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So I was thinking about this, and I'm curious to know where people would put the line between the two, or if there is a line even. I know there's the old U.N. definition, but it is highly vague and could almost be applied to any situation where someone in a position of power is causing pain. I...

I think it goes both ways really. For one thing, the idea that PTSD is only for soldiers is still pretty prevalent, so while someone might feel sympathy with someone who went to war, they might not feel sympathy with someone who suffered child abuse and do things like tell them to get over it or...

I've had something like this before, I think it's a well documented phenomenon that comes in a few forms but I can't remember what it's called. It's all based on that period between sleeping and waking, same place that things like sleep paralysis occur. I had it in the form of this recurring...

A bit of an older post I guess, but this really hit home. Every time my therapist says I'm a "survivor" it makes me cringe and feel like I'm sort of lessening the meaning of the word, like there's a sense she's just saying it to make me feel better and on the inside she thinks I'm weak. I know...

This is why I use Gentoo without any window manager or desktop environment ;)

I get that, but it's not quite what I meant. I more was referring to it when to a complete stranger often who they won't see again right during the introduction. Now apparently this does happen too, so I stand corrected, but saying it before dating someone does seem more common to me.

This is odd, but I'm not going to lie: Jake and Amir. It's a comedy webseries that is sadly over now, but there are hundreds of episodes and even watching one I've seen leaves me in stitches. It is a consistent source of happiness, and I really rarely get that sort of authentic laughter. I don't...

Oh yeah I didn't mean to imply that she was, just saying that I've never met someone who authentically talked about it really openly. It just strikes me as odd that someone could though I suppose it's fully possible.

Huh, I guess I could be wrong, I just assumed there was no way in hell someone could or would do that. I met someone like that, but long story short they turned out to be using it to manipulate and guilt everyone else to control everyone. I suppose I'm just surprised someone could do it so...

Something I was thinking about recently is this sort of cliche about the "tough person with a troubled past" thing, where someone in a movie or show will start going on about their past as a sort of exposition for character development. I'm sure you know the kind of thing, someone saying in a...

Not sure it only occurred around him, but at least the tantrums and destructiveness did. I was still argumentative and a class clown at school, but the anger wasn't really there, or if it was it only got to the point of a raised voice and not anything else. The longer I'm away from him the more...

I don't know, maybe. It just doesn't appeal to me somehow, I accept that might change as I get older though. I might be more into fostering at some point, I feel like I'd be making a bit more of a positive change and adoption could be an option. This would all be years down the road though, I'm...

Well we can't all be successes at everything unfortunately, though in terms of methods I feel like that would be generally good. I can see where she's coming from so maybe good to use in a bit of moderation, but I feel in general it would teach empathy. I don't plan on having children, but if I...

Working on that honestly, I don't really know. There are just so many factors, I'm not sure I can come up with one firm answer. Like I think yelling could be abuse if it happens really excessively, but a little bit is definitely not, so to actually know I'd have to measure the frequency, length...

I suppose so, but I think it's more about the time frame. No one deserves that out of the blue (I'm assuming the lead up to this wasn't an argument where you were being equally emotionally abusive to him), and in a situation like that I think it's totally normal and not unethical to just punch...

God that's a f*cked up thing to say, it seems the most justifiable of all of them by far. Maybe the other ones could have been mistakes but there's no reason for someone to say that other than causing harm, and someone who's deliberately causing emotional pain shouldn't really be surprised if...

As someone else said, it seems more that she meant "we might as well just be friends if we don't have a good therapeutic relationship". I doubt it was an honest offer to just become friends, more trying to say that the way they are talking now is more like friends should be than a therapist/patient.

My therapist said almost the exact same thing honestly, though it was in response to how I wasn't coming in with enough goals in mind for the session. I don't think it's meant to be threatening, and she probably doesn't honestly mean to quit, it's just sort of a nudge to work on certain things...

I'm surprised I haven't heard about that before, I mean I've seen it mentioned in passing but not really looked into it. That's exactly what it is though, feeling shame for things that make no sense, like posting this, looking up stuff about it on google, even thinking about it as actually...

So I posted another thread quite recently (link here https://www.myptsd.com/threads/is-this-as-bad-as-i-think-it-is.62032/) and I mentioned that there was something else I wanted to post about another time, and though it was a pretty recent thread I don't see the point in waiting for some...

Yeah, I was on reddit for a while and I think this is better because it's a smaller community. I'm very paranoid of someone knowing who I am and basically calling me a pussy for not just getting over it and telling everyone else how weak I am too, and here it seems unlikely for that to happen...

So I'm new here, hopefully I'm not breaching some rule of etiquette in my post, I was originally going to post about two things, but this really got long and maybe the other one deserves its own post some other time. My school at the time was a sort of military style reform school which...