

    Yeah I'll definitely get that looked at. Thanks.
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    Difficulties with crying

    Yeah, I feel like I'm just always angry. Just stuck there. Thanks guys. It feels better to know that it's not just me. ?
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    Difficulties with crying

    I’m glad to know it can help. I just feel like it’s all trapped inside. I’ve been wanting to tell my therapist for a while but I just feel like she might think I’m heartless. I stopped crying when I realized how useless it was and I thought it was just pathetic for me to cry. But now I kinda...
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    Difficulties with crying

    It's not that I enjoy crying, but I just don't remember doing it that much, like maybe 5 times or so. But I just feel like it would help, or at least im hoping it would help, I don't know. It's just that I haven't tried it and I heard that crying is cathartic and makes you feel better after.
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    Difficulties with crying

    Hi. I don't know why but I don't cry. I mean I really can't cry. This makes it hard for me because sometimes I really want to cry and I can't, which doesn't sound like a problem, except it just makes me feel even more stuck because I can't even get my tears out. No matter what I do it just won't...
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    I don't know what to do

    Thank you so much Dead Link Removed for this. It is really helpful. It's just so hard to think about having to take a picture so thank you.
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    I don't know what to do

    Hi. I didn't know what to make the topic. I'm sure I am just making a bigger deal out of this as I always do, but I have a problem. I won this competition at university for free textbooks which is good. The problem is I have to take a picture for the school website to collect my prize, which...
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    Your Day In Emoticons

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    What Do You See and Feel When You Look in the Mirror?

    I also avoid mirrors. I don't like what I see because I feel like I'm not looking at myself. its hard to explain but it is like I know cognitively that that is me and it's my reflection but I also feel that it isn't me. A big part of it for me is that I don't even know who I am because I pretend...
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    Keeping tabs on abuser

    Thank you guys for responding. It really helps knowing that I’m not going crazy when I keep doing this. I know it’s unhealthy but I just can’t seem to stop it. It’s like I have to know in order to keep me sane. Thanks
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    Keeping tabs on abuser

    I wasn't sure where to post this but anyway.... I have this thing where sometimes I feel I have to know where my abuser is. I don't know why I do it really, I just want to know physically where he is compared to where I am. Sometimes I don't have a reason other than I just want to know. I don't...
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    Have any other rape/assault and sexual abuse victims used risky sex to self harm?

    I do it to. I try to stop it and I know I should but then I feel so bad and I think I don't deserve to feel this good and I should feel worse so I do it. I find guys who I absolutely dislike and that I know will treat me badly and then I do whatever they want.
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    Movie for making you happy.

    This isn't really an emotional movie but I watch this movie whenever I want cheer myself up. It is called The Proposal. It's a comedy. I don't know if that is what your looking for.
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    Sufferers: Why can you act 'normal' around others but not those most important to you? What should supporters do?

    For me, I find I pretend a lot, so much so that I am not really sure who I am in the sense that I don't know which part of what I'm doing is real and which part is an act, because I have been doing this all my life. That said, I find it easier to pretend around strangers than around family and...
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