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I have been thinking about the gesture I use. It also has a degree of protection in the way you cross your arms but it doesn't quite look like it as when you cross your arms low. I very much feel like protecting myself right now.

I have also tried the calming gesture and it is surprisingly helpful. It is a simple thing I have done without thinking in the past sometimes when very upset by something. For me it is just a matter of crossing my arms in front of me with each hand on a shoulder and it feels nice and soothing...

Still thinking on this. Not sure which way to go. Yesterday was incredibly depressing. I got my share of the money for the house we used to live in and it is the first time I ever felt like burning a check with so many digits in it. The very last thing I want is that money. It is a reminder of...

"I would say that even it the problem is permanent, we should still not take a final solution to the problem, but rather learn to live in spite of it, and triumph over it." I agree. But it can be very difficult to see that solution, as so many people very unfortunately demonstrate. Seeing the...

It is something I have been wondering for nine months now. I was told when young that taking you own life is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. But what about when the problem is permanent? Then where does that solution lie? I am not suicidal and never will be for two main reasons...

Quite a few years ago I built a very special "work space" for sitting at my computers. The chair is a very good recliner with leather seat. I cover that with a heated electric blanket and over that is a folded comforter with a thin layer of memory foam. This is the only place that I can sit...

I had to quit all of the same things because of my fibromyalgia. Horses, canoe and looking after yard and field all not possible any more. I have had the pain for so many years it only really bothers me much when it gets really strong. It set in about 40 years ago, maybe about six years or so...

That sounds interesting. I will ask the Reverend about that. He is a really good person and he even happens to be a retired doctor. That is a very good combination for me. I also have a therapist that is highly Christian and it was me that asked him, he does not push it at all. But now we can...

I decided to slightly change my screen name. It is the same name in Russian. I started to think it maybe isn't such a good idea to use my real name for somebody in particular to google so easily. Interesting thread and the concept is also interesting. I have been going to weekly evening...

Embarrassment is a strong type of stress though. So is just worrying about having the need. I have skipped church for two weeks for that very reason. The Harvoni somehow makes a lot of gas and farting in the church during a service isn't exactly a pleasant idea. It isn't a way to impress peope...

I should mention that the main reason I do not have many friends (except at the church) is because I intend to move in another six months and I don't want to make and then soon break friendships. That would hurt others and myself.

Nice to hear that it may have direct benefits. There is a lot that isn't yet known other than the simple fact that humans are not intended to be grass eaters. We don't have enough stomachs. Incidentally, I have been truly gluten free since the late 80's, but I have real Celiac disease. Even a...

There is a connection between ovulation and the production of oxytocin. That then acts in the Corpus Luteum in the ovary which then produces Prostoglandin. Prostoglandin then affects the trigeminal nerves and causes dilation of the smooth muscles of the cranial arteries. That is a direct...

That is where I now find myself. After having been married for 44 years I am now living alone with very few people that ever visit. It has been that way now since a little over half a year. I do not like it at all. While I have plenty of things to occupy my time I just don't like being alone...

It is possible to be much too aware of your body, which is how I am. One of my problems is that I have a special kind of tinnitus known as Somatic Tinnitus. I "hear" this very high sort of electronic "non-sound" that keeps perfect time with my heart. So, whether I want to or not, I always know...

I tend to agree with that some, but maybe not that high. There are a lot of people that think along the lines "well, if God does exist I should be covered", so they attend church. Personally, I truly do believe in God. He brought me back to life when I was very far along that road to true death...

Asperger's Syndrome is extremely common. Us Aspies tend to think the the "normies" are the odd ones. They just call themselves the "normals" because there are more of them than us. About 1/3 of engineers are confirmed Asperger types and on average among Aspies they/we have a higher IQ than...

Sounds to me you are an Aspie type like me. Us Asperger people don't do well with the social niceties that people use to tell each other "white" lies. Like when somebody asks you "How are you?" and we tell them the truth. They don't know how to deal with that, it throws them totally off kilter...

That is the truth. Science and God are entirely unconnected and will remain that way. Science does not and cannot prove anything about belief of any sort. People very commonly confuse belief with knowledge. One is free to believe anything at all, knowledge is that which is available to all...

One thing that I have been learning at this new church is about something that I was told not to do when I was young. I was baptised in a very conservative denomination that believes it is wrong to pray for yourself. I was taught that one should only pray for others and that praying for yourself...

OK, thanks. I see now I was very confused.

I am not following what you mean by "your posts #6-9".

My abuse was finally stopped when my parents divorced. I was 16 and able to leave what was no longer a home at that age because in California at that time it was age sixteen when you could leave and the police would no longer return you to whomever was your "parent". When I was free from abuse I...

Yes, I agree with that. In my case though I simply could not decide if there would be any benefit in trying to find out more from myself. I have not thought so in the past but I also have not been with a therapist in the past since I was 16. When I was 16 I spent about six months in intensive...

There isn't much to say about my "death experience". No fancy lights in the tunnel sort of thing, nothing at all other than seeming to fall asleep and then awaken some time later. The only clue to what really happened was stored on a machine for the doctors to find later. What actually happened...