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The years are nothing now. Please don't worry about them. I know you will but really there is no need to. You are young and vibrant...well educated and know what you are doing. I used to look at that all the time worrying about years passing and time going by. It's nonsense. Stay confident and...

I don't understand what your thread is about. Do you want to talk about anger or not? I know I could talk about it all day long but I don't have to, because I know I have a limit and I believe in that limit. You must have believed in that limit as well since you don't want to focus on certain...

Does it really get better? I've been trying everything everyone has recommended and nothing has helped me. I hate mirrors and anything to do with the naked body. Showering is out of the question. How do you shower when you can't be naked or even close to naked? I wear flip flops in the shower...

I didn't realize England was so far behind the times. I thought they were more progressive with their health care. I guess living in the US and them trying to form it after the English health system, I thought it was supposed to be the best. I don't understand why you can't just tell them that...

I'm sorry you you are feeling so badly. I have had some bad side effects from meds, but I don't know what is what sometimes. I have been told I'm anemic, that's why I've been fainting, but I know there's something to do with the meds. I don't trust the docs at all. I hope you get the treatment...

I'm sorry you are having such a rough time. I can relate with the shower. I don't understand it myself, but I get short of breath and uptight so much when I step into a shower. So much so, that I stopped showering. I only shower now when I absolutely need to. I usually have to get in about once...

I'm sorry you had to deal with that horrible therapist! I've had some bad ones too. SHe sounds miserable and shouldn't be practicing. Please don't let this stop you from seeing other therapists. I know how it works. I stopped trusting all therapists, and it didn't help me at all. There are some...

I guess I relate in some ways, or I want to relate. Mine was different because it was my childhood and it was my Aunt's son. I still see her regularly now after a long time of not seeing her. I felt very awkward, because I didn't think she believed me about her son doing those things to me. She...

I'm glad it was just anxiety. I except the apology as well. It's obvious the reasons we write with the emphasis of getting you to the hospital is because we want you to stay alive. I hope you still take it seriously the next time, if there is a next time, because you never know if it is a heart...

My group I go to must chuckle a bit...because I give my positive information of the week if I showered or not, and how many times. I'm sure they are happy when I said I did!

You are totally right! That's my problem. I am ALWAYS in rational mind. I feel like I relate so much better to the characters on shows like BONES or Big Bang Theory (SHeldon). I get them. I take everything at face value and go over it in my mind as if it were as it seems it should be. I decipher...

Exactly...we wouldn't judge them like we would ourselves, right? I think that's the big difference. My friend is a trauma survivor, and a teacher. She tells me about things and how she judges herself instead of the way she judges the people there today. It's completely uneven and not even...

I wish I knew what to tell you. I'm still new to this. I'm trying to figure it myself. My therapist just went on vacation and I have no idea what to talk to her about. I should know but I really don't trust anyone anymore. I like this one a lot. She seems different. I am afraid though. I never...

That is great! You are quite true! I think that is what I fall back on at all times. I try to think my way out of everything. I remember how things were when I was at certain times of my life and I think that I know what I was doing at that time. Of course a 12 year old has no real perspective...

I hate that word too. I don't know how to make it sound any better. Either rape or incest sounds horrible, but incest just sounds more disgusting to me for some reason. I don't really know why it just sends shivers up my spine. I mean both happened to me but "incest" is the word that really...

Arfie I can see this in me. I appreciate the post. Definitely the trust issues and resistance as well as the others. I am very stubborn, and as they've told me, has been a detriment in many ways recently. I try and relate what they are telling me to what I've learned and I can't put myself in...

I think I relate but in a different way. I used it as an extreme version of self injury whenever I got injured. I was injured a lot because I played college sports and was in the military. I broke my leg in college and I used to hammer the cast to make it hurt more after I knew it was broken. In...

I think I'm a mirror image of you. I only shower when absolutely necessary. I'm glad you wrote this post. I have a huge problem with my self identity. I hate myself for one thing and don't look in mirrors. I hate my body so don't care what others think or how bad I smell. I put a hat on...

I am wondering if other people worked in jobs where they had to deal with people who had PTSD and psychological illnesses and were supposed to help those people or interact with them in any way? I worked in a job where I was trained in psychological illnesses and how to deal with people that I...

Its very hard. Sometimes I distract myself by talking to friends that know I self injure on the phone. I try anything to distract myself. It's such an addiction and difficult to overcome.

If he is in serious distress the way to get him in sooner is to have him call the crisis line. They will have him talk to a suicide prevention coordinator within the next business day. That person can then set him up immediately with help. They have a lot of pull. I know because I have used it...

I can relate as well, and though I don't cut typically, I do self injure in other ways. I understand the intense need to do this and I do hope you feel better soon.

That doesn't sound right or professional to me at all, yet I am so far back in the pecking order of the Psychiatric world. I don't understand why she needs to tell you anything at all about how you affected her. That should not happen! It makes me angry to think she put that on you when you are...

Thanks fyredrift23. I think the Dr was full of herself because she worked at this renown institution. She intimidated people, and intimidated me. I finally did find one Psychiatrist that I am seeing in a different institution (outpatient), who has not had that attitude like she did. I am trying...

I think I was so affected in a negative way by the words of the Dr because I hadn't had any trauma therapy before and she was the head Trauma Dr for the hospital. She ran the program and had done so for a couple decades. The hospital is also the number one psychiatric hospital in the country...