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Getting a haircut really changes my mood and makes me feel new. In the colder weather I go every two months me keep it slightly longer, like 3 inches so I can comb it back in the front or part it or something. In warmer weather I like to feel fresh so I usually get it cut shorter, especially on...

I'm not generally a moody person at all, but lately whenever it rains it just completely changes my mood. It makes me feel very sad and irritable and I don't want to do anything. I don't get this way in the winter or when it snows or anything, only when it rains. Anyone else have similar problems?

Hey sun seeker. Sorry about your friend. I don't make people stop triggering me. Although incredibly unpleasant, I need to get over it somehow, and repeated exposure to the triggers are what I need. If we all just didn't say anything that could potentially trigger someone, there wouldn't be...

I have flashback-nightmares a lot, where it's like a flashback but while I'm dreaming. Sometimes I'll just flashback to a good memory of when I was 5 or 6. Positive flashbacks never happen while I'm awake though. A recurring one I have is when I'm about 4 strawberry picking with my aunt. For...

Call a domestic abuse hotline, and tell them your local police won't come. They could call in police from another area, or even get them in trouble for not responding. Hope things get better

In my words, a corrective emotional experience is like correcting a misconception that's been engrained in your brain. Like rewriting a negative experience with a positive one. Ex. A survivor of abuse learning that not all men are bad after meeting the man of her/his dreams. Learning that touch...

I was never injured in a car related incident, but I did witness and potentially accidentally cause a fatal car accident (I was a pedestrian). The guy who survived was drunk. Why do the drunks almost always survive and the innocents die? I was emotionally disfigured as a result of that. Drunk...

When I was 5 or 6, my dad worked away and my mother would was staying with relatives in Nebraska for a few months, my uncle took care of me. He did not feed me a lot and I did not go to school yet. He would whip me with extension cords a lot and chase me around the house, and I would call that...

I tend to trust people unless they give me a reason not to, but of course be situation matters. I'd trust a stranger to take a picture of me and not steal my phone, but I wouldn't trust a stranger to give me a ride. I tell myself to trust people, and rely on the natural niceness that people...

I've made my full grown man therapist nearly cry on the first and only appointment. First he asked if I was ok being alone, then he said he needs to leave for a moment because he's close to tears.

Honestly, I haven't noticed anything bad. I've been a member since September and I've been very active on the forums since, visiting the forums and chatroom frequently. I wouldn't have been able to tell people have been trashing each other if it weren't for the posts about the chat. Since I've...

A lot of times if my dog moves in bed or I hear something while I sleep, I immediately wake up and flinch. This happens like a few times a night, and usually I'm able to fall back asleep immediately, and it started the same time I developed symptoms for PTSD. I flinch a lot in the day too, but...

I have this problem also. It is the worst when I'm riding in a car at night and another car drives by and the headlights are really bright. It gives me headaches and hurts my eyes. I also have the same problem with hearing. Some noises perceived and tolerable to others are extremely loud to...

I think I can relate. Just a while ago, I realized that a large amount of the people that are closest to me are like parental roles, especially men. I don't know if it's normal or not, but it's nothing weird. The adults that are closest to me have acted like parents to me. They're mainly...

Your story made me cringe. Sorry you had to go through that. I hate going to the dentist. I'm ok with it while I'm there, but when they touch my neck or something I just get all nervous and get the creepy crawlies on my skin and tense up.

I'm an agnostic/atheist, but by no means do I disrespect or look down upon religious people whatsoever. I was raised Catholic, but found the belief unrealistic and cruel in certain aspects. How could a God have the power to prevent great suffering and famine and disaster, but not do a thing to...

I guess for most people they freeze up or space out or something. For me, you wouldn't be able to tell anything abnormal was happening. I have flashbacks a lot, and I'm usually able to do the task at hand as if I weren't flashing back, like playing sports, taking a test, reading a book etc...

INTJ The only Meyer-Briggs test I trust is the one at the 16personalities website (Google: 16 personalities). All the other online ones I've taken tend to lean WAY too hard on Introversion, judgement and iNtuition. You can even tell just by looking at the previous results. An f-ton of people...

I love Bernie.I also love Hillary (but not as much as Bernie) However, Martin O'Malley still has my heart, even though he dropped out. For those of you who don't know him, he was the third democrat guy in the debates that nobody really cared about. I actually wrote him letters and got...

It's never ever possible to justify child abuse. It is possible to justify child corporal discipline. For my parents, it wasn't discipline, it was full on abuse. I always thought it was discipline and it's fine, but this forum made me realize that it was in fact abuse, and really severe too...

Every leap day since we were 7, my friends and I would go to school dressed all weird in costumes and such, and go out to eat for breakfast and dinner. When people ask why we'd say "why it's leap day!" When we were 7, we thought it was a special event and my teacher let us believe that and said...

I would definitely call it child abuse when your mom nearly choked you. I would call it child abuse if you are hit with a wooden spoon/shoes/other anywhere besides the thighs, rear, back, or arms, or it causes a mark that stays around for more than an hour. I might call it abusive when your mom...

I'm so sorry, fadeaway. I just don't know what to say. Just know that we're here

I have similar experiences with alterations in my flashbacks. When I was 13, I was hit over the head with a huge flashlight and passed out. When I woke up, I couldn't remember anything about what happened, except who knocked me out, and why (my "boss" when I worked at the local barn, and because...

A few days before my 14th birthday, I witnessed and possibly caused a horrific, fatal car accident. I was walking home from school, alone because I had to stay after for detention for bouncing a ball too high and onto the roof. A guy who donated books to my middle school drove by, and I waved to...