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Well said. Succinct and exactly all that needs to be said. I think @nursenurse nailed it.. haven't read the rest of replies I think this says it all

You are NEVER responsible for another person's suicide (or attempts). You did what you could and you still took action. You seem like a really good guy and my first gut reaction was to hope that you are ok, not so much her... I feel weirdly compelled to mention that I'm a dyke and not just...

Yay!!!! Do something nice for yourself! you go girl!!! PS sock monkeys help in any situation i think ;p

Hey girl, I was really affected by yur post becuase you and I have a lot in common. Without writing a novel about my crazy ass mother, I'll just say I can relate to the pain of neglect. And to validate you, I have experienced intense physical abuse as a child from my mom, and barely knew my...

This might not be therapy advice, but I live in the hood and have had more crackhead neighbors yell at me than you can imagine so here goes: What if you paid a big scary-looking dude to bang on his door and give him the "if you ever yell at my girl again etc..." and get in his face and scare...

pink floyd and two joints ;p

Wow I love the John Wayne quote and agree with everything @scout86 said... In addition, I would add that you were practicing self-care by knowing what your limits are. That is just plain smart. Maybe we've all seen too many movies and think we need to go into everything all Rambo-style, but...

First off, I want to validate that it's normal to think about this kind of stuff. I can relate to rage; I have had dark thoughts about cops, my father, a male roommate in the past who really stepped a line, etc... It's important to understand what rage is in order to not only "manage" but heal...

Give yourself time girl... I was once told (about forgiving my parents) that anger and hatred is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die. Forgiveness is misunderstood a lot I think. We think of it like giving that horrible person a free-pass but it's not about that. It's about...

What the doctors call "chemical sensitivity" in my opinion is your very developed senses of what is terrible for you (and all humans really). Sorry I know that's random and a little "woo woo", but wow all I could think of was "this woman can't be fooled by monsanto" lol.. I think us so-called...

I agree with what everyone said above... I have a nephew that adores me and he saved my life exactly in this way. He doesn't even know it, but I came so close to killing myself about 6 years ago. It was the thought of what it would do to him that stopped me, nothing else. 6 years later I am...

Oh girl I relate to this sooo much. I keep blaming it on where I live.. I mean, it's mostly me, but I do live in a crazy place. I just want to say welcome and we are here for you!!! This is a great website

I want to reiterate the "be kind to yourself" message from above! Welcome to the forum and I want to send you love and support! Signed, Another Star Trek fan!!

Absolutely!!! Body/mind/emotions are all connected in my opinion. I have kidney stones and I am convinced they were brought on via emotional stress. I now drink a huge jar of water every morning to start, everyone makes fun and calls it my "moonshine" lol because it's that big. Take care of...

I can really relate to this! And I even have a happy ending to tell you... The thing is, I'm a lesbian so we face different challenges in the "dating world" but those voices that say 'no one will ever love me' can happen to anyone regardless of their sexual orientation. I fought that one hard...

UGH! Do you work for Habitat? Sorry to name names, but they made me do three things exactly like this when I worked for them. I cannot state enough how much I hate sleeping over with lame-ass coworkers and not even being able to smoke weed and escape from them (Truth!). I like @Recovery4Me 's...

We are here for you! P.S. cool alien pic!! :)

i heard a corny saying once; there's three types of friends: Friends for a reason, friends for a season, and then there are the lifetime friends. Cherish the lifetimers because they are the most rare. I have also had countless "fairweather friends" too. It hurts because we are always looking...

Wow are you sure going to the funeral is a good idea? I have missed funerals of people I really loved for reasons of money (couldn't afford sudden flights) or reasons of circumstance and for fear of dealing with my family. Although I felt guilty, I had a really good friend tell me "funerals...

The first part of this is always a fight in your/our head between what our abusers tell us and what our intuition tells us. Your father sounds like a typical warped abuser with that "no one ever did anything to you" BS. That is what they always say to deny and hide what they inherently know...

LOL I don't mean to ruin any fantasies! I live in the 'hood' so to speak and worked in the tenderloin in San Francisco for years (as Dave Chapelle said "nothing tender about it").. so my lens is mostly on the violence and poverty. Not surprising since that was my teen years and childhood here...

I think people like us are generally more affected by all the negative and extreme "stuff" in the world than most people. I think it means you are a truly kind hearted person and since people like us are still so wounded inside, outside world stresses can spin us down that spiral. I am not...

You are right and I'll be the first to admit that I am hella paranoid and angry. Teeth gnashing makes me think of the bible and I will have to google that one lol, but I'm probably guilty of it too! It's funny I was just talking to my "body-trauma-worker-guy" about the Bay and he said, "well if...

LOL I know! and for the life of me I can't figure out why people think that. I mean, we are good for weed and gays, but laid back?!! Nope. Not the techies fault either although they don't help lol. The Bay is the only part of CA i have lived in, but I lived in other states too. THe BART track...

that sounds horrible! I am so sorry they did that to you... that is worse than initial rejection I am going through; it must have felt like such a betrayal. I wish I could start a website like ratemyprofessor for psychologists where they could be put on blast for doing things like that...