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For me, I guess it is mainly what Voltaire once said: “I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying...

Because we want to see what happens if we actually make it...

Turn to your inner child. Turn inwards. Talk to that kid, let it come to you, and let yourself trust that connection of yours. It's a painful procedure, but it’s ok. Take one step at a time. I know it’s hard for you to believe it right now, but you are not alone. You have each other.

Cutting feels great and that’s why it’s highly addictive since it is doing to your brain exactly what drugs do, but deep down that’s not what you really want to do. That’s what you think you want to do when the urge arrives. Let it pass; it was never meant to stay. Two reasons why we cut: -we...

That was the dark night of the soul you experienced; the abyss so many poets and painters and writers have tried numerous times to depict but also to warn us about. And yet, here you are. You made it! How did you manage to survive it?

My two cents: Flashbacks are like dreams. All the images of the event that you keep seeing, the feeling that you are partially or completely reliving what happened. It doesn’t matter if you are not seeing again in front of you the whole event; small fragments of it reappearing before your eyes...

Jesus, that’s terrible. Well, there are 3 ways to respond to stress and extreme fear: fight, flight or freeze. To be frozen is equal to be paralyzed and it sucks huge time. Think about it as if you were an animal and a predator was coming for you. You stop (freeze) because you need to evaluate...

:/ yeah, it might not be possible for it to go completely away. We will just have to carry it with us, and, perhaps to get the most out of it as we do. Exactly, at some point, dissociation becomes a choice. We become aware of it. And it can also become a challenge and a philosophical journey...

Hello, everyone! I've been reading your posts for a very long time now, but today is the day I decided to sign-up. Because now it's the time for me to finally share some things that I have never shared with anyone before. And I want to thank you, because though you didn't know, you have been...