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not to change the subject, but has anyone tried EMDR treatment for PTSD?

Well I believe people whoever they are, are always projecting their feelings, their thoughts, their ideas, their perceptions, when you have poor or non existent boundaries, meaning, you know what your feelings are, you know and are in touch with your own thoughts, sense of self, sense of...

It's 2:21 am here, and I understand the restlessness, I hide my true self within, and project this false self or false image, and it gets tiring let me tell you, in a way it's isolation and just being completely shut down emotionally, disengaged, uninterested in life in general, angry, pissed...

Sounds so negative, anything on the bright side of life, working in your favor? Any positive and fulfilling experiences or engagements with human beings? There's certainly two sides of the coin in your situation of course you can chose to keep looking and focusing on the negative side of course...

I heard you, sounds like your minds made up

Shut down mode, thanks for sharing that, my girlfriend is filippino and the other night we went to her friends house for a party, I set on the sofa in the corner and was exactly that in shut down mode, but I just never knew that's what people call it. Of course apart of it comes from the...

I've felt angry most of my life, violence use to be my means of creating boundaries, people seem to respect someone they fear. But after nearly killing a man at age 18, I became passive for the most part and have put up with alot of people's shit over the years, violence often creates just as...

Your just sounds like the whole situation would be exhausting to you, both mentally, emotionally, spiritually, and it doesn't sound like you have a partner, but rather a patient/therapist relationship of some sick form, which is the last thing you need, and maybe the long term commitment to the...

Thanks for your share, im new here as well, and although tragic to read of people's horrors and suffering, it's nice to know I'm not alone with some of these humiliating and painful experiences

Thanks for sharing your horrific experiences, as a kid, my own mother nearly murdered me on several occassions from age forward, until I was large enough at age 13 to fight back, I never had suicidal thoughts but I did have homicidal thoughts of killing her and freeing myself of her torture and...

First things first, give yourself time, isolation I think is created from external threat or danger, and feeling detached or cut off, or as if there's no where on the planet where you belong, which is mostly BS within our minds but we believe it strongly non the less, it's toxic poison in our...

for me its when I feel paralyzed in fear and create this false self, or this actor, this actor, puts on a smile while my true self is living in terror, it's going through the motions without any true passion for living, it's becoming completely withdrawn from life, it's turning inward instead of...

Thank you for your sharing this situation, over the past couple of weeks I've also gone through this state of anxiety, in fact visiting a friend the other day I felt as if I was going to have a complete anxiety attack without any due reason or logic, can't explain it really. I was the same way...

Try to go horse back riding, get into the mountains, break out of your daily cycle and routine that's smothering you, write things out, go to the beach if it's close by,

My mother nearly murdered me when I was 8 years old and it took three years in recovery to slowly dig up these old repressed memories that I'd tried to forget, however, those early life experiences which occur during development effect the direction and course of the rest of our lives, Denial is...

It may be to late already, but you could get in your car and go to a nice hotel and stay there for a while, relax by the pool or hot tub, meet new people that bring positive influence into your life, instead of keeping all the problematic people in your life. What you have to do, above all else...

Hello, If you don't have family, consider us here your family, I've struggled for years myself with this whole meaning of life, and like you something to believe in. Everything in life seems to be in a constant state of change, and what once was important or of value to us with time, seems to...

Hello, Dude, pull your head out of your ass man, your still alive, make the most of it

Good morning, Good to read everyones post, i work on a fishing boat and go out in the ocean for a month at a time, just came to port a couple days ago. The isolation of being out at sea for long periods of time gets to you have a while. I read the book about developmental trauma and found alot...

self pity, an attitude of resignation and absolute denial, are all familiar ground to me, but I'm wanting freedom from these behaviors, I stopped drinking in 2008 and wanted to believe life would be more meaningful sober than drunk, I've been reading PTSD literature and was advised to find some...

Concerning repressed memories, my experience with that, began about three years into being in AA and recovery, working the steps and slowly some extremely painful memories which I thought I'd forgot started surfacing, the memories shed alot of light on how I interpreted the world and why I...

Hello, I'm new to this forum, but have been reading some books about PTSD and one of their suggestions was finding online forums like this one and try to connect. I'm amazed and how well you all can describe or articulate yourselves, Alot of the way's I feel or feel put together, you guys...