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Yeah, I think that is why the horror genre has such a cult following. Horror stories are way easier to process and get emotive to than facing the real life horrors of just being alive. I always found books and movies pull on my heart strings too. Problem is I haven't been able to really get into...

I kinda feel the same way Solara, though I don't really feel compassion for the people who did the killing...that was an extreme over reaction. Having the freedom of press and expression in the west does not give us the license to make fun of other peoples religion, even if we think it's...

@FridayJones Yes, and I'm sure they did not make those cartoons without some idea that it would cause some kind of hostile reaction from fringe Islamic groups. One of the cartoonists mentioned in 2010 after another attack from offensive satire created there, that he'd rather die on his feet than...

Thanks for the reminder Radise. That helped a lot. :)

I put a question mark at the end of the subject heading, as I'm honestly not sure whether what I experience when yet another tragic shooting or act of terror occurs in the world, as with the latest Charlie Hebdo situation in Paris, is due to ptsd or compassion fatigue, but there are simply too...

This doesn't surprise me. I'm positive that if I hadn't have had such an extensive background with yoga and zen meditation in my early 20's I would not have made the same level of recovery as I have today. That and art as therapy were tools I had under my belt prior to my traumatic events, and...

I just re-read over this thread. It's still relevant to me at the moment actually, so I'm glad I stumbled across this. I've had a couple of people say to me things like "You have a small brain, you don't enjoy your life", and "Enjoy your life" or "You don't seem to be enjoying your life", and...

I'm lucky in that I have had support groups like this thread for the last year or two, throughout the entire time I've been no contact with my parents and brothers, so for me, the need for support here is less so than for you solara, or anyone just fresh to the experience. It is still nice to...

Sometimes that is true, and I have recently allowed my middle brother to communicate with me via Linkdin and he knows it's on my terms. He says he has changed, but they all say that. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt until any red flags present themselves...but only because he treated me...

I've got my family of friends and my cat and they actually give a shit about me, so those other people can just deal with life without me. Using my condition against me during crazy making moments and backstabbing me to the rest of the so called family isn't what loving people do. I'd rather be...

I kinda did this, though I didn't apply for disability...just what is called Newstart allowance here. It's an allowance they pay you to look for work. I was on it for 4 years and it is half as much as what they pay people on disability. It was my compromise to admitting I needed to be on...

@TLight...I'm quite sure I would not have had to go through as much either, but then that would have meant breaking out of the bad habit of being so hard on myself. Having compassion for everyone else except me...can't have that. No, I had to punish myself as much as possible and prove how...

Uh, I actually did do this, and my psychologist did tell them personally about my condition, but in true form they made it all about them and it went in one ear and out the other and it was never spoken of again and they completely swept it under the carpet, as with every other problem. Your...

Well, I made it simple and cut all contact with them. Regardless of whether they are flawed and human and hurt themselves, it does not change the fact that they caused me massive damage and are unwilling to look at their own issues and admit how they are contributing to my situation.

I've had that even from a mother whose son has it and she gives him full props for being open about it, but somehow I'm using it as an excuse to not be a professional artist or plan for my future? It's great you have your own house though. I love coming home to my bungalow and leaving the world...

I had the same thought. My issues stem from having inconsistent parents who were nice to me one minute and total assholes to me when I was suffering. How do you deal with that?

Why do they think you are hiding something simply simon? Is it a certain way you look or act?

I'm so like this as well. I think I have a much stronger reaction to liars than most people do. I cannot stand liars and will not tolerate them, and my family are all extremely deceitful people...well, maybe not my little brother as much as the others, but he can also be very challenging in his...

I'm also very much this way, for very much the same reasons. I annoy myself at my incessant need to always be a "good girl", so I'm guessing there is some underlying belief that I am bad and that is what is driving this? I used to go to extremes to overcome the "too good" thing, by taking heaps...

A phone call might have been safer in retrospect. Your scenario didn't pan out though ms spock, thankfully, so that is something to be happy about and grateful for. We do take silly risks when in a dissociative headspace, so that is something to watch out for and try and stop from happening, if...

These sort of actions can be so healing and bring some closure, if you can find that sort of strength. Congratulations. This thread is from November 20th last posting...has there been any progressions or anything else happen as a result of you confronting him and his parents? I also managed to...

Utterly exhausted. Sore muscles, just want to collapse and sleep for 20 hours but need to find something for tomorrow before I do...and can't find it, which is annoying and frustrating.

It's good you have perspective about the differences in people who do this sort of thing. So many people seem to have boundary issues. I've had an overwhelming amount of sexual harassment in just the last year...just today a co-worker slapped me on the ass. She was just young and from vietnam...

I do agree with you about our reactions often are telling, as with feeling upset at being delivered a criticism by someone close to me especially. If what the person tells me is true and I know it, I will react and feel upset and throw a bit of a tantrum or get defensive. I know they are...

I guess for me, it all depends on where I am at, emotionally, at any given moment, as to how I receive and handle criticism. I used to be terrible at accepting criticism, but I also grew up in a household where my father was very critical, or making 'jokes' that were designed to humiliate me or...