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There's nothing like the smell of a book. I'm not being facetious with that one, I do that too. OCD is related to Tourettes too - which involves a lot of involuntary sounds and movement. I'm not saying that you have that, that's just something to consider. I don't know how to classify the...

I haven't really spoken to many people outside of my family about my trauma, but since my trauma involved my parents (not abuse) it is impossible for us to really talk about it calmly, or without flat out denial. The worst is when my dad resorts to the "How many of your friends" argument like...

Isn't that what Rafiki the mandrill does to Simba in The Lion King? Except he does it just to prove Simba can't do anything about it.

Well if you're only on 25 mg, you can disregard pretty much everything I said.

Do not just ditch the lamotrigine because you are feeling weird on it. If you want to go off of it, you need to titrate as slowly as you went up on it - i.e. very slowly. I think of it as sort of the bricks or mortar that keep my mind's structure in place. If I go lower, my mind is likely to...

I"m disappointed a lot when I call those numbers. The person who answers seems so matter of fact, like "okay, you called me: tell me your problem right off the bat.' It can be awkward without a person who is engaging, but I don't think many are trained to be a source of comprehensive help...

@J_trustno1 It sounds like your mother is unstable and uncomfortable with the subject of abuse. I won't get into my experiences with psych wards, because it probably won't help you or me, but sadly they are a route sometimes for family members to push the people they don't understand, or think...

Mostly I feel just like writing a lot of angry stuff on facebook, but I've tried to back off a little. I think its part of a deeper coping mechanism when I am feeling angry and anxious: get outraged by a news story, and funnel the anxiety and anger I'm feeling into an issue that gives me...

I'm a male, who has had many close female friends in the past and it is a bit frustrating for me that two of those friends are in the mental health field, one is a therapist - and I feel like they are the last people I can turn to with my mental issues. The one friend who is a therapist I feel...

I woke up this morning to the AZ republic headline "Botched" Execution: Prisoner takes Two Hours to die, and pretty much ever since then I have been on edge. I've been angry and anxious and just sick, and I just can't get shut of it. A little background: I was thrown into hospital ER's on...

Well they are here and there for most of the day, so I don't spend much time with them to begin with. My dad is studying to start an insurance job in the next couple of weeks, after being unemployed for a year, and my mom finds an excuse to run a lot of errands and meet up with friends. So if...

It is hard for me to get to another place on a short notice. Which is probably why I should prepare for awhile in advance. But I just don't. I could try to explain all the logistics, but basically if I go somewhere else I need to be able to deal with my pain while I'm there (which includes...

My mom has been out of town for over a week helping my sister. It has been a god send really because I have so much hatred and rage that living around her i am always afraid of being triggered and losing control. So most of the time I feel the anger inside me, and when it really boils up I...

Yes I live with my parents, and I can't really get much distance from them at all when I'm in a rage - or at other times, because I don't have my drivers license active right now. It all goes back to when I was first in the state's involuntary mental health system, and was looking pretty...

My health is sinking fast. And at the same time my rage at my parents continues to grow. Partly because they managed to f*ck up my health 99% when they threw me to the bottom of this states mental health cage. And because they gave me PTSD in doing so. And my mom, the one who was guilty of...

Well I appreciate the input, but unfortunately it just underscores what has been my thought process all along. I know the hospital is a horrible choice. Just thinking about it is more traumatic than I can concentrate on for any period of time. But that just makes me more suicidal. If I...

I have been suicidal for over a year. But every time I think about it, the verbal part of me almost automatically shuts up. I have spent far too much time in terrifying hospitals or 'mental health' hospitals, and have too much trauma of it for me to openly discuss what I'm thinking, because...

They definitely make things a little easier. When I try to go down on them, I find I'm more easily emotionally aroused, or when my flashbacks happen they feel more real. But Therapy is supposed to help a lot more, according to everyone here. And no, there aren't really major side effects on...

I have been on a similar combination for years. In fact I was put on seroquel in 2002 at 50 mg. All I can say right off the bat is that it will probably help a little, but its certainly no cure-all. Lexapro is a pure serotonin re-uptake inhibitor. Personally, I didn't like it because it...

Well I don't want to rule anything out for you, but as far as I know abilify can make you pretty restless and increase insomnia at first, but I guess as you go up to a higher dose it tends to go away. That's just my understanding and very brief experience with it. So I am with candleflames...

I find myself doing this around my dad whenever I'm in the car with him. I know he is bearing most of the stress in our house and if he turns against me I will feel like I am completely abandoned/ lose my shit. So I notice that I try to bring up anecdotes or interesting facts I learned just to...

I don't know much about this, but it seemed to be covered in this site I came across: (Well google Pete Walker Therapist Codependency because this site is being a bitch and won't let me post a link) Without help in the moment, the client typically remains lost in the flashback and has no...

Each day its getting harder to live in the same house as my mom. I'm not feeling that great to begin with, but every time she comes home I get paralyzed. I feel an immediate sense of anger, and then I just try to distract myself from that feeling - even though I have important things like...

I didn't read all of that, but I have a similar experience. I got really sick in 2009. Extremely sick. The one thing that helped was all the knowledge of nutritional and herbal medicine I had acquired. I really thought that was going to be my life's calling. But my parents were always...

My parents can financially support me if I were to decide on an apartment. It just seems like a huge leap for me (I've never lived in an apartment or outside of home). I mean its literally across the street that I could live, but something in my mind can't make that leap. I would do anything...