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Oh, yea, exe number one was LATER diagnosed with border line personality disorder. They gave her a wide variety of pills for the symptom of the week, none of them worked and some of them were down right scary!! And coming off Prozac for her was a wild ride, comedic if not so dangerous. Most of...

Doctors have been frustrated with my refusal of meds for years. I have been diabetic for 15 years or so and have been med free for that, but I am taking steps. Diet and exercise. I also refused meds for pain, long term healing from a full body sprain I am recovered from, so I am not on methadone...

As one of my therapist re framed things for me, I have been the victim in every major relationship I have had in my life. So, years of therapy and introspection and working on me. I am better. I have stayed away from dating in order to not screw up any progress I have made. Last year, I met...

i am grateful my dad pulled thru his operation. He had knee surgery and came out.... a bit unbalanced. wacky, belligerent. I only got the bare minimum of information, I am largely estranged from my family... but limited information makes the imagination fill in the blanks with worst case...

The basics of both are in the book by Burns. Each chapter has the relevant stuff for a page or two and then the rest of the chapter is case study. I found the book very useful. and tf-cbt too!

Yes, ms Spock! That is a great book. I like the way it suggests daily goals and logs as a measure of progress to combat depression. It makes good sense. Not all cbt is the REAL cbt. I have not tread into somatic types of therapy, but I have heard it is great!

Interesting indeed! I had cbt at the va. It involved writing about the event and critiquing it for distortions. It was not only a once a week meeting, it was 6 days of writing and thinking about it for 10 min or so. Is that generally what cbt is? I have had therapy without home work before that...

I called dad. He had a bad reaction to drugs but they have cleared now. He is going to be fine, if that is a possible condition for a 88 year old... Thankful he is lucid and a bit crotchety, healthy for his age and starting pt tomorrow!

I am calm till I go off, and I go off big.It is mostly words, but I have had to go all physical, generally it is blistering and creative use of language. but body posture suggests we can go if you want to... I try not to be scary.

So what do I want from them? and since I am not now nor have I ever gotten "that", do I really need it? If I have never seen it does it exist? So the magic happy family is never going to exist. I really don't need the vibration my system feels when I am trying to be what they think I should be...

So, in the middle of a meltdown with my hex, I called my sister for some help. Dad is deranged after an operation, knee replacement. The prognosis is unknown. My family and I barely talk. My weird ass behavior is a big part of the problem. Most of them, not dad so much, were abusive or un...

anger takes my power away. so true. thats why she yanks my chain. I react predictably. that gives her power. great observation.

that is the mindfulness side. I found a way to feel me trigger sooner and at a reversible stage through mindfulness. works pretty well most the time, hex's excepted! maybe daughters too.....

meditation? mindfulness?

meds? ganja?

sorry, that was in poor taste

but I look GREAT! and she never lost that baby fat, or the other 100 lbs she put on. LOL. She looks pretty rediculus in the giant hamster ball I imagined her in rolling down the hill on meridian street near her house.... :rolleyes::joyful: ( Found the imogies)

i get that.takes me forever to spin down after I let myself get spun up.I was on the bike for an hour and a half and I am still not back.

got up still pissed after about 4 hours sleep. paced and groused. called out to my sister for help, dad's ill. at 88 that can be a big deal. did a 20 mile bike ride. went to the gym. groused a little. now bored. and grousy.

I don't have any helpful information except I over empathize too. I can't watch the news. I lower my head and bear my teeth when i see a bully picking on others. Complex PTSD here too! Maybe the nature of the beast. I worked at a veterinarian hospital in high school and impressed the vet. He...

with that, i think i can sleep!

okay, I didn't get it the first time you mentioned it, i think I am getting an idea..... It seems I may need to back it off a notch or two..... maybe the ball bearings could be golf balls, and we could give her a helmet, we don't want it over too soon...

Okay then, 2 inch ball bearings it is! This could work! (I think the water would slow the ball bearings, we don't have to have the water, right?)

can I shake up the snow globe and watch her tumble about, and then settle to the bottom to be buried by the snow? or maybe the snow can be hail? or is that too much....

When asked by her adult children why she hit the kids so much, she said she had not hit us enough. She does not really remember the incidents anymore. I don't think she will be hurting any more kids. My kids ran away pretty fast as I recall, that hurt her. I tried not to be amused.