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Thank you Sazza :) Sorry if I am not very articulate today... T session yesterday and is like my brain is on overload today. :( And yeah, must be nice to be able to do that, I agree. Had that lost in my head feeling just yesterday... Fighting it is exhausting, I have discovered. Sorry I...

I am feeling overwhelmed today... But I can't identify anything else :( And ((((hugs)))) to you Alex (Icon Nikon) if you want them... So sorry you have to go through all this...

Thank you both, for the advice and the reassurance... I am going to try to think of this as progress and not backsliding... It is probably true that I needed to do everything I already did to get to this point (though I guess I just thought I'd be further along than it feels like I am right...

Hi... I had therapy today. Got to a certain point and my T and I got to be talking about my feeling that being abused was my fault. She said that children who are abused have no choice but to blame themselves. She asked if that made sense to me, and I said not exactly (why would a child have...

Poor sweet dog. I am glad she has someone like you to help her :inlove: and give her a good home. No person or animal should ever be mistreated that way. My cat isn't scared enough... LOL... She knows darn well she is not supposed to knead her claws on the wood furniture, but she hears me...

I came home from my therapy appointment--which I still have to deal with--but I am seriously pissed, and yes it is a small thing but it makes me very angry. I went on Facebook because my partner usually leaves me a message each day, and his eldest child had a post about her immigration status...

It most certainly is... Couldn't agree more. It was for me, too.

My brother and his wife coming over the day after Christmas. We are estranged, and although I care about him, and like her, I am not comfortable with him at the best of times (and don't know her well enough to be comfortable). But it is especially bad, because in the last month, I contacted...

I would say, based on the author, (and contents) that they are all things that people who have been abused (especially as children, but I think any kind of abuse or mistreatment would apply) have lost and had taken away from them as a result of that abuse or mistreatment. I think (my own...

Thank you so much for the post, Junebug :) :) :) Really, really helps :) And yeah, that is what I am doing too... Trying to learn how to do that.

((((Littlebear)))) Sorry to you and Sazza both that this turned into something like this... Especially when you are hurting... And it ended up being public (through no fault of anyone's) for you both. ((((Sazza)))) Hang in there guys :) Appreciate you both :) And you too, Nicolette...

This is me, completely agreeing with Nicolette. :)

I have one other suggestion, about the memories thing. There is a book, it's called Writing to Heal. It has a number of exercises in it, but the basic one is to set a timer and pick a topic/trauma, and set the timer for 20 minutes. You write, without stopping, or thinking about what you are...

Well, it is hard to say how things will go if you have a dissociative disorder (they may well get worse before they get better, but that is the case with any trauma survivor, but it could be more pronounced). I do have one as well, but I think that you are better off dealing with it than not...

You're not alone... My partner (prev. fiance) and I split up at the end of August and are now back together... But we've agreed not to see each other until January, so that we could rebuild the love and especially the trust that was lost (on my part, mostly). Although I am doing way better...

I would also add to this, I have the right to my own body. (Which seems like a foreign concept, but...) I also have the right to choose who, how, when, where or if someone else touches me in any way.

Well, I used to have several really good ones of these, but lost them when I lost my (computer) journal :( So I had a quick look around and here are two I think are pretty good: A Personal Bill of Rights (Charles Whitfield) 1. I have numerous choices in my life beyond mere survival. 2. I...

This is EXACTLY where I am right now, "feeling jittery and scared because of the void tinged with dread and darkness around the edges." That is a perfect description of how I feel... As though I am hanging around the periphery, and I am afraid of falling in.

There was so much in this article--which I have not even finished the very last one--that was so exactly ME that it is overwhelming. I think this is what I am most struggling with now in my therapy. I am starting to recognize some of the things my parents did--my dad in particular right...

Thank you both for responding :) and I really appreciate you comments, Milbert, very much :) It's good just to know I am not alone. Thanks!

Hmm... strange, because I am sure I read that post before, when it first came out, and you hadn't been mentioned in it... (Although it's possible I just never noticed the reference) But I guess you'd have to ask the poster for clarification. It doesn't sound to me like you did anything wrong...

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I didn't see it either... And all I can say Sazza is from what I saw, and I didn't even really read much of it, doesn't look or sound to me like you (or Heather) were responsible for what went on there, it was just a heated topic that got too hot. I don't like to get into that stuff much...

I don't know about the post but I think it was very brave of you to post this and you handled it really well. I am glad you are here, and like everyone has said, sometimes stuff just gets misunderstood. That happens in RL too (otherwise most people would never fight or have disagreements...

Well, I have to chime in on this, because I've been on the other end of the addiction. Having said that, I do not know how much time you spend on Xbox. (I personally, love my Xbox Kinect for exercising. :) ) So I am not going to comment on that, other than it's something you need to really...