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    A Turn Away From Dissociation: The Association Thread

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    So Angry At Doctors

    It's okay, dear, it's okay. You don't deserve to be talked to like that. Do you have an insurance company you call to ask about other doctors? I had a less severe encounter with my doctor. I told him my knee kept dislocating and he said he wouldn't do anything about it. I asked him if he could...
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    Hot And Cold Flashes (or Wacky Body Temperature In General)

    Thank you! Cortisol, huh? Ugh.
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    Detached From Emotions?

    Totally. I'm diagnosed with derealization and depersonalization. I don't know what I'm feeling most of the time, unless it's fear.
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    Sufferer Out Of The Silence

    Hey, OP. You matter and your life is worth so much, no matter what you're feeling. It's always good to take a practice run before telling your therapist (I personally do it on my blog). Keeping it in hurts. Letting it out hurts. It just hurts, period. But we have to feel it to get through it...
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    Hot And Cold Flashes (or Wacky Body Temperature In General)

    You guys are all very sweet. :) Thanks. This has made me feel a lot better. I want to hug you all! :D
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    Poll Does Your PTSD Affect Your Employment Status?

    I'm so sorry. I hope you understand that it really isn't your fault. Be kind to yourself.
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    Food For Thought---taking A Long Time To Process Emotional Stimuli = More Trauma

    Yep, I'm actually feeling super depersonalized right now and have been since yesterday. I hate it. Apparently my mind doesn't want me processing things. Interesting -- on Thursday I saw my therapist and he made me talk to him about a trauma that occurred 7 years ago and only just then did I...
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    How Do You Find The Right Therapist?

    In my experience, it's pure luck. I've been in therapy for about 18 years and only just found the right one a few years ago. I've left a lot of therapists and some of them have even left me.
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    Hot And Cold Flashes (or Wacky Body Temperature In General)

    I know that hot flashes are linked to anxiety. I carry around spray bottles. (Try spraying yourself in the face with water in a college class and not look completely nuts, I dare you.) But there are times when I get really hot and cold at the same time. Like right now, I'm sitting in front of a...
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    Poll Does Your PTSD Affect Your Employment Status?

    I've been trying to get disability for about 6 years now. I've been denied quite a few times. I just can't do anything.
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    At What Age Did Dissociation Start?

    Well, I have bad, bad derealization/depersonalization. It started when I was 8.
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    Ptsd - The Hippie Approach

    Yep. I meditate, do yoga, apply accupressure points, do chants, recite mantras. It's great.
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    What Are You Feeling Today? Not Thinking, Rather Feeling! Can You Identify Yours?

    A strange mixture of hopelessness and cheerfulness. Scared. Existential but very real fear.
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    Standing Up Is Always Difficult And Induces Anxiety

    A past trauma... could be. I just don't know. Reality is just so massive -- it's dizzying. I try to barricade myself against it as much as possible. I check out. I'm derealized and depersonalized 24/7. And to tell the truth, I'm just so pissed off about it. I've been in therapy since I was 3...
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    Standing Up Is Always Difficult And Induces Anxiety

    I have asked why. I talk to my therapist about it. It never goes anywhere. I guess I just feel vulnerable, but that's a given. I don't know.
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    Childhood Found Out My Father Is Gay And Not Sure If Abused In The Past As A Child By Him

    Well, wait, so you think your dad is gay. How does that equate to you thinking he sexually abused you? I feel like I missed something, sorry.
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    Standing Up Is Always Difficult And Induces Anxiety

    LOL I use a cane sometimes, but that's it. Considering getting a walking stick.
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    Standing Up Is Always Difficult And Induces Anxiety

    I've never met someone else who has this symptom. I have terrible anxiety. If I have to stand up, my anxiety goes way up. As long as I'm sitting, the risk of something bad happening to me is lessened. Even if I just have to walk into the kitchen. It's so disabling. When I do stand up, I force...
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    Poll Female Or Male Therapist?

    Male. I feel like female therapists are more likely to judge my sexual orientation/gender presentation. If she knows I'm into women then I'm afraid she'll think I'm disgusting. Or the way I dress or my short hair. I don't ever know if she's thinking something like, "Oh no, not this dyke...
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    Poll How Often Do You Pray?

    I'm mostly a Unitarian Universalist but I pray every night before dinner with my mother, reciting The Lord's Prayer. If we are counting meditation as prayer, I try to meditate once a day.
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    Anyone Else Always Searching?

    @Cherokee Oh, I don't doubt it! A lot of people, especially in the US, don't know. I was just trying to let you know. It's okay.
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    Poll Have You Had To Abandon Any Nicknames Because Of Trauma?

    I legally changed my entire name after trauma.
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    Poll Are You On Any Kind Of Diet?

    I've been a vegetarian for almost 6 years now. So, yeah, no meat. I try not to get too much into dieting dieting (counting calories, weighing myself, etc.) because I had trouble with anorexia/bulimia for a while and I just don't want to trigger that again.
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    Poll When Did the Symptoms of PTSD First Appear, After the Initial Traumatic Event?

    5 years before anything hit me.
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