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It will depend on your county and how many spots they have available. Your therapist will be able to tell you more about where you live. If you are going to school in a different county, you might also be able to apply for emergency shelter there. As much as you do love your mother and other...

I have only been to two dentists and they both had me wear one. They're both in the same state, though. I've only been there when women of childbearing age have been getting x-rays, so that might be part of it.

I love wearing the x-ray vest. For me, it has the same effect as a weighted blanket.

Going back and looking at one of your posts that outlined your trauma history, I think that your mother hitting you with a hair brush would be considered abuse. Putting it into the context of your mother placing blame on you for horrible things that were done to you and were in no way your...

I experience something similar with the medications that I take at night, except that the dreams that it happens with are not nightmares. I'll have a dream that is essentially an ordinary day that seems so real that I'll think the things actually happened. Another big one is that I'll wake up...

Has anyone directed you to information about scapegoating in families? I think it might be helpful in trying to understand the dynamics in your family. Would a crisis shelter be a possibility in your area? It might be something to talk to your therapist about. In my area, you would qualify...

Definitely. For me, there are some combinations of symptoms that make me seem like I'm functioning better than normal. I'll be anxious, hypervigilant, and jittery, but it will have the effect of having me thinking faster and wanting to keep very busy. I went through a phase like this...

Do you think that you would feel safe in the house if it were clean? It seems like the house is one way that your family remains tied to your abuser. Has your family considered leaving the house? The hoarder is no longer in the home to benefit theraputically from the cleaning process. It...

My opinion is also that he's most likely lying, but I also wanted to add that it would be terrifying if he was dissociating to that extent. It's definitely not something that you would want to just accept if you do try to believe him. As presumably his main supporter, he should have told you...

I think that corporal punishment is absolutely abuse if there is any other form of abuse in the child's life that the parents are aware of. There may be room for debate if the parents are otherwise great but that isn't usually the context that sends people here asking questions like this.

That's great! Feeling like someone is hovering over me all the time would drive me nuts.

I can relate a lot to how you're reacting to these triggers. For me, planning can help. I would plan out where I can go for food, count up how much nonperishables I have, plan my meals, and round up all of my money. I'm not sure if that is the healthiest way of going about things, but it's my...

Are you seeing a therapist? This is the kind of thing that I will bring to mine. It is helpful to have her with me keeping an eye on things.

Everything you have described fits the diagnosis. Flashbacks can take different forms. For a lot of people, they don't match the stereotype that we learn from the media.

Does anyone have any advice for dealing with this? There are times that my entire body freezes up. I feel all of my muscles tensing up. It is like I am an animal trying to stay still because a predator would not be able to see me then. The stressor causing this reaction isn't something that...

When you start having dreams that have you walking down the street and forgetting where you are going or how to get there. It's bad enough during the day. I don't need to relive it at night.

Do you know what medications your family members take? That can be very helpful in giving them a starting point of some medications might have less side affects. I have been diagnosed with different things than my father, but we still react well to the same antidepressants.

I have a pretty extensive family history of psychosis. I definitely feel like I have something hanging over my head sometimes. I get some comfort from knowing that my psychiatrist is aware of this history and is helping me to take precautions to try to avoid it. I still find myself planning...

If you are feeling like you can't be honest with your therapist, that's something you should tell her. My first t and I spent a lot of time working on this. It might be something that you need to back off of a bit and return to later.

Nope @Fadeaway. That was my childhood, too. I do also wonder if having siblings might make it more likely that neglect would be discovered. It seems logical that each kid would increase the chances of discovery, since each child would have their own circle of people that they interact with...