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'Broken record." Yes, that is the succinct way to put it. :)
It's an actual classroom control method taught in education programs, and it's remarkably effective on adults - even adults who've had the same training. The important thing is to repeat it Three Times, politely.
Piss of and Die...
For No: 'Cognitive Behavioural Therapy' - maybe not a full program, that's a commitment and a half. But the methods are useful addition to any PTSD toolkit. The Australian 'Moodgym' gets recommendations, but you'll have to tolerate the incredibly patronizing writing...
Sympathies. And you ain't the asshole in that situation. You were trying to cope w/ an abusive person in authority. The invective and loathing would be more appropriately directed at her. Good job getting out of there.
For the ADHD: medication. Slow release is easier on the system, more...
When a youtube presenter with talkie hands makes you shove backwards, and backwards, and backwards away from the threat until the couch has moved eight feet and there's scratches in the floor.
dammit.
the felt pads did nothing. nothing!
You're not alone in feeling flight response, terrified of exposure/vulnerability.
Seconding erigby: write a few things down to bring in. Suggestion: keep it at 4 or lower. Too much and the list becomes an intimidating wall of text. Too few and there's... gonna be something too brittle to...
1. Coffee
2. If this eighty year old bitch sits at my table i'm going to shake her until her neck snaps.
3. get back in your box.
4. I had a creative thought! KILL IT AND MOUNT IT LIKE A TROPHY.
5. thanks for destabilizing twenty five years of delicate hostility controls, doc.
Wanted to be a writer since I was 4. Flirted w/ writing adjacent careers for 20 years. Now writing - but it's a hobby until I get paid, so fingers crossed and back to work.
Try a websearch for lucid dreaming, or ask T if they can teach it. The idea is to enter sleep with a thought lodged deep enough that it persists into R.E.M. sleep, that either provides comfort or provides an escape (back into wakefulness), Takes practice.
I go to sleep walking through a...
1. I think the psychiatrist has started taking her meds.
2. I don't know where I am.
3. Place lights people crowds faces name name tofu tofu? tofu. shopping. grown up. right. good.
4. boom boom boom i can't singing this bloody tune tune tune (grown up?)
5. New meds are scary.
Bipolar is different for different people. My sibling's bipolar disorder manifests as anger, then deep depression, then back to being manageable. My bipolar disorder bangs the needle back and forth across the gauge, and most of my episodes are 'mixed' - angry/energized, miserable/creative...
Was going to start a thread, then found this one.
Is my T 'supposed' to support me? Am I 'supposed' to want that?
Because I don't care. Not interested in 'validation' or having someone 'understand.' Expressions of sympathy won't teach me a skill. Respect me, great. Support? I don't see...
Had a Master for years. Craved the structure, the simplicity, the honesty. Loved and obeyed.
Had BDSM sex partners (after Master). Pretty obvious (now) that whilst I felt 'good' at the time, they were just getting their rocks off w/ an eager subject. Not proud of that.
Have a Therapist...