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So I was spending Fourth of July with my dad and his family (ie him, his wife and my two little half brothers). Things were going fine until my dad made a comment indirectly related to my weight. He told my little brother, "Your sister will eat everything in sight." That stung. It brought back a...

When I talked to my doctor about going off my medications, it was because I was graduating university, wouldn't have access to him as before, didn't have a job lined up, didn't know where my income was going to come from, and the last thing I wanted was to have to go off my medications without...

At the urging of a good friend of mine, I asked my therapist how I can have good dreams, not just not have nightmares. She suggested something she referred to as "sleep hygiene." She suggested a glass of milk and maybe a cookie, told me to wait 20 minutes between getting off my computer and...

Even if you have nothing to say in response, I think you should read this anyway as there is a valuable lesson to be learned from it. So, this guy has the hots for me. He's stopped me a couple times as we cross paths rather frequently on the campus although we don't actually have any classes...

So, I had a rough time at art therapy group last night. It's difficult to explain, but I left feeling extremely tense with sweaty palms and that tight, trapped feeling in my head. I went back to my room in the hopes that I could find a way to calm myself down, but no such luck. Since I...

So I've sprained my ankle. No, it wasn't at the gym, while riding a horse, while hiking up a mountain, it wasn't even a fall persay. I slipped down the stairs. Slipped!!! I mean, it could've at least been something a little more dignified. But no, I got stupid, was paying more attention to...

Good grief. I'm so irritated right now. I got an email from my professor yesterday saying he "needed me to come see him" over something that was "kind of urgent." I started flipping out as I often do when I get an indication something's wrong but I don't exactly what it is. I called him right...

Please excuse me while I unload. So, my mother called me today and told me my grandfather, her father, passed away. She kept her very matter of fact, calm, in control of things tone the whole time. I'm not the type of person who will have a huge emotional reaction to something like that. It...

Okay, so it's official now. I'm no longer a virgin. :oops: Trouble is, my first time was with a guy who has a girlfriend. He insists to me that it's a casual and open relationship. Though intuitively it would make more sense to call it an open rather than casual relationship. The thing is he...

My brother doesn't love me anymore. If he does, he's doing a good job of hiding it. My relationship is not the same with him anymore, it hasn't been since he and his girlfriend got married, or at least had a legal union of some kind. I feel like she took him away from me, just like my stepmother...

So, I'm torn. When I return to college in the fall, I will be resuming therapy at the Wellness Center there. I am grappling about who I want to see. In theory I could see anyone I wanted to, but really I'm faced with two choices. I could just call in and ask for an appointment which would...

So, my doctor left a written perscription for me at my university Wellness Center that I never got the chance to pick up before going home. I had enough to tide me over for a couple months but ran out on the Fourth. Actually I ran out of the Zoloft on the third and the Wellbutrin on the fourth...

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...

I'm kind of freaking out. Call me a tree hugging hippie girl, but this sent me over the edge. My mother wanted me to go out and collect duck eggs from the pen. There were two in particular she wanted me to get because she was worried they were developing into duckings. In fact she knew they...

Figures this would happen during the summer when I'm not in therapy. Just my luck. It's excruciating to write this because of the shame I feel, but I feel like I need to get it out. So, as I mentioned in another thread, I recently got done with the Spring semester, and the end of the year was...

So today is that day I moved out of my dorm to go home, and everything that could've gone wrong did go wrong. I got up early to do a little more cleaning and move the rest of my stuff to storage. I went to go take out the garbage, and as I went to go back inside, I looked down and saw that my...

:coffee: Well, I survived finals week. It was rough, very rough. It was a vicious cycle in that the stress of it all made it difficult to concentrate. I just submitted my term paper this afternoon for my last class. I had stayed up the night before to try to finish it ahead of time. However I...

I'm listening to a song, sung by the Irish group Westlife, that is taking me back to that day when I was three years old. I was three when my parents divorced. Before that, my dad left often to travel for work. I didn't like it when he left, but I always knew that at least he was going to come...

As I struggle away at college and battle financial woes, I sometimes wonder, where does one draw the line between resilience as a positive thing and beating a dead horse? I keep trying, coming back each semester, try to get as many hours of work in as I can, apply for all sorts of scholarships...

Hi everyone. So, big news! The U.S, U.K, France, and other members of the U.N have officially sent their militaries to Libya and are conducting airstrikes against Gaddafi's forces. Naturally, plenty of people and countries have already come out with their criticisms, but what do you guys think...

I can feel it, that dark, sadistic demon is creeping up from inside of me again. I just made a complete and total idiot of myself at work by trying to help with something when I really had no clue what I was doing. Everybody was nice about it but I was still absolutely mortified and felt even...

This is something that has been extremely challenging for me. My therapist and I tried working on it, but that didn't last very long. I think she (my therapist) didn't push it because she thought is was too difficult for me to talk about. I thought working with a female therapist would help with...

Please excuse me for a moment while I wallow in self pity. So, I was an International Relations major here at college right? But I was doing very poorly at that. So I switched to Psychology. Well...today I met with one of my professors with whom I am/was taking a very important psychology...

So, I just had my monthly meeting with my psychiatrist who manages my medication. I mentioned to him that I've been frustrated by the way PTSD affects my memory and concentration. He told me he wants me to be doing "really well" and suggested I start on Wellbutrin. I've been working with him for...

Hi everyone. I'm new to this forum and will not deny I'm a bit aprehensive about it. I'm a 21 year old college student who got diagnosed about a year and a half ago. I was studying International Relations but recently switched to Psychology. I love learning foreign languages and studying...