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I am so very happy for you that you felt heard. Your relief is palpable.

Ugh. The only thing I can tell you is that personality disorder diagnoses have particularly low "reliability"; that is, they are particularly likely to be diagnosed differently by different diagnosticians. That is fact. This is opinion: mental illness labels are just theoretical constructs based...

I'm very sorry that you're feeling this way. It sounds like you're feeling that your world is a pretty dark place right now. Please might I make two suggestions? Please could you look for positive things? Little things like even the smallest kindnesses that you see? Please also could you try to...

I don't get why this is funny? (I'm not that bright - I often don't get jokes. But I hate missing out on the humor!)

(I'm not sure why the original poster was quoted four times above. I feel like I've done something naughty, but it wasn't intentional.)

I'm not sure if this is trauma related or a normal part of lifespan development, but at about the age of 45 I stopped thinking of my future, other than my eventual death, and started worrying about what I'm going to leave behind. Specifically, my only goal for myself has become a sort of...

If this behaviour is condoned on this forum, then I would like to be banned. Thank-you.

With this and other threads about weird therapist behaviours on this forum, I'm beginning to wonder what the qualifications are of some of these "therapists". In some regions at least, "therapist" and "counselor" are not protected terms - anyone can call themselves those things (and do serious...

I agree that the behaviour was unacceptable; but I think we need to be very careful how we tread here. In no way is it the person's fault for not leaving. There is a huge power imbalance here.

I feel so protective toward young women and the sexual harassment they endure. I don't experience it anymore myself, but I get so angry when I see it. I feel angry right now about yours, and especially because it has been such a mind f*ck for you.

Do you and sister both have strong startle reflexes in real life, by chance? That's what it feels like to me afterward - like when I've been startled. Not a feeling of terror.

At first glance there doesn't seem to be enough research into it to find corelations but now I have another curiosity, for those who have experienced it: In waking life, do you also have a strong startle reflex? I myself have that going on, to be sure.

Thank-you so very much for sharing that. I'm going to look into it. It's interesting to me also that for you it is "heard" but not "felt".

Maybe not trauma related at all, for me, but curious as to whether other people have experienced this. (I suppose I'm a bit fascinated by sleep anomalies and dreams, as they give a glimpse into that evasive unconscious mind.) You wake up from a "loud" "BANG!" and a sensation of having been hit...

In my country this is sexual assault.

Thank-you very much for the responses. I'm trying to sort out which are human and which are computer generated. For the first time in my life I am considering trauma therapy, possibly because not doing it has at this point become more painful than the potential pain of facing the trauma. I'm...