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The only thing I have to say is.... what took you so long! Don't worry about the shakes. People will adapt, and things will be fine.

Mandolin

Here’s a fun we trauma survivors might enjoy… My therapist said I don’t articulate my emotions. Can’t say I’m surprised.

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Oh yes @Movingforward10 I hear you loud and clear. Why doesn’t anyone help me??? Uhhh nobody knows.

So on Wednesday I did a psych eval. It got me all discombobulated. I had to sit and drink cold water at the psych office before they let me drive home. Here I am a dizzy emotional mess telling the psychiatrist I often want to die... then I go out to my car, and a friend calls me, and I switch...

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Oh my dear you sound like so many young people in their 20s. You are not alone in this. There’s nothing wrong with where you are. Don’t worry about others. Life is not a competition. Especially at 28. It may sound silly, but it really is true. Where you end up at 50 or 60 is much more important...

There’s a phrase I learned that helped me in my search for virtue. “If you’re in bondage, you’re doing it wrong.” Love is patient, love is kind — love is not bondage.

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@Charbella the numbness was a later development after my round with neurology. By then they thought I was scamming for drugs. As you describe, I was calm and poker face on the outside, so my demeanor didn’t match my complaints. If I stay on my vitamins and do my daily calming stuff, the...

Saw a neurologist and ENT about the vertigo. They did expensive tests and said they can't find the cause. Saw a cardiologist about the palpitations. He did expensive tests and said he can't find a cause. Saw a gastro doctor about the digestion problems. More expensive tests, said he can't find...

I can’t count my number of mystery physical ailments.

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People certainly do use panic in a very loose sense. There isn’t any real hard line to mark when something is bad enough for panic, so people have varying levels of what counts as panic. I’ve had people tell me they relate to my attacks because they felt a little nervous. That said, delayed...

Three is the magic number

All I can tell you is what worked for me. I did a bunch of online searching with various keywords. I dug into the weeds of a dozen websites. Sometimes an exact match for your condition is impossible, so you at least find supportive people in a relevant world. Gotta start somewhere. A group...

It’s hard for us to say because you can’t go on websites alone. A therapist may list EMDR (or trauma in general) as one of their services, because they did a workshop on it and kinda know the gist of it. You may talk to the person and realize they never actually did it on a client. Word of...

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@jenny1978 I’ve learned it takes time, creativity, and perseverance to get anywhere with this condition. I’m currently in the process to build out a support system. As you’ve seen it can’t depend on one or two people.

When you’re at the store, and the checkout person approaches you to ask why you’ve been staring at the gum for five minutes.