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Yep, that period of the recovery journey is really rough. No two ways about it - it’s hugely emotional and destabilising. This won’t always be your life. It will get better. I did a lot of therapies over the years, and trauma-focused psychodynamic therapy (talk therapy) has been critical for...

Welcome to the forum. So sorry to hear about your dogs. I lost my best mate myself at the end of last year and it’s still raw. It’s incredible how much joy the little furballs can bring to our lives, and the size of the hole they leave when their time with us ends.

Welcome to the forum - glad you found us. There’s a couple of threads on members’ experiences with Ketamine if that’s helpful (just search for threads with ‘ketamine’ in the title). I trialled a lot of meds when I was early in my healing journey. The one thing I should have done earlier than I...

Welcome to the forum - even though we may not have been the forum you went looking for, hopefully this place is still helpful for your healing. This is particularly awesome. Look forward to being able to celebrate that at the end of the year!!

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It’s 3am. That’s how well I slept last night.

Yep, heaps better. My experience with a number of different models is that they very typically tend to start oversimplifying towards the end of long posts, or longer conversations. The language, though, is a lot better. And the clarity around relevant research is definitely something I...

Hi Coach I typically don’t attach to people. At best, I have ambivalent attachment. But for the most part, I’ve gone through life without deep attachments. I had abusive parents. I did, however, experience a deep attachment with an abusive cult-like figure as a pre-teen. This attachment was...

Welcome to the forum - glad you found us. I think most folks here will relate to this. There are definitely times when we are just surviving, and sometimes barely that. It gets better, though. It gets worth it. And in the meantime, there’s places like this one, where you aren’t alone:)

He’s being ‘avoidant’, clearly. But there’s a shopping list of potential reasons why. He’s referred to alcoholism a number of times, so that’d be an educated guess. But it’s all just guesses. Avoidant attachment is a description of a personality type, it’s not a mental health condition, so it’s...

Welcome to the forum. Sorry you have reason to be here. Yep. Ptsd triggers have that effect. It’s a shit experience to have, and I’m sorry you’re dealing with that.

This is really normal, I think. With or without dissociated parts. When primary caregivers are abusive, kids often grow up associating that sort of treatment with love and safety. I have DID, so I don’t know if this will help for you - but compassion, time, and loads of communication. I...

The weather is as perfect as it gets, and I had an empty beach to enjoy it!

Glad you posted, @littleoc . Sorry it hurts so much, but glad you’re here. And glad you posted.

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Are you the thinking of the Fibonacci sequence? All about spirals, and very cool. But a series of numbers, rather than just one extremely cool number like pi 😎

We’ve made the annual pilgrimage to camp by the beach. Enough space to be together without being particularly near each other, and with an even human:dog ratio to help keep everyone sane!🎄

Welcome to the forum - great to have you here☺️

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I work with dogs, and I can guarantee you this is not true. And I definitely hear the pain being expressed in this thread. There are certain groups of the human race that trigger the shit out of me and I get pretty irrational pretty damn quick, and it’s not all entirely undeserved. But…men are...

Welcome to the forum, @Ravenclaw50 😊 With all the hypervigilance stuff that goes on with having ptsd, noisy neighbours can be particularly stressful. Finding ways to empty out that stress cup, as often and effectively as possible, has been absolutely critical to my own sanity when living in...

Welcome to the community, Charlee😊

Maybe instead of trying therapy again, you could reframe that as seeing someone who could help you how to have more meaningful and rewarding relationships?