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Excellent. I will be covered in cats. Warm fur. I'm glad you have a good dog!!!

Please hang in there, stay safe. I hope another night of sleep and maybe then something to release some anger? Will be thinking of you. Hugs.

Hi @desiderata310 . I'm sorry your feelings are so difficult to deal with right now. Meds affect everyone differently but I had a similar response as @joeylittle said to Seroquel, at a low dose it's not really for psychosis but rather can get one sleeping when one's brain has turned into a...

Hi @shimmerz, a couple of family members of mine who I am pretty sure had/have other personality disorders, also seemed to never really work on this type of stuff... (I think my mom might have had "dependent" pd, for instance; "being taken care of" seems to have been her answer from my...

It is very difficult sometimes, I think, for all of us, to know how much to "push" ourselves vs. how much to not push. An alternative to "pushing" yourself into discomfort is working to feel safer. (I used the word WORK on purpose. You sound like you have worked hard, and paying attention to...

When feeling this kind of thing in my left hand, I also often notice my left eye drooping some, it blinks. I also sometimes feel a jolt after a while, usually the left foot, which jumps a bit. It feels sort of like related energy has focused for a second but mostly is not focused.

This sounds really familiar! I can really related to just sort of keeping a dry mental outline of difficult periods but not staying in them really, so the details can take real will to retrieve -- or just be missing. The phobic thing makes sense... As an aside... I think that some of the...

That would be very hard... perhaps you can commit to continuing to help yourself, including searching until you find good long-term external help, though? -- that can be a long-term commitment even if this therapist cannot be there long-term. The time limitation sounds similar to the...

@Biz and @Chava, both of your posts have parts in common with my experiences over the last couple of years. The first thing I noticed was that sections of my left shoulder's deep muscles didn't have feeling in them; only getting regular massages brought those to my awareness. Areas weren't...

There do seem to be boundary issues going on; @Anjiibe ... while my sense is that while on one level, you believe you are trying to help others, your interactions with us feel like they are colored strongly by your own perspective and experiences still. That can harm people without you being...

Yes, I see you're in the U.S.... document it! Also any other incidents. Look carefully at your company's misbehavior-related rules, too. Is there a Human Resources person at your company? Possibly get guidelines from them? Maybe other folks here can comment on whether that's a good idea... I'm...

I have been thinking that it could be so helpful to have these (somatic?) experiences written down in more "official" sorts of places, and correlated somehow with whatever the heck they are. The fear of the somatic experiences is sometimes worse (for me anyway) than the experience itself. The...

That is truly wonderful, I'm very glad for you!!! Any thoughts on decorations? Plants? :happy:

For those people who have muscle problems like pain and tension in neck and shoulders, do you ever also have deep muscle itching? I have very little pain, an occasional sharp twinge, but for years numerous muscles, mostly on my left side, apparently just stayed very tense. I have exercised a...

Chocolate! Chocolate! Trolls are supposed to turn to stone when exposed to sunlight... Let's make a rule that trolls here get turned into chocolate, and the moderators can eat them.

I am particularly glad that this one was banned, not that I've kept track of all the banned folks. However a dynamic from my own history (that I have found out is pretty common) was that I was supposed to "take care of" my abuser. He was abused, after all, my grandmother would say, and since...

I'm glad you're going back to see if this can be improved. Can you imagine a "perfect response" that a therapist could have had to issues like you mention here? It sounds like you believe the T should say your action was inappropriate but what about the criticism part; was it worded strongly or...

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Hi Shimmerz, please take this one step at a time **and** take care of your health -- you are important!!! Don't look way down the road and make assumptions right now about what won't be available. If you need surgery, it seems likely that the hospital can't legally discharge you afterwards...

I think some of its sedating effects might take effect faster than its antidepressant... it is not like a benzo quite but is one of the more sedating ssri types. From what I remember, which is always suspect. :rolleyes:

Alternating between getting-things-done mode where I don't feel very much, and feeling more, might be old stuff -- which seems to lead to really quick exhaustion and feeling overwhelmed by 'normal' things.

Have you looked into "transgenerational" effects of trauma? While it's possible that some of the issues are genetic, it's also possible that lots of predispositions are passed along via subtle emotional attachment-related abilities of caregivers as well as even the hormonal (stress chemicals...

There are truly warm therapists out there! I love your avatar photo. You deserve to feel secure, warm and cuddled like the cat in the photo, in therapy -- well it's hard work too and upsetting sometimes but I believe there should be warmth.

It really seems to me like your second sentence is a perfect example of your first sentence, just shifted a little!!! This is not a "poor me" at all; please give yourself support -- you deserve support, and these issues are real.

@NovemberStar -- does it help you to read stuff that matches your experience? At least it's in the "external reality"...? I am hoping that some of the stuff I'm reading by various (mostly Dutch!) researchers -- for instance about types of dissociation associated with early abuse -- will become...