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You're doing just fine with the cats because they don't like to be controlled, you've got to treat them with great sensitivity, and if you can't figure out what they want all the time then that's not your problem. Cats easily learn how to hunt prey when they are outside, i suspect they are doing...

Yeah i hate twitter and facebook, and frankly forums in general scare me because moderators can only abide by their own policy...i do find anonymity over the internet to pretty comforting.

I actually don't remember where i read about being "blameless" as a buddhist ethic, some book. But what i was saying is that since i try to be honest, then i don't have to feel as guilty as people who choose to live their life through excuses and justifications. Sometimes i do feel guilty...

Nah don't despair, i've read lot's of books and thought "man, i wish i had published this, because i knew it all along! So jealous!". I just try to be as honest as possible because then i don't have to feel as guilty about when i do, speaking of which i used to be more of a buddhist. It's that...

I've spent a lot of time watching documentaries about the really horrible things people do, trying to understand psychological motivations for something as strange and contradictory as sexual abuse...and yeah talking about trauma isn't easy, so we all need to basically try to be sympathetic...

There's just so much spiraling despair, anxiety, and vague information about traumas. I'm not saying the forum is bad, but I would really like to be able to read through such disturbing texts without reacting in a way that makes anyone angry at me. Someone either getting angry about something i...

Fair enough, and if you are female, you are also more likely to be killed by a man or non-sexually assaulted too. However, whether it is weird or not is up to each person. I don't fault the therapist even though I guess she could have said, "are you afraid of people because someone has hurt...

Yes, but why not attack that directly in therapy (figuratively speaking) instead of breadcrumbing when lilac already answered the question? If you're afraid of people, you are afraid of men. "Sexually abuse" and "sexual assault" are vague categories for a very large set of behaviors. Women abuse...

I appreciate the sympathy, luckily i got to sleep less than a 1/2 hour after i posted this.Today is going to be a good day!

This looks like a really nice forum to talk about anxiety and traumatic experiences -- I've self-diagnosed because i've taken quizzes on therapy websites and they say i'm "high risk". I really have no idea what that means, but I do know that a lot of people have belittled my intelligence over...

That is a weird question! Of course, it's not that weird considering that you are both women, and unfortunately mental health professionals insinuate things in a way that offends people sometimes. Since your dad just looked offended probably means, and you tried not to laugh, probably means you...