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In the same way that pulling a child's pants down and even being touched there at the Dr's or being administered a suppository isn't causing trauma. Children don't have that inherent understanding of "private area" that you claim they have. A lot of things can be uncomfortable but that doesn't...

Other. I'm generally a very very private person when it comes to anything personal. I hardly even share really personal stuff with people closest to me, including my husband. I most definitely would not share any of that with some random other person I have to have some sort of interaction with...

It's really really common to wake up between 3-4 at night for many many people, with and without PTSD (or other mental disorders). From what I understand (when I researched it a long while back) it has something to do with our hardcoded circadian rhythms and nightly metabolism. I've woken up...

I didn't read the actual paper, but to me it at had a strong feel of psychology disconnected from biology. That's decades worth backwards. The (interdisciplinary-defaulted) biologist in me is very skeptical. Very very skeptical.

Memories are one thing. The parasympatric reactivity of the reptilian part of out brain is another. I don't think creating an even larger disconnect between the two would be in any way helpful.

When you know the night-time flight schedule by heart, at which time the neighborhood roosters wake up, and how surprisingly much traffic is still going on in your suburban neighborhood in the middle of the night.

Nah. Plain BS. Children have to strip down in all kinds of circumstances (ever been to the doctor's? School entrance physical?). Heck, most young children'd run around butt nacked all the time if they'd could without even a second thought. If anything, it's cultural because there are some...

Just trying again in case it was missed by y'all last time 😇

While I patiently wait for more brilliant Friday insights 😎 ... vvv I already wanted to get back re this first feedback. I personally prefer the ICD definition over the DSM-5 because I think it's more real-life, while the DSM is very restrictive in what they consider 'qualifying trauma', that...

Has anyone read this book by any chance? I listened to the NPR review on my commute the other day and it really got my attention. I really connected with the writing style and I am a graduate student/in academia myself. But I'm not in the humanities so I was wondering if it might be too...

I keep wondering how one is to distinguish between actual trauma (that may or may not cause PTSD) or something that's merely been an "unfortunate event" in life. I know the criteria for trauma in the DSM-5 are pretty concrete. The ICD-10 is more vague: "The patient must have been exposed to a...

Hope. The dichotomy of hope is something I absolutely can't handle. It keeps you going and yet has this immense potential to destroy you. Again and again. And I detest that it shows up no matter what as an uninvited guest, no matter how hard you try to not. Other emotions for most parts I can...

Thanks, Friday. This has become a little bit of a pet peeve of mine as there seems to be a trend on social media where more and more people talk about having "night terrors" while it's obvious they refer to nightmares. I guess it's the attempt to emphasize just how bad the nightmares are - while...

This is exactly what one of my local friends posted in her stories the other day 😍 😂 Not that we haven't had any snow in Hawaiʻi this winter ... 😉 Maybe she's just fed up with all the US drama or she wanted to go skiing without being pestered by her sister (who could blame her?) Iceland...

Kind of extending on what Friday wrote and which is a major problem with self-diagnosis ... and this is in absolutely no way meant to diminish your struggles because I'm certain they are very very real and so is the pain. You quite confidently and determinately talk about quite a number of...

Yeah, I've been on that same soap box during our last session (and not for the first time). After doing the PHQ9 T commented on how my depression score is lower than usual, has actually not been that low for months and months, and asked me whether this is also how I feel, whether I feel/felt...

I have to do PHQ9 and GAD-7 before each appointment (my clinic/insurance asks to do these every 14 days, and I have therapy every other week). I find them ... stupid. Not so much unsettling, just...pointless. PHQ9 consistently puts me in the "depression" category, actually caused my official...

I don't believe in a "purpose in life". It's a really strange concept to me. First and foremost we exist because our genes need means to reproduce and not go extinct. I didn't choose to be born. And I haven't been born to "fulfill" some sort of "purpose". I'm not religious and I don't belief in...

Yeah, not a big fan of puppy pads either, particularly with a lab pup. In my home country no one uses puppy pads and you have enough experience and a plan layed out, so I'm confident you can make it work. Maybe if you have go back to work before pupper can hold its bladder for a solid 8-9h...

THANK YOU for clarifying that you have lab puppy experience @lostforgottensoul because I was gonna strongly second Justmehere's concerns and hinted at my concerns about raising a puppy, and a lab puppy that is, for someone who has PTSD and mobility issues in my previous post. Great that you do...

So, this isn't necessarily a PTSD question as I don't have PTSD surrounding this - so @mods if you think it belongs into the "other disorders" subforum, please move. But I wasn't completely sure where to put it and thought maybe some of you might have some experience with this regardless (just...

Hi, sorry your car situation got in the way of getting a puppy from the first breeder. Here are my honest thoughts and I hope you don't take them personal, it's just a topic I generally am very passionate about. (just quick and dirty, might write more, later. Head is very much not quite...

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Glad you were able to get to an agreement that works for you both (more or less ;) ). Consindering all the problems with long wait lists and such in the UK, I'm genuinely glad you came to this conclusion, even if right now it doesn't feel like you have PTSD. But that might change again and...

While I do share your sentiments, I'm also genuinely curious how that's gonna play out. Biden is Catholic -- and pro-abortion (amongst other things readily deemed "un-Christian" by some; yes yes I know, technically he's not pro-abortion, he's pro-choice). Among all the various Christians I've...