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If you are going thru hell, keep going. Never, never, never give up. We are all worms. But I am a glow worm. All Winston Churchill.

Somatic therapy. Trauma is in the body, not in discussion of the event, and has to be released for relief of symptoms. Talk therapy only gave me understanding. Dissociation, hyper vigilance, etc. remained. Not so after Somatic Therapy. That has been my experience.

For sure you get alone time in committed relationships unless you are with someone who can't bear to be alone. I'd go nuts without alone time. Everyone needs it. Well if they are healthy, they do I think. When I was younger my problem was when I would get in a relationship, my alone time went...

She is an idiot. Forgive me, but geez...what ridiculous things she says. Time to go.

I wasn't as perceptive as you re: wondering if the meds were blocking feelings and progress. I quit taking them because the meds to make me sleep stopped working completely, and that meant the Concerta had to go because that pepped me up. Trust your instincts. If you can't tap emotions as you'd...

Yes, I came off 25 years on meds just fine. Concerta, Imipramine and Zyprexa. We did it S-L-O-W though. My healing accelerated 1000% after I came off everything completely because unbeknownst to me - the meds had kept my real feelings numb for all those years and created a false facsimile of...

I have heard Religion is for those afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for those who have been through hell. I identify with the latter. Accepting God as a Mystery and that I am Not-God and therefore cannot understand him works for me. There is a book called The Spirituality of...

I vote let go. For both of you. There was a saying that went around decades ago that I won't quote right, but the gist of it was to let go, to set free whoever you are holding onto, and if they don't come back, they were never yours to begin with. But if they do return, it was meant to be...

I sorry for your heart breaking. That is the worst feeling. I think you want to be with the person he appeared to be initially and you miss that person, but the reality of who he actually is is different. It is so hard to let go of the illusion. When you feel bad enough, you will. But you...

No, you sound really in touch! Good going!

When I was in burn out after a year of extreme sleep deprivation, I would feel disoriented, not know the day or season, start sentences and forget the point over and over and over, repeat myself endlessly and so on. Perhaps you are utterly exhausted. Sleep proved the cure for a lot of it. A lot...

Whatever you decide, trust your experience of reality.

Try somatic therapy. It has removed most of the trauma in my body and most of the discomfort. The trauma energy can be released. A good Somatic Therapist will help you. I got immediate relief and it continues.

I don't like the sound of him when you say you know he will yell and make you feel like crap. If this happened to my significant other, I would have compassion and wonder why they thought they couldn't come to me and be honest. I would ask myself why they were afraid, and why they were afraid of...

Talk therapy never did a thing for me as far as PTSD relief of symptoms are concerned. Somatic therapy has been fabulous in releasing trauma energy so I feel better. I am not singing "Happy" every day and clapping my hands, but some days I do. Just overall well being is terrific compared to the...

This T doesn't sound like they necessarily know what they are doing. Find a T who specializes in trauma and see what they think. If you feel like you are being tested, well, I am not sure what you mean. If you think your T is testing you, that would be nuts on their part. Totally nuts and a...

I think it is trauma energy. Maybe the original trauma, and it needs to be released. I get chest pain. Also crushing weight. A horrible hollowness below too, but it isn't there all the time - not to the nth degree anyway. No organic cause either. Somatic Therapy is helping. Also the following...

Feeling dark and oppressed on a beautiful sunny day. There is a kids' party on the large shared deck where I live and my inner kid(s) would like to join in and play. I need to look into something like a softball team I could join or something. Did weights to not feel so frozen and powerless...

New trauma brought old memories. The last couple years "Focusing" or felt sense in mindful meditation brought up old stuff.

I don't have bulimia but I have electrolyte trouble. Drink Gatorade when you know your system is off. It will rebalance you. Everyone else here has great advice.

I agree Gizmo that good can come out of the bad. I have had to find and create it. I used to wait for things to change, waiting for others and the world to do the magic, doing nothing myself. Now I know I have to take action, stand in my truth and create the good, turnaround the not so good as...

How awful Gizmo. They were the ones possessed by demons or the devil. I love how you yelled Scientology sucks and walked out. I didn't get pulled in myself when I was young though the Children of God were always trying to recruit because the demon run had a hold of me! But I remember reading...

Drained but peaceful.

Any kind of exercise diffuses the anger for me because it brings down the excess energy that can keep me up all night. It reduces the rage to a manageable state so that if I want to take action or speak, I am not an ineffectual raving lunatic. I bought a punching bag on a stand which is great...

Sounds hypnagogic if it's when falling asleep or coming out of sleep. I hallucinated after a year of severe sleep deprivation. It was awful. Catching up on sleep and lowering stress helped significantly.