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Riddikulus! The angry red face turns into a balloon featured in the Airheads candy commercials and floats away. The boggart appears before me as a short-haired Asian man who likes torturing special kids.

Specifically: -Expecto Patronum (shown in third and fifth movies) against dementors -Occlumency, used to shut the mind off from unwanted mental intruders (introduced in fifth movie)

@anthony Thank you. It does.

I'll try asking her directly about her approach this Saturday. She also works with drug addicts, if anyone's curious.

So are we in the process of selecting July's book, or are we still going with June's?

I asked my T why she never discussed my bad memories. I don't remember what reason she gave, but somehow, the conversation led to those very memories. She added that some of these memories had to do with some of the guilt I've held onto. This week, she's advised me to write a letter to myself...

Like this memory's so awful, your brain blocked it out of your conscious mind until now. But now that you've remembered it, you're afraid to lose it again. Is it natural for one to try to relive the memory in question so as to not forget? Especially for me, losing memories is scary. I remember...

I don't know about her beliefs about these memories. From my meetings with her, she is of mindset that "the root of the problem is in its symptoms," and she tells me to control these symptoms. I don't know her current partisan on my memories or whether she plans to talk about them. I might ask...

She was my T three years ago, but it was only two years after that I developed PTSD, and about seven months since we started on it.

Well, the truth is, we've known each other for about three years. But it's only just last year November that we began work on my condition.

I've been bullied chronically in high school, and as a result, have many bad memories. When I started going to sessions with my therapist, we would always talk about keeping the memories under control, to gain power over them. She would sometimes talk about how my day was, irrelevant to my...

Thank you. I think it means that someone as complicated (or as similar) as me is trying to forgive me for some wrongdoings. And that person, Hermione, is someone I relate to in the academics department. So it would be hitting the nail on the head to say that she's me, forgiving me.

The only one on whom I can rely for emotional comfort is my mother. I can talk to her about my memories, but she hardly speaks any English. She says to me in Chinese that she can understand what I'm saying in English, but whenever I ask her to repeat what I said in Chinese, she just nods as if...

When I think about doing that, I feel I'll sound like someone with mental problems (I realize I am). Then those feelings bring up memories of being teased for being in special education. It's terrible. On the upside, I'm so relieved to find that many people have 'liked' my first post and are...

Like if you see something that makes you think about something else, and then that something else reminds you of your trauma. Introverts like me do this all the time, and it's hard to not be triggered when I'm in my head. And it's only when I'm in my head that my train of thought triggers me...

When I apologized, she cried and lunged herself into my arms. It made me feel so good. It made me feel like I was being unconditionally accepted, forgiven for the things I've done. But this was all in a dream. The latter thoughts are my insights on the dream. I think it told me that I have to...

Now I do. I always feel like I'm in stuck in the past, forced to argue with people who've long departed my life. I take in my surroundings---I see it, but I don't actually perceive it, if that makes sense. Like say I'm looking at a clock that has its short arm to 6 and long arm to twelve. When...

I ask because ever since the tramautic events have happened, I've started to notice that I've been making a lot of spelling and grammar mistakes. I often have to double-check what I write. Granted, I've always had to, but I feel like it's more meticulous to check for those mistakes. Maybe it's...

@BloomInWinter I just might do that. But I'll want to consult my therapist about such confrontations first.

@NovemberStar To be frank, this was only one incident where I got sexually harassed. And I haven't talked about this to my therapist. I never thought it would be worthy of discussing. It hardly---if at all---qualifies as sexual abuse. And there are people in the world who have suffered worse...

Probably vandalize my former high school, after all the trouble it's given me. Write "Welcome to Hell" all over the buildings and such...

Me, I enjoyed taking Psychology in college. The subjects the teacher went over really clicked with me. And the teacher wasn't that hard of an instructor. He would assign pages for students to read, and whether they did or not, the teacher would go over the content in class. I also started...

I wholeheartedly agree. I played Final Fantasy XIII once, and it made me too motion-sick to play again. It was then that I decided that I would only go for retro games. And I mainly play Square Enix games nowadays. As for whether my memories get in the way of it, I would say that I get too into...

@EvenStrongerNow Concerning your homornal imbalances related to Risperdal, I share the same problem. My doctor said that my prolactin levels were three times over the normal amount. I'm scheduled with an appointment with my endocrinologist on the 13th. Anyway, if your psychiatrist refuses to...

I was in special education. Everyday, I had to be escorted by a teacher assistant so I "would not ditch class." One of the days he escorted me to a classroom, he teased my obesity by pinching my nipple, blatant over the clothes I was wearing. I tried to tell the special education teachers about...