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Thanks for the kind interest and feedback, Odd that I've never come across DDNOS before and have no knowledge of it. DID I've pondered but haven't strictly related to. Early on my choice to embrace process addiction manifest as free ranging social science reading propped up a weak ego and weak...

Hello, Short response to faraway here. I too find excessive contact hugely draining, whereas one of the work roles I filled was that of a Teen Librarian in a very conservative community. If anything, the close-in exposure to those who extolled in their own reasoned but also distinctly...

Thanks, Definitely from hard-won experience it seems impossible to meaningfully learn about interpersonal dynamics and evolve absent the blood and sweat presence of others. Too frequently I feel like an amateur aircraft wreck investigator discerning the cause and causes of many a failure...

Thank you for the kind responses afforded, Without droning on as is my established habit, I mourn the lost time and opportunities across what might otherwise have been at least some nice relations, some memorable moments across twenty years-plus of heterosexual relations not had. That time is...

Hello everyone, Hard really at present to proceed ahead with emotional re-experiencing and connection manifest in the context of real human relationships for I have about none. My past relationships have been spent, what flaccid and deeply-damaged relations with family scarcely exist...

Hello, (I'm not professional help, but rather a sufferer) Though I haven't analogous wartime experiences to strictly compare, in my experience rooted in emotional abuse and neglect one can, with application to understanding the dynamic at play with P.T.S.D., look forward to a lessening of...

Hello, I'm largely alone with my Complex P.T.S.D. rooted mostly emotional isolation and abuse legacies difficult to contain. I can however seek materials in the form of books and articles regarding underlying issues, and be so-doing, endeavor in the direction of reasoned and informed...

Hello and welcome to the forum, (Recognize that I'm NOT professional help, but rather a sufferer) What is especially hard about childhood emotional abuse is that inputs of love and support that parents and those who make up our social network during sensitive years effectively don't do their...

Hello, I'm not sure what I will articulate here can or will be construed as outright abuse, but I have to try in measure to articulate what atypical legacies I live with and perceive the world through. Some of this will read like an art house film script, and nothing - nothing I read seems to...

Hello and welcome to the forum, (...a caveat here, in that I am not professional help but rather a sufferer) It's quite common for many of us to protectively dissociate for experience of hostile and seemingly inescapable environments. At a basic level and in keeping with our need to protect...

Trauma-colored experiences of a sexual nature define the perceptions of many a poster here. The chaos and inner disorder felt for power imbalances in relations with those close, those who ought to have protected us, mixed with the fact that we are each sexual beings with needs and desires...

Hello, Ideas really even if no outright help is possible. I imagine I find certain literatures compelling on the basis of what seems a shared experience. I don't believe I'll ever feel less, or certainly ever sense less - but there is something quite positive to say for informing perceptions...

Situated in southeastern Michigan, curious if you will. M.

Greetings, It is bewildering, it is scary. Present-day life experiences and markers trigger a flood of recall and unsettling partial memories of trauma are doubtlessly hitting you with full-force now, and as unbearable as it is and seems - this is the stuff of P.T.S.D. and better life quality...

I suspect for most of us that the way forward is to embrace the concept of found family; i.e. those not of blood origin that can satisfy our reasoned and legitimate need to belong to something, to honor ourselves, to afford love and to receive it even as our own families have fallen short in...

Greetings, Hoping indeed to be consistent with what has already been articulated well by others, personal boundary issues underlie much of what what can be handled and understood by others, while it is typical and sometimes healthy to drawn relationships down if they are premised upon personal...

Greetings, I don't know if he reads or can be discreetly nudged to apply himself in the direction of books that might illuminate aspects of what is a shared experience many veterans live with, but think about the following two titles (and a web document) if nothing else. Concious that little...

Greetings, Perhaps something else to add and consider. For being in a relationship whereby my then significant other revealed telltale signs of childhood and teen trauma involving emotional abandonment and what was likely a sexual assault, something had to be negotiated to ensure that matters...

Greetings, I imagine I'm looking for correspondence regarding materials read, coping mechanisms devised, and solace short of overwhelming myself and others for so relating. I've worked as an academic librarian, and while I've gathered much in the way of very fine materials and titles to...

Hello, I'm male, and 43 years of age as this message is being posted. In long possession of a Complex P.T.S.D. diagnosis, although not at all certain how to compress so much into so little space. I have no real desire to expose others to secondary stress for providing analogous recital of...