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I think therapists, in my experience anyway, are very reluctant to put labels on anything you are going through. I do not know why, though I can guess it is because they want you to deal with the issues you have, and not adopt a whole load of new symptoms from whatever diagnosis they give you...

My therapist always lectures me on how 'You can't do therapy intellectually', so yes I completely understand you. I find it easy to discuss some things that have happened as though it was a story for someone else and analyse it as an outsider, but being actually vulnerable and showing those...

I don't regret having done it when I needed it. I don't do it any more because I have found other ways to deal with bad emotion, but not all of those are good options either to be honest. I don't think people who use drink, drugs, food etc. to handle their emotions are any better or different...

It just takes time, and even then, I still have details of things I have never told anyone because sometimes you just can't spit them out. At times though I have found the easiest way to say it if you feel you need to is to write it down and just give it to them. Its horribly awkward as they...

@Gia1019 @whiteraven Thanks for your replies and the advice! I am still too petrified to attempt a doctors, but I mentioned some stuff to T yesterday regarding dissociative disorders and how I think I have dissociated since I was very young. I also mentioned getting confused between what has...

Yer, I guess that is what therapy is for, giving you an appropriate place and time to look after yourself, as you said not when other people need you :) I get what you mean regarding realising you have a whole host more stuff to deal with. I have been in therapy most of my life and I thought I...

All I can say is talk to him about it, it can be hard to balance to be honest. My boyfriend also has PTSD, it can make the relationship difficult and hard, but I have also decided it is worth it, so I am sticking it out. I personally would send him an email or long text explaining what I was...

If my boyfriend goes to bed after me, or if I am left alone in the bed I always sleep with my fluffy bear Woster. I didn't get him till I was 16, but he's really special to me as I never got to have big toys as a kid, they were too expensive. He's seen me through thick and thin since, and is...

I find working with PTSD exceptionally hard, I earn well and if I lost my job chances are my boyfriend and I would have to move etc. Its really hard on days when you just want to give up and never go back. On the other hand it does keep you distracted, while it is hard, sometimes its better...

Hey @BookerNoe, I have been going through exactly the same thing recently, its been very uncomfortable, some things you wish you never knew... Sadly I don't have much advice on how to deal with it, as its all pretty new to me as well, but I hope you are okay. Totally get the world crashing...

- Whoop! Wrote some fun code, and it works! So far :cool: - I am really really really tired. - Bed is comfy, I should be here more often. - Work is exhausting, no idea how I keep it up - Wow my bedside table is messy! Probs need to remove the huge amount of rubbish on it :P

This is an odd thing to post, I considered I may have DID years ago, but then dismissed it as me being over the top and dramatic. However a few things have happened recently that have highlighted this may be a very real issue. The question is what do I do. Will getting diagnosed help or should...

I do one or the other intermittently. I am either watching everything that goes past or paying attention to nothing going on around me at all. Often when I am hyper vigilant I can't cope for very long anywhere except for a quiet room. Sudden movements make me jumpy and I am analysing everyone...

I don't think I have DID, but I definitely forget things all the time. I often end up doing the same action multiple times because I don't remember doing it at all, my boyfriend is just used to it now. I think the PTSD messes with you short term memory as well as long term when it relates to...

I have very mixed feelings towards being angry. I used to have an incredibly short fuse and had multiple therapists for anger management since I was 11. The therapy summary was: my dad had major anger issues and so I reacted to them to defend myself -> rather explosively. That then meant I saw...

I think it is just important for the therapist to know what you would like to get out of the sessions, it gives insight into where you feel you are, and your ideal of where you would like to be. I imagine in your next session you will discuss each one, why they are issues for you now, how you...

I had a very similar situation with my sister. She was/is depressed, OCD, eating disordered any many more things, and I spent 10+ years of my life enabling her. I had to go home to see her, had to go to parties with her, run in and fix her up when she cut too deep. It ended up with me n1: not...

I personally told my bf very early on, he was my first serious relationship since and I needed to make it clear things were going to go slow. I have flashbacks in sex & dissociate etc. it felt unfair not to explain what was going on. That being said it took a long time for me to provide any...

Gin tastes nice Would like to learn more stuff but feel to lazy Why am I such a lazy shit sometimes? Glad I saw my mum today :) Maybe I shall re-plant my lettuces tomorrow!

My most important advice is to get a therapist. I know thats a really boring answer, but most of the time speaking about things, and focusing on small goals helps you get your life together. Its a long, hard road to feeling more like yourself again, and to be honest things do get worse before...

My goal is to apparently not have a goal. My therapist thinks I need to stop stressing myself and over thinking everything. I think that makes it worse for me --> stresses now about not having a goal. With previous therapists it has been like: Reduce number of panic attacks, be able to speak...

I am currently having acupuncture for migraines, and I started having flashbacks of stuff I had forgotten/repressed. I freaked out slightly and asked the acupuncturist if that was even a thing that could happen, and apparently it is. There is a belief that your body holds 'memories' in your body...

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I don't get any notice at all, it just happens, though I must say with me its often either causing or caused by a panic attack in my sleep, so all I know is nightmare --> sleep paralysis.

"That must have been horrible for you" - No shit Sherlock... Not like I would be here talking to you if it was a pleasant experience. "Are you sure you were not just drunk?" - N1, EVEN DRUNK ITS RAPE HUN. And N2, I know the difference between drunk and drugged, as someone who drinks WAY too...