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Comment with your favorite Metallica song or song lyrics. One of mine is from "The day that never comes" "Born to push you around Better just stay down You pull away, he hits the flesh You hit the ground"

This is really great advice. Thank you.

You are absolutely right. I really needed to hear this. Thank you so much.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Thank you for sharing this. I'm glad to hear you're in a better place after therapy and cutting off contact with your parents. I think EMDR may be helpful to me as well because I still carry around feelings of guilt and that sense of responsibility you speak of even now and I'm not sure I can...

Hi thank you so much for your reply. Perhaps I didn't explain the honeymoon phase properly and apologize for any confusion. But Everything you've stated is how I feel to a T. That pull back into the cult. Into the abuse. The grieving (yes I experienced child abuse), the longing for a normal...

I have recently been experiencing some feelings of sympathy and pity for my abusive parent. Which has ultimately started to erode my guard and disarm me. And I hate this feeling of being out of control and not being able to stop these feelings! I don't like being conflicted and gaslighted and I...

Despondency. Space cadet. Auto pilot-ish. Like a zombie. Dead inside?

I've been feeling similar and never thought that it could be a hormone imbalance. Good input

I'm usually more cheery when the holiday comes around but now I can relate to how you feel. Exhausted, drained. My mom is anal about holidays and makes it stressful and complains and bitches and I just can't keep doing the holidays like this. I can't keep faking a smile or happy attitude when I...

It warms my heart to read all of you guy's positive feedback. I am really emotional and appreciate the continued and enduring support you guys give. I hope you know how much it has helped me begin to get over this huge hurdle. @BlueOrange @EveHarrington @aut555 @gizmo

I appreciate this more than you know.

Thank you for the reassurance.

I have not been participating much since there have been so many traumatic things going on in my life and maybe it's crazy to feel this easy but I do feel a little guilty about that because you guys have been here for me in the past in tremendous ways. Im still struggling with a lot but I hope...

@aut555 I really appreciate this message. I'm in therapy right now, twice a week due to increase in suicide ideation and worsening depression. I think I could benefit from being on antidepressants but not sure if I qualify for them without insurance or without speaking to a psychiatrist. I don't...

Sometimes what we feel is too much.... Really feeling that right now.

I've went for walks but maybe hugging a tree or laying in the grass would be a good thing for me.. what does feeling dead inside look like to you?

Possibly? It feels like something in me has just died and it's no longer there. Like feeling hollow or nothing there. I am facing a big crisis in my personal life and maybe that's what brought it on. Before this I was already feeling flat and hopeless and depressed but now everything is...

Wow. This definitely resonates with me. I could have wrote it myself. For a long time and even still I always thought I was crazy for recognizing the dysfunction. It made me distrust my own perceptions. I never thought of myself as strong but weak. Thank you for your insight and giving me a new...

Thank you @rosey and @Coffee . It has been very difficult to keep my head above water. I've been seeing my t regularly, talking with friends and doing other things like music and reading to fight through it. I appreciate your kind words and advice. Trying to not give in and keep fighting

Not much more I can say but that. Life is hard.

I can relate to a lot of your personal story and Im so sorry for what you have went through. I know what it's like for your home to be a war zone and it's terrible. And people who support those who have abused are dead wrong, I agree. Thanks for your input and I hope you have been coping well...

Ahh okay..i see. Really good to know maybe I should start it on a weekend and not at the end of the week to see how it will affect me as I don't have school or work this weekend. Thanks for sharing your experience

I completely understand where you're coming from, and how in your situation you had no choice in the matter. I empathize with what you have went through and am so sorry for the losses you've accumulated a long the way. Thats why I think its such a complicated issue. Like @Naoru said you do what...

I'm right there with you @Zanshin :)