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Friday and Recovery4, I would like to share something with ya'll. I am a cured Bipolar person. I am CURED from the severe racing thoughts and the horrific insomnia that plagued me since I was 11. I was put on disability for severe, intractable medication resistant Bipolar I with psychotic...

Congrats to everyone who is able to stop. Godspeed to all of you. I started drinking coffee at 14, and although I have quit for a couple weeks here and there, this is the longest stretch ever. Anxiety is hugely reduced, but I have and overwhelming sense of sadness just sitting there in the post...

Yes, it is a very strong substance and for a lot of people...it will make sick as hell for a while.

I am sure a lot of us are heavy coffee drinkers/ caffeine consumers. Because I have so many food allergies, I found out that the 5-7 cup habit was destroying my thyroid...so I had to disengage from yet another attachment. Within 3 weeks, life long thyroid issues disappeared. Yes, the physical...

Ditto. It is exactly like physical therapy. It is literally recovering from a brain injury.

Wow, Shimmerz, you really hit the nail on the head. Thanks so much. I mean, is this not the tenants of Buddhism? Isn't this what monks meditate and train for years for? Sure, a future is there, cause time does pass. But like you, I cannot visualize anything, because everything has disappeared...

Arfie, yes entrapment. I will not be tied down. But this kinda transcend it. For autoimmune reasons, I had to cut out my coffee with milk habit several weeks ago. I went to drinking 5+ cups to zero caffeine. Yes, I went through the withdrawals, but I was surprised I was not craving it at all...

Thanks for your response, Spider. I know part of it is healthy, but I think I have somehow overshot it. I am grounded. I am certainly not delusional. I have done a lot of really focused therapy and work on myself. I feel very fortunate for the first time in 42 years. But it is odd. Yes, any...

Hey guys, I want to let you know how much I appreciate this forum. Thank you! This is a mechanical, logistical issue that I find bizarre. I need your input, please. Went to this bitchin' Halloween party. The first in my life. My friend, who is a gifted PTSD therapist who worked at San Quintin...

I noticed I would feel ashamed when I let my boundaries be violated. If you have hard core boundaries, and stick with them no matter what haters start hating, then you may find shame naturally dissipates after a few months.

Thanks much Airdale. Well, depending on the person, or situation, probably either. From my prospective, a big difference that I have with most other people is the fact it takes me a long,long time to digest heavy emotionally laden content. Like a lot of folks here, it comes on as a Tsunami and...

I have recently been through a ridiculous situation with a huge pile of Epic Bags of Dicks (EBoD) people who tried ruining my life (fat chance!). It is not like the jacked up like threatening incidences I have had in the past, but it was expensive and traumatic. I really watched myself during...

This is a great thread! Yes, add me to the ego and identity disintegration stuff that everybody else describes. To me, sticking my head in the Bucket O' Truth (BoT) and trying to piece together a narrative about myself is difficult. It is difficult because my reality seems disorganized. I cannot...

Hey amigos! I wanted to once again thank you for all of your love and wisdom. I am working my butt off healing, and I wanted to share some interesting insights I have gained during this process. 1. I now like myself and I protect my assets. Like a lot of people here, I hated myself, and this is...

Wow, I feel for all of you guys. I am trying to solve this issue myself. I think it is due to the fact that when we brought up concerns as kids, we were shut down. What I am doing to break this habit is to stay grounded enough to feel my emotions during a current problem, and to state my...

Even better there are free courses, youtube CNVC.org, this is the creator of non violent communication. NVC is a way of communicating that increases the odds you are heard and that you get your needs meet. Now, when a person is unable to hear you with this technique, RUN. This person is bad...

Wow, THANKS so much for sharing. This should be a sticky! Wonderful. Bravo!

OH Sweetheart! Boy, do I understand what it's like to the the world's scapegoat. It sounds like you and I could have been twins....but I am older than you, and I have figured out a few tricks. First develop boundaries. Honey, you have to be around safe people. Weed out the dysfunctional ones...

To me, the feelings you speak of seem grown up and mature. It appears you have gotten to the level of compassionate detachment. You are not a fool. I am sure you are a blessing to many, who can actually receive and reciprocate empathy you give. I am sure you know that the key to self...

After being stonewalled a year from my dysregulated shitty brother, with zero response to 4 emails and phone calls, I wrote him a letter officially terminating our relationship, telling him what he did, and told him I loved him and wished the best. It was cut in my mind like a beheading after...

Will, my experience in the mental health sector has been nightmarish, and the source of a lot of trauma. It tore me way down. And I was totally responsible for meeting appointment, etc. For me, the system failed. So I do not seek help in the traditional medical sector, unless I have not other...

Wow you guys are just precious here! I have more education than my family.

Well, I could care less what other people think. Basically my good friends know I cannot tolerate high adrenaline situations. If I say I am uncomfortable with a situation in the most compassionate, non threatening way, then my true friends will respect that. I bring a lot to the table in my...

Thanks much Solera! And I have been through exactly what you are saying. I pounded into habit nonviolent communication techniques. "I" statements and S.E.T. strategy, among others. Being a geek, I wanted to increase the odds of being heard. Really expressing desire to resolve the situation, and...

Trundle...I don't call it isolation, I call it solitude and peace and quiet. As I developed my core, I find that I like quiet time. It frees up precious energy to cultivate better relationships. A lot like dating, most will be duds, and if you stay with the duds, you decrease the odds of...