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I have a lot of difficulty taking care of personal hygeine too--usually I don't shower until I feel so gross that I'm too uncomfortable to sleep, or too embarassed to go to class like that. I do the whole running the tap thing too (when I'm in public and someone is in the stall--if they actually...

I've been really satisfied with BetterHelp so far, they matched me with someone who has been really helpful and their customer service is very polite and quick to reply. I wish they had some kind of timezone or schedule matching as part of the questions they ask though; live chat only works if...

Yes, absolutely. Mine were as regular as clockwork for years, but completely stopped for six months after I was sexually assaulted and have fluctuated with my stress levels since then. There are other things that can cause this too, like thyroid or other hormone problems, or over-excercising...

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Also Hope: hope that if I keep trying I can make the world a little better, and a little safer, or at least lay the foundation for someone else to build that work on. Curiosity: There is so much that I want to learn, understand, build, teach. When I'm happy I feel like a child, I feel free to...

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Thanks! The Flashbacks and Dissociation section was one of the first areas I hit up, but I wasn't sure because a lot of people were talking about alters and some other stuff that doesn't seem to be the case for me.

Pretty regularly (like multiple times per conversation) I will sort of "check out" and go on this sort of autopilot where I see someone talking, I hear the noises that are coming out of their mouth, but the sounds don't register as having any meaning (I'm listening but I can't decipher any words...

@FridayJones Oh my goodness, I need these so much! :O I get exactly the same problem, especially if there is more than one loud noise happening at the same time!

I've had eczema my whole life and never tracked down what was causing it (if anything other than stress). Try not to scratch or pick at it, that makes it worse and can leave scars (I say hypocritically as I've been scratching all day...oh well).

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I'm really feeling like that is something I need. If nothing else I need to find a counselor/therapist I can talk to in the long term and actually discuss the full situation with rather than being rushed through the school's system to another band-aid solution.

Welp I pretty much skimmed your post and went off on my own thing without really answering the question. ^^; As far as specifically child abuse goes, my biological parents were not what I would consider abusive (I did get spanked pretty regularly, but never without reason and never when they...

That is something I have been puzzling over for a while now, because I definitely had some major emotional wierdness going on for most of my childhood, but if there was a specific incident or series of incidents I don't remember it. I do know that my first concept of sex when I started thinking...

I kept completely silent about it right up until I reported it a year afterward. Most of the people I've told have been family, members of my Queer Straight Alliance (many of whom have been through similar situations, though some cope better than others), or the occasional person I have been...

Fight/freeze when I was a kid--my temper was on a hair trigger and I would get in physical fights with any kid who even slightly made fun of me, but I tended to go off on my own and immerse myself in solitary make believe in order to avoid other kids. I was terrified of adults though, and tended...

I joined the army when I was 19 years old. Right after I got out of BCT and was sent somewhere else for training, me and some other new soldiers were introduced to a male soldier who had been there a while and was assigned to show us around and teach us the rules, etc. He was very helpful...

I've been trying to get my sister to get out more, get a job, or even just stand up for herself for years, with basically no effect. I've confronted our parents myself about her and told them that I thought their treatment of her was unfair (though I've had to be very careful because I was...

Thank you for the link! I'm between schools right now so I won't have access to a school counselor until Fall Quarter starts. In general my experience with counselors has been that they address the immediate surface issues and consider me functioning for a couple consecutive weeks to signal then...

Hallo, I'm not good at introductions and don't really know what to say here that isn't on my profile. I guess the main reason I decided to look for a forum like this was that I've had symptoms of PTSD for about 6 years (and depression for literally as long as I can remember) but for a long time...