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My housemate, who up until last week, vehemently stated he would never sell this place, has been talking all week about buying a new place and has scheduled a realtor in to assess the place. My ONE stability has destabilized and I haven't slept much since I realized he was serious. The tremors...

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What everyone else said: talk to your health care team. Sleep is critical to healing, and necessary for the EMDR to work properly.

I use this directory when I'm stuck or judging myself or need another perspective. https://internationaltherapistdirectory.com/

Thanks so much for responding @Teamwork - I honor that, your speaking, truly. Love that you mentioned becoming friends, as that's been my approach with Death, Life, Pain, Grief, Honesty. I have been trying it on with this and it feels peaceful, which is amazing... as much as I feel the anger...

I have the hardest time talking about this, but it's not impossible anymore. I can identify the shapes and 'characters' but doing so and talking about it makes me feel a loss of control, shame, sadness, and anger. I know in many cultures DID is accepted spiritually and/or culturally, sometimes...

Update: tremors seem to be PTSD-based. I apparently contracted a virus (allegedly not covid) and it turned the tremors violent. As is usual for me, I did not present with a fever, though I felt like I had one and I sweat through my sheets every night for at least a week. Don't have my notes on...

The cat, leaving me a Poop Sacrifice because I changed her litter and she loves it 😹😻

Codependency is not in the DSM. I despise when therapists tell women (the only people I've encountered to be told they're codependent) they are codependent and need to change. I don't think it's honest. I don't think it's real. And it makes it your problem. Which it clearly isn't, as I'm sure...

I don't know if this is for me, and if it is, I don't know what it means.... 😬

Yep. This is pretty indicative of repressed trauma... but not conclusive obviously. Do you want to find out? Do you have a therapist who can help you unravel whatever is there to remember or not?

When you go to put a laugh emoji on something and realize all the other emoji reactions are all hugs and sad faces..... and you can't figure out for the life of you why it's not funny to other people, or you can't wrap your head around why it's sad or hug-worthy... When you realize this means...

Hm. I thought I recalled reading in one of my PTSD manuals the authors referring to voiding across the board... I did know voiding referred clinically to urination, but I seem to recall it being used inclusively... is there no inclusive word for the sudden and unconscious excretion of any or all...

Yeah that's my point.... individual voiding symptoms are correlated, but not voiding as whole. People with PTSD/CPTSD have been shown to have general voiding symptoms - all inclusive puking, pissing, shitting, nausea, coughing, spitting, puking, sweating.... I was hoping there might be some...

Why can't I find a hundred articles on how common voiding is for people with PTSD or CPTSD? Everything I've read discusses proclivity for UTIs etc.... but nothing that nails down voiding. Anyone know of any studies on this? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12853803/

- When the walk in doc tells you your sinus infection and bronchitis are "a simple nerve headache," and all I need "is a head massage" because you're cracking jokes and calling covid a bitch and asking her if she's still sane. Next time I'll just cry? Scream? Moan and bitch? - When those...

I did this and it changed my whole approach to everything and gave me a WAY better understanding as to a) when I can do what b) when I can't, c) when I can push things, and d) when I absolutely should not. If it's not working, don't force it?

Ain't that the flamin truth!!! 💯

What @arfie said. Also.... "voiding", I've learned, is a common process for moving through PTSD (et al). I started puking before work every morning a couple weeks ago. Discussed with psych - is this ptsd? Is it meds? Is it work-related? Stress? Why so nauseous? Then work fired me and the puking...

I was like WTF is compliment-based therapy, but if you mean compassion, those are two different things entirely and from that, I jump to your resistance to self-compassion. Why so anti-self-compassion? Sounds like a good therapy session to me. How far can you hate yourself? Can you have...

Totes normal. Therapists literally have a rule book with specific steps, and the first one is for you to Be Honest. Like completely raw and brutally honest. That's probably the hardest part. You'll progress and you'll "go backwards", fancy one step forward two steps back till you break through...

When I brought up my lostness with this to my therapist, my therapist said not to go to the hospital unless/until they take me, but I'm not you and I don't know your sitch, and I'm not qualified to give advice... I do know your feeling, the powerlessness and hopelessness and lostness. I hope you...

I related it to moving so much, to not having home stability (even in adulthood). But if I'm honest, it's because the pictures make me sad. They remind me of people I miss, times I miss, and they make me feel *lacking*.

Normal yes... How I deal: I check the memory and feeling into my "come back to this later" box. Sometimes I forget about it, but it'll come back when it's ready, so I trust my spirit to bring it up or not, when Everything is ready. Then I reorient myself to the present. If I keep getting...

After I was assaulted as a developing minor by a grandfather figure (call him Y) whose family we were living with before moving overseas, he said he "did it to teach me a lesson", and the lesson was that I should not trust anyone. Somehow this answer justified his behavior to my parents, who...