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And I think it came out really well. There's details I'm not happy with, and but over all, it's pretty good.

Sometimes it can be treated without medicine, and that's fantastic! But everyone's different, and they're not wrong if they need something another person doesn't.

I get this from my parents and siblings, all of whom are pretty hardline pharma bad, medication bad, solve everything naturally. My brother especially, who wants our family to stop poisoning ourselves with psychiatric medication and go on a mystical ancient Indian diet that will improve our...

My wife and I are both sufferers (I'm diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety rather than PTSD, but it's the result of trauma and there's similarities), and my wife is like this: she's more able to fake cheerfulness and good spirits around other people. Once she gets home, she's able to drop the act...

Yup, serving of Major Depressive Disorder along with my GAD, as well. I'm neurologically incapable of traditional visual immersive flashbacks, don't have obvious trauma that meets the criteria, and there's not an obvious connection between my triggers and anything that could potentially meet the...

Anyone else have a Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) diagnosis? That's what my diagnosis is, rather than PTSD. I get bad anxiety any time I'm around crowds of people, dealing with social situations, or around loud or aggressive people or noises. Also have panic attacks, though I don't have a...

I do almost all of these, but don't actually dissociate. I'm just really absent minded.

It was good to have met you the past couple if days. But your family is most important. I know you'll be able to show your daughter how much you love her. Good luck, be safe, to you and your family.

The motives don't matter, Purple. Lots of abuse happens as an attempt to discipline children. It still counts. And lots of abusers are sweet and charming. And lots of kids are difficult. I was difficult, and my son is difficult. My son doesn't "deserve" to be punished for being himself...

I promise you that verbal abuse counts. I promise you that you've describe abuse. Verbal abuse can be just as bad and extreme as other forms of abuse.

You say "that's not abuse" a lot when you describe clear cases of abuse, Purple. What do you consider abuse to be?

Hugs. He should never have joked about that.

I promise you that the second incident was sexual assault. 100%, no ambiguity, that was sexual assault and wasn't your fault. It's horrible they did that to you, and horrible that you were blamed for it. The first memory is much more complicated. As far as you can remember you were lying. But...

I feel emotionally numb a lot, but not necessarily like I'm somewhere else. There's been big events where everyone was like in tears, and I"m wondering why I don't feel anything about it. But that doesn't sound like what you're describing. It sounds really hard, though. I hope you can work it...

That was very nice to read, Friday. Thanks. Good to have some perspective who has dissociation, and can compare it to weird thoughts that things aren't or shouldn't be real. I'm almost certainly overthinking everything: a life-long hobby.

Woohoo! That's a huge victory!

I wanted peoples thoughts as to whether this could have any similarities to dissociation or derealization, or if it's just me having a quirky personality. I'd never really heard of dissociation or derealization until recently, so had always assumed it was my own quirky thought processes. Even as...

I have a pure obsessive friend, and it's possible my son is, as well, though his symptoms subsided after he was given anxiety medicine.

When I'm really upset, I'll sometimes start imagining doing a lot of awful and painful things to myself, over and over, whether just self harm, or suicidal actions. Banging my head against a wall till its a bloody pulp, ripping my skin off, shooting myself in the mouth, stuff like that. I don't...

I don't know, because I don't know what counts as trauma and what doesn't. I don't know what counts as symptoms, and what's just me being depressed, or reacting to the situation at hand. I know when my first conscious panic attack was. But i'd had multiple mental breakdowns before then. I'd had...

That sounds a lot like what happens to me, though in my case it was in adulthood, with my time in the Navy. Not sure that counts for Complex, though.

I don't know, but minus the drinking, it sounds like something that could have happened to me. But it's not something I'd have previously thought could be called a flashback. I'll often have the same emotions flood through me, intensely, as when I was on the ship and going through what I went...

I hope the mediation goes well, and that you can keep your composure. You're awesome and strong, even when you don't feel like it. :hug:

I'd like to read that book, actually. I'd say I'm a normal hybrid, words and imagery, with the small detail that neither has any internal sensory experience. There actually seems to be a significant connection between aphantasia and autism, as it happens. I'm autistic (aspergers), and this seems...

I do have visual dreams, and whether or not I have any flashbacks depends on how strictly you want to define "flashback". And yes, visualization ability is a spectrum. Some people can barely do it at all, others are phenomenally hyperphantasic and can easily create complicated and detailed...