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My favorite music is the Les Mis soundtrack. I took French in high school, and the teacher let us watch Les Mis in senior year. I was attracted to the dichotomy of an operatic musical that told real life of poor people. When I got a job, I bought the soundtrack on CD. I listened to it in bed...

Early

What a fascinating world is all this emotion. Just recently in therapy I accessed my heart for the first time in a meaningful way. It said it didn’t want to talk to me because I always ignore it. I’m the master of “facts over feelings.” I’m vigilant about falling prey to a subjective emotional...

Nice to find a prayer thread here! I pray for others on days I have the energy for it.

It’s funny what childhood hunger does to the body. You really do try to live without food. The good news is at least your body signals for food eventually. That’s a good sign it wants to eat. Listen closer and it will tell you more.

CPTSD here too. A lot of your symptoms mirror my own. I sure know about the mystery stomach pain, and the body’s resistance to medicine. Have you researched polyvagal theory? It’s helped me to understand my symptoms. It took me a decade to find things that work for me. And when I’m on the cusp...

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Unfortunately this is more common than you’d think. Find a teacher, school counselor, or safe adult you can tell. Trust me, most school counselors have seen this kind of thing. They can help you make a recovery plan, and they can support you if the guy resurfaces. Don’t hope it will just go...

You stand in your kitchen at night, staring spacelessly at the dishes in the dish drainer, asking yourself what it really means in the grand scheme of things if you put away the dishes.

Hello. Welcome to the forum. Sorry to hear about your trauma. You’re in the right place. This is the best site I’ve found for support. I also have CPTSD. You’ll find people here who get you.

When you text a friend “I feel like talking” then she calls you to talk, and you say, well my text was talking so I’m all talked out now.

I don't get migraines inside my head, but I get flare ups of the peripheral nerves outside the skull. They are painful to the touch. Ice packs on my head will bring it down.

Yes I've exhausted the medical options. Those were the doctors' first guesses. Magnesium and ginger are part of my daily regimen; they help.

It's okay to have a bad day! That's all it is, a bad day. You knew enough to come here and talk. You knew enough to see it was irrational. When you stop yourself from buying into it, you're already halfway out of it. You got this. ❤️

@Laceymae33 this article discusses how panic disorder symptoms originate differently from anxiety symptoms. Researchers tend to assume all outward signs of distress are anxiety, but some progress has been made to differentiate. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1540112/ Oh you're not offending...

From what I understand it's not "panic disorder" if it's clearly tied to an emotional trigger or experience. Like @enough described, panic disorder is a chronic persistent sense of unwellness in your nerves that makes no sense. You can't put your finger on why. Attacks occur with no emotional...

People think panic attacks escalate because the sufferer gets emotional. They think it's a state of emotional terror that manifests an ever-growing fight or flight response. Panic disorder doesn't work that way. During all of my attacks, I'm completely lucid, not scared, knowing full well it's...

I went to a psych testing center for my first consultation last week. They said they'd start with their "usual" first-visit questions. They were screening hard for ADHD. Asking about my focus, impulsiveness, school performance, etc. The guy seemed to assume it's why I came in. I got through to...

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Yeah it seems like all the mindfulness traces back to there. I have mixed results. I can use it to locate tension in my body, but it never relaxes me.

#2 is so true. The minute you locate a sensation in your body and try to study it, the feeling gets weaker.

Dang. It would never occur to me to get emotional in public. Hope that lady is okay.

I made a list of ten funny puns. I sent it to my friend hoping they would make her smile. No pun in ten did.

My body is permanently stiff from tension, so there’s no enjoying any sensual experience for me. It takes a LOT for my body to be moved.