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My mother had asked me to sort out some practical care for her. I found a well respected agency, but she rejected it as too costly. I was cross and said I thought she was making a mistake. She went on at length about why won't I just be nice to her. Eventually I cracked and told her why...

I think it's incredibly unlikely a GP would refer me to a specialist for so routine a condition. I think you are in the US, and I understand that you can refer yourself there, but in the NHS a GP gatekeeps secondary level care. The thyroid deficiency was identified througha blood test...

I told my therapist that recently I wasn't thinking entirely rationally, and one example I gave was my thyroxine. I found myself thinking I shouldn't re-order them, because I didn't need them and was making a nuisance of myself at the doctors by asking. Then I thought I should just stop taking...

I'm not sure how to answer you now, because I can hear you are in pain, and want someone to support you through that pain. So it may not be the time to turn it back to you. What safety planning or skills work have you done, with T's or by yourself? I've read all your recent posts, but I wasn't...

Usual caveats - I'm seeing your situation through my eyes, so ignore this if I'm wildly off-track and actually writing to myself. It seems to me that you are struggling with a set of things that have restricted my ability to engage with therapy, and to move on. I've had to conclude that...

Yes, I took my pandas. Not for comfort, but because they are an important part of my support system, and give me really good advice. I thought they should meet each other. T often asks after them, and says she loves the main one.

I identified myself as Dismissive -avoidant in attachment several years ago, and had it confirmed professionally, though the psychologist who was doing diagnostic testing said he hadn't intended to mention it to me, until I raised it. In practical terms it means that reading was so disturbing...

I see my mother as little as possible. People who push for more contact usually have no idea how much harm parents can do.

Therapy is the place where you can decide how fast things go. You are in control. I think part of the process is learning to take control and choose what is good for you. Had you noticed the link between the two sets of external expectations?

Yes, me too. It was only through therapy that I discovered most people's heads aren't arranged like mine. Structural dissociation makes complete sense to me.

Yes and no. In terms of symptoms, I am less good at managing myself and my mind, so things are more likely to escape and reach the surface when I'm poorly, but if I have a really high temperature then I can't think at all, and I love it. There is no difference in how it impacts my sociability...

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It's not about being physically able to stop it, but whether is is permissible. If the family is set up so that people are not allowed to own their bodies, then it can feel impossible to take control. That is what sets us up to be victims.

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Chewing on my enchiladas takes skill STUVWY

I don't go to a hairdresser any more, but that is more to do with avoiding social situations. I'm not wildly keen on being trapped while someone does things to me either

Really? Adam falls flat-faced like every-time! STAMEN

Oh yes, on more than one level. The simplest is the ordinary social discomfort. I wouldn't talk about sex with anyone else either. T says "This isn't a normal social interaction, so we leave that at the door", but that is easy for her to say and hard for me to do. I can't bring myself to say X...

It's a sunny day, and I watching the shadow silhouettes of two wood pigeons courting made me smile. He advanced to her, bowing and cooing "Liike me, Liiike me", she walked away, he bowed some more and then she turned and they started to bill and coo with each other. Then a confused moving shadow...

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some people's ingenuity demands extensive rewrites BUNDLE