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Unfortunately there are a lot of people out there who are very bitter after a divorce and/or are desperate for the upper hand in custody battles. As a result they will make false accusations at their ex-spouses, even ones as extreme as rape and molestation. This, I believe, is largely why the...

You've got an awful lot going on. It sounds like even with all that you are finding time to take care of yourself. That's awesome! Kudos to you :tup:! What exactly is it you want advice for? Are you just wondering how to contend with your busy schedule and manage PTSD?

I love that movie :D Welcome to the forum!

You sound a lot like me the first time I tried to kill myself. It felt like everytime I'd managed to pull myself out of a hole there was another one to fall into. There was no other means of escape. My life was a very tragic story, and, for a while, I was very angry about it. Trouble was, as I...

Sounds a lot like something I wrote in my diary when I was feeling really down and wondering why I should keep living. Several months later I read that entry and wondered, "What the hell was going through my head?" It's always easy to question our own worth, not so much for other people...

Are you looking for a new job because you don't feel like you're useful in your current job? I'm not sure I follow you.

It is an odd sort of impulse that many of us experience. I self injured for four years and even though I didn't have suicidal feelings, I got a strange desire to cut my wrist. To this day I have no idea where it came from. My best advice is to redirect the impulse somehow instead of trying to...

I had to create some distance between my father and myself before I was ready to reach out and start a new relationship with him. You have to be your own priority here and it sounds like you are making a very good decision by setting healthy boundaries between him and yourself. You are your own...

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Go for it

Nope, I haven't even read that thread.

Let it be understood, this is not a hypothetical scenario. This unfortunately is something that did occur. It has also been a source of contemplation for me for years. A Holocaust survivor gives an account of how she escaped imprisonment. She and a group of other Jewish people hid in the...

Exercise. That is a very good way to relieve stress and tension. Go to the gym, or if you can't do that, do push ups and sit ups until you can't do anymore. Excercise does cause chemical changes in the brain that allow you to relax. The intrusive thoughts you are describing are a very common...

You have support, remember that. You have the union representative who has been guiding you along. No matter how it turns out, you should be immensely proud of the fact that you stood up for yourself. Nothing this woman did has anything to do with you and everything to do with her and her...

I'm not a neurologist by any means. However, my mother and I have had conversations about things like this. My stepfather's mother developed dementia (Alzheimers, Parkinson, whatever you want to call it) several years ago. She was in and out of different housing arrangements because she would be...

I think of it as recovering from drug or alcohol abuse, at least in the way some people describe it. You are never not an addict anymore, you are always a recovering addict. Even after you've acheived sobriety, it is something that still has to habitually be managed and dealt with. Personally, I...

What you dealt with from her was totally unacceptable. There's no reason for you to tolerate that kind of treatment from anyone, especially a professional. I really hope your civilian T is more civilized (no pun intended). Counselors like her are the reason that I started specifically requesting...

My psychaitrist is only available one day a week at my university Wellness Center. It was rough one semester because he was only available on Tuesday and I had class from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm and then work after that. What I did was make my appointments with my psychaitrist a priority. I skipped...

Thank you so much for sharing. My horses are a great source of comfort and joy for me also. I love the story about how you rescued Karma. It would seem to me like helping a horse like him work through his mistrust of people would indirectly help one work through their own trust issues.

My thoughts? You are a very fortunate person. You have a T who sincerely has your best interests at heart and wants you to heal and be happy. I don't believe he would invest that kind of energy into you if he didn't think that you are fully capable of become a whole, healthy, and happy person...

Gosh, that had to have been so awful to go through. I bet you're still felling the after effects. Honestly I've never even heard of the movie Speak. I did however watch one movie recently, The Black Swan, that was very triggering for me. The basic plotline is that a perfectionist (like eating...

I'm on Zoloft too. I think you were wise for chosing something that you know has worked for you before. I was highly hesitant to go back on medications as well. For me it wasn't even just a matter of the meds themselves, it was all the memories and emotions surrounding them. My family made it...

I'm so sorry you had to go through that. Having to be hospitalized is an all around crummy situation, nobody likes going there. I describe it to people as a cross between one of the best experiences and the absolute worst experience of my life. I am very glad someone was looking out for you...

Honestly your chances of finding a competent therapist from the civilian pool are just as good as finding one from the military pool. A professional being a specialist in something isn't necessarily a good thing because sometimes specialists will lump their patients into one specifically defined...

It sounds like you've made some great progress with you current therapist. View this gap in therapy as an opportunity to exercise you new tools and become more practiced at using them. This is a chance for you to either lose what you've gained with your T or reinforce it, the choice is yours...